Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-15

rrotsky surrender to the German Sc
cret service in Petrograd on ordes
of "the representatives OF the Gef-
man general staff in Petrograd
formity with a working agreement
between the bolsheytk leaders ano
aEreefnent q photograph Is included
in the series as document NO. 0.
Dated October, 1917. =, !.
It is dated October, 1917. It is from
a division of the German general
staff. 1t is addressed to tho council
of the peoples commissars, Of which
Lenin and Trotsky were the heads,
1t begins: 'In accordance with the
agreement which took place in
Kronstadt, in July of the present
year, between officials of our gen
eral staff and leaders of the Hussian
Messrs. Lenin and Trotsky, Rasoini-
kov and Dybenko. the Russian d1v1-
sion of our general staff operating In
Finland is ordering to Petrograd OF
ficers for the disposal Of the infor.
nation department na,oal OF dhe sra stA Mai
Luberts, whose cipher signature is
given as it appears on the two sur
rendered German circulars mentioned
above Document No. -. and Lieut..
Hartwig, whose cipher signature 1s
given as it appears on the receipt for
the two circulars. And an indorse-
ment on this letter from the German
officers assigned to Petrograd had
appeared before the military revo-
lutionary committee" and had agreed
on conditions with regard to their
mutual activities"
Dictated Candidates.
What their mutual activities" were
ument No. Z. which is a photograph
of a letter signed in cipher by this
Mai. Luberts and his adjutant. Lieut.
Hartwig, They notify the bolshevik
leaders, on January IL, 1918. that 'by
order Of the German general staff" the
German intelligence section has in
formed us of the names and the
characteristics of the main candidates
for reelection to the Russian boil
shevik central executive commit
tee" and ''the general staff orders US
to insist on the election of the fol-
lowing people," They add a list of
Russian leaders satisfactory to the
headed by Trotsky and Lenin. They
were elected. and the rest Of the pres
end bolshevik executive committee
were chosen from the same German
list
Boodle-1very Secret"
Document No. 2s gives evidence of
the quid pro quo. 1t Is a photograph
of a letter from the president Of the
vik commissar of foreign affairs. 1t is
marked Very secret" and dated jan
uary 8, 1918. It says: Information
has today been received by me from
Stockholm that 50.0O0,000 rubles of
gold have been transferred to be put
missars," which is the title Of the boil
shevik 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 (the bolshevik revolution
country. The imperial government
considers it appropriate to remind the
soviet Of peoples commissars Of the
necessity of increasing propaganda
in the country, as the antagonistic at
titude Of the south Of Russia and ST.
ernment is troubling the German gov
ernment."
Planned Munition Seizure.
Four days later the Same president
OF the German Imperial Bank sent
another 100000 roubles to the same
address to provide for the sending
of q Russian revolutionary leader to
vladivostok to get possession of the
japanese and American war mate
rails" at that port. and. II necessary,
to destroy them. A photograph Of his
letter is given as document No. 8.
There were earlier payments, but
probably none later than these. None
was necessary. BY this time the loot
of an empire lay open to tho boil
sheviki-and the Germans.
Most significant Of all are two pho
tographs of further communications
from the German Imperial Bank,
given as documents Nos. 10 and IL.
Ono is q letter addressed to the chair
man of the council OF peoples COM
missars ana the other Is the '.resolu-
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