Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-09-19
LEVINE AND
TROTzkY PAID
GERMAN AGENTS
BoIshevik Revolution Directed by
German General staff and Fl
nanced by Imperial Bank

Proofs removing any doubts that
Lenine and Trotzky, the bolshevik
leaders of Russia, are paid German
agents-if indeed any doubts remain
are laid before the world by the
United States government in the
first installment Of an amazing series
Of official documents disclosed through
the committee on public information
at Washington.
Long Before Serbian Assassination
Secured in Russia by American
agents, these documents not only show
how the German government, through
it's imperial bank, paid it's gold to Lee
nine, Trotzky, and their immediate
associates to betray Russia into de-
sorting her allies, but give added
proofs, if any be necessary, that Ger
many had perfected her plans for
war Of conquest long before the as
sassinations at Sarevejo, which, as
the world is now convinced, convent
entity furnished her pretext.
Aiming at America Early
These documents further show that
before the world war was four months
old, and more than two years before
the United States was drawn into it,
Germany already was setting about
her plans to "mObolize destructive
agents and observers" to cause explo-
sions, strikes and outrages in this
country, and planned the employment
of anarchists and escaped criminals"
for the purpose.
Almost ranking in their sensational
nature with the notorious Zimmerman
note proposing war by Mexico and
Japan upon the United States, which
was first given to the world through
the Associated Press, these docu-
ments lay bare new strata of Prussian
intrigue, a new view of the workings
of kultur to disrupt the allies stand
ing between the world and kaiserism.
They disclose a new story Of human
treachery for gold which might almost
we'll be described without sacrilege
as placing its perpetrators on a ped
estal with Judas and his thirty pieces
Of silver
The intrigue appears to have been
carried down to the last detail OF ar
rangement with typical German sys-
TEN.
Traitors Lenne and Trotzky
Not only. do the disclosures prove
that Lenine, Trotzky and their band
are paid German agents. They show
that the bolshevik revolution, which
threw Russia into such orgy Of muir
der and excuses as the world seldom
has seen, actually was arranged by
the German general staff. They show
how the paid agents Of Germany be-
trayed Russia at the Brest-IitOvsk
peace" conference; how German
staff officers secretly have been re-
ceived by the bolsheviki as military
advisers; how they have acted as
spies upon the embassies of the ma
tions with which Russia was allied or
at peace, how they effectually have
directed the bolshevik foreign, do
nestle and economic policy wholly IN
the interest of Germany and the
shame and degradation of Russia.
They show how a picked German
commander was detailed to defend
Petrograd against the German army
and an extent of German intrigue ana
domination almost beyond the realm
of imagination.
"Comrades" All
Originals of documents, photographs
of originals and typewriter circulars,
some of them marked very secret"
or private" and many of them bear
ing the annotatiOns ola the bolsheV1k
leaders themselves; some OF them
containing references to "Comrade
Trotzky" or "Comrade Lenine," COM
prise the damning record. Some OF
the originals, it is shown, although
deposited in the secret archives OF the
bolsheviki, were required to be re-
turned later to representatives OF the
German general staff in Petrograd
that they might be destroyed. But
evidence of them remained in the fab
rio of roguery, and into the vacancies
they fit perfectly. The bolshevik lead
ers themselves informed their "com-
rades'' that the German government
had required the return of the order
of the German imperial bank depos-
iting 50,OOO,O 600 gold rubles in a Stock
holm bank for Lenine and TrotZky,
an that at the same time the accounts
of the bank had been audited to
conceal the payments.