New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

employment OF anarchists and cScapcu
criminals for the purpose.
ut is these damning proofs Of Ger
man conspiracy against the nations Of
Europe in June, 1914, and against the
United States in November, 19l4-it is
these that Lcninc and Trotzky sur
rendered to the German Secret Service
in Petrograd on order Of the repre-
sentatves Of the German General Staff
in Pctrograd'
Had Agreed on Return
"And they surrender them in CON
cormity with q working agreement be-
tween the Bolshevik leaders and the
German General staff, Of which agree
ment photograph is included in the
series as Document No. B.
alt is dated October, 1917. 1t is
from division of the German General
staff. 1t is addressed to the Council Of
the Peoples Commissars, Of which Lc
nine and Trotzky were the heads 1t
begins: In accordance with the agree
ment which took place in Kronstadt, in
July Of the present year, between Off
cials of our General Staff and leaders
Of the Russian revolutionary army and
democracy, Messrs. Lenine and Trotzky,
Basolnikov and Dybenko, the Russian
division Of our General Staff operating
in Finland is ordering to PetroGrad Of
ticers for the disposal of the informa
ton department of the staff Among
the officers named are Major Lubert,
whose cipher signature is given as it
appears on the two surrendered Ger
man circulars mentioned above (Docu-
ment No. 81, and Lieutenant Hartwg,
appears on the receipt for the two cir
culars. And an Endorsement on this
letter from the German General Staff
records that the German officers as
signed to Petrograd had appeared be
fore the military revolutionary commit
tee and had agreed on conditions with
regard to their mutual activities.'
Elections Are Dictated
"What their mutual activities were
to be is sufficiently indicated by Docu-
ment No. 7 which is photograph Of
a letter signed in cipher by this Major
Lubert and his adjutant, Lieutenant
Hartwig. They notify the Bolshevik
leaders, on January -, 1918, that by
order Of the German General Staff the
German intelligence section has in
formed us of the names and the charac-
teristics Of the main candidates for re-
election to the Russian Bolshevik CEN
trail executive committee and the Gen
cral staff orders us to insist on the
election of the following people, They
add list of Russian leaders satisfac-
tory to the German General Staff. The
list is headed by Trotzky and Leninc.
They were elected, and the rest of the
present Bolshevik executive committee
were chosen from the same German
list
Document No. 2S gives evidence of
the Quid pro quo 1T is a photocraph
OF letter from the president of the
German Imperial Bank to the Bolshe-
vlk Commissar Of Foreign Affairs. 1t
is marked very secret and dated jan
uary 8, 1918. 1t says: Information
has to-day been received by nc from
Stockholm that 50,OO0,0O0 rublcs of
gold have been transferred to be nut
at the disposal of the Peoples Commits
sars. which is the title of the Bolshe-
Vlk leaders. This credit, the letter
continues, has been supplied to the
Russian government in order to cover
the cost of the keep of the Red Guards
(thc Boshevik revolutionary troops)
and agitators i'll the country. The i'm
perial government considers il appro-
pirate TO remind the Soviet of people's
Commissars Of the necessitv.of incroas-
ing propaganda in the country, as the
antagonistic attitude of the south of
Russia and Siberia to the existing
(Russian) government is troubling the
German government
United States Supplies Aimed At
"Four days later the same president
OF the German Imperial Bank sent an
other 10000 rublcs to the same ad-
dress TO provide for the sending of a
Russian revolutionary leader to Nlad-
Vostok to get possession Of the Jap
anese and American war materials at
that port and, if necessary, to destroy
them A photograph of his letter is
given as Document No. o
"Thcre were earlier payments, but
probably none later than these None
was necessary. By this time the loot
of an empire lay open to the Bolsheviki
and the Germans.
"Most significant of all arc two
photographs Of further communications
from the German Imperial Bank, given
as Documents Nos. 10 and IL. One is
a letter addressed to the chairman of
the Council Of Peoples Commissars
and the other is the resolution of con.
ference of representatives Of the Ger
man commercial banks received by the
chairman Of the Bolshcvik central OK
ecutivc committee and indorsod by his
secretary. Together they give COM
plctc synopsis of the terms on which
Germany intends to have control Of all
Russian industricsm