Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-17

cated Joffe in the letter of BOlshevik acceptance of the German compact, again stands forth for what he is, the spokesman, after Lenin, in all mat ters of supreme importance to Ger many.
 Have photograph of the joint letter Document No. Ger. General Staff
 Division No. SIS, Nov. 19)
 To the Council of Peoples Commis
 sars:
 This is 10 advise you that the fol lowing persons have been put at the disposal of the Russian government as military advisers Major Erich, Ma jor Bode, Major Bass, Major Zimmer- man, Major finders. Lieut.. Haase, Lieut.. Klein and Lieut. Breitz.
 These officers will choose a cadre of the most suitable officers from the list of our prisoners, who will like wise be at the disposal of the Rus sian government, as was agreed at the conference in Stockholm when Lenin, ZinoYIeff and others. were travelling lthTOugl, 10 Russia
 Head Ut the Russian SeetieH General
 Staff O. Rausch; Adjutant, U. NOTE-Major finders took the Rus sian name of RubakOv and Major Er- | ich the Russian name of Egorov. Le- nin-and Zinovieff passed through Ger many and Stockholm together Have photograph of letter.
 Document No. 7.-(G. c. s. Nachrich- ten Bureau, Section R., Jan. 12. It 191S) -~t
 ] lnI Confidential ---..."-
 FoTO the Commissar of Foreign Af-
 fairs:
 By the order of the local depart rrEnt of the 'ierms q general staff. the nte lligence section has informed us of -h" names and the characteristics Of he main candidates for the re Alectiur of the central eKecudye conmttee | The general staff orders us to insist on the election of the following peO- pie: Trotsky, Lenin, Zinovieff. Ram eneff, JOffe, Sverdiov, LunachOrski, Kollontai, Fabrizius, MaTtov, SteklOv. Golman. Frunze, Lander. Milk, Pre- cbrajenski, SOllers. Studer, Golberg. Avanesov. Volodarski. RaskolnikOv, Stuchka. Peters and Neubet Please inform the president of the council Of the general staff's wish.
 Head of the Department, Agasfer; Ad-
 jutant, Henrich.
 NOTE-The inducements are, Copy handed to chairman council of Workers and soldiers deputies. N. 956." Deliver to Comrade Zinovieff and to secret department" Signature iilegible Jan. F. Russian calendar, fell in the early part of the week of the allRussian soviet convention in Petrograd, the week after the forcible dissolution of the constituent assem- blv. The election came at the end of the week, and was a perfunctoTy re- election of practically the whole for mer executive committee of cOmmis- sars. Lacking the exact list, 1 never theless can state that the present ex- ecutive committee was drafted from this group. The name there. surpris- ing to me, Is that of MartOv. the lead CT of the Menshiviks, though it is my recollection that this party of OppO- sition was allowed representation.
 Martov is an able writer, was asso- ciated with Trotsky in his Paris jour nalistic venture but was supposed to have split with him in Russia The evidence that he is still agreeable to Germany is pertient. Mme KOllOntai, the only woman on this list, was the commissar O. public welfare. She was sent abroad for foreign propaganda in February, but did not get beyond Scan- dinavia. and later returned to Russia. T Kameneff, who went out of Russia with KOllantai, also sought to return. but was arrested by the Finnish White 4 guards (not the GeTmans), on the Aland islands. and his release was the subject Of negotiations. He is TrOt- sky's hrother-in-law. SverdiOv was temporary chairman of the all-Rus-