Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-21
FURTHER PROOF THAT
 GERMANY PLANNED WAR

Washington, Sept 2O-Another con- Fincing hnk in the proOt that Ger many was preparing to start war Of world conquest at least six weeks hefore the excuse for it was offered by the assassination of the Austrian heir apparent at Sarajevo, concludes the amazing series of disclosures which the American government has given to the public through secret documents brought out of Russia.
 Two authenticated documents are included in the final chapter of the story which began a week ago with may have existed at the Russian Bolsheviki government, headed by Be- nine and TIotzky. is a tool of the Inn perial German government. One Of these is an original circular from the German general staff dated June 9, 1914 directing that all industrial con- cerns be notified to open tLeir secret instructions for industrial mobiliza- ton. Another dated November 20, 1914, is from the German navar gen. eral staff. and reveals that within four months after hostihties began in Flu rope destruction agents" were or dered to Canada and the United States to hire anarchists and escaped crimi-
 
 terror which finally played part in drawing the United States into the war
 In addition to this authenticated evidence, Edgar Sisson, who obtained the papers for the committee on pup- lie information, offers a remarkable group of circulars put in Russian text at Petrograd last winter purporting 10 be copies of documents taken from the archives of the counter espionage bureau of the Kerensky government, supplemented by some from the files cf the same bureau before the fall of the czar. Some of this matter has been published previously in France and in this country. The circulars tell of German arrangements six months before the outbreak of war for the establishment of the financial agencies in bordering neutral countries which later furnished the money for the operations of the Bosheviki; oi orders to German banks to establish close and secret relations With Ameri- can and Finnish banks: of, the launch ing of revolutionary propaganda against the czar's government in Rus sia as early as November. 1914. and o1 instructions to German diplomats 1T all neutral countries to cooperate witf agencies set up in those countries fol stirring up social unrest, strikes and sentiment against war, within the enc. my states.
 The name of Scheidemann, the Ger man socialist leader. already mention sd as involved in the dealings of the German government with Bolsheviki appears attached to one of the unau thenticated documents. 1t is a nott announcing that one hundred and fiji ty thousand kroners have been placed 10 the credit of a Russian newspaper and asking that Vorwaerts (the namt of Scheidemann's organ at Berlin) b. advised of what appeared in the sub s!dized journal
 An appendix to the concluding in stallment Is what purports to be ; transcript of a unique telegraphic con versation between Tchitcherfn, nov Bolshevik foreig nminisJre at Petro grad, and Trotzky, at Brest-Litovsl last February a few days before Trot zky made his notorious mo peace no war" play. Tchitcherin is quoted as promising that separate peac by which Russia would not cause rupture with the allies and saying tha England and America are playing u to. Us separately"