The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-22
ANOTH HER CONVINCING
LINK IN HUN PLOT
To OVERRUN WORLD
BEGAN WORK EVEN BEFORE
EXCUSE FOR IT
DEVELOPED.

Washington, Sept. 2s,-\nother
convincing link in the proof that
Germany was preparing to start a
war OF world conquest at least six
weeks before the excuse for it was
offered by the assassination OF the
Austrian heir apparent at Sarajevo
concludes the amazing series of dis
closures which the American gov
ernment 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
evidence removing any doubt that
may have existed that the Russian
Bolsheviki government, headed by
Lenine and Trotzky, is a tool OF the
imperial German government.
One of these is an original circular
from the German general staff dated
June 9, 1914, directing that all in
dustrial concerns be notified to open
their secret instructions for indus
II Idl lIODllILdilOll. .NilOlllCl. udltu
November 20, 1914, is from the Ger
man naval general staff and reveals
that within four months alter hos
tiiities began in Europe, obstruction
agents" were ordered TO Canada and
the United States to hire anarchists
and escaped criminals for the bomb
plots and work OF terror which final
ly played a part in drawing the Unit
ed States into the war
Remarkable Circulars.
In addition to this authenticated
evidence, Edgar Sisson who OBJ
tained the papers for the committee
on public information. offers re-
markable group OF circulars put out
in Russian text at Petrograd last
winter purporting to be copies OF
documents taken from the archives
oa the counter-espionage bureau OF
the kerensky government, supple
fDensd by some from the files OF the
same bureau before the fall of the
crar. Some OF this matter has been
Published in France and in this
country.
The circulars tell OF German ar
rangementS six months before The
outbreak OF war for the establish
ment OF the financial agencies in
bordering neutral countries which
later furnished the money for the
operations of the bolshcviki OF or
ders to German banks to establish
close and secret relations with
American and Finnish banks OF the
launching of revolutionary propa-
ganda against The czar's government
in Russia as early as November
1914, and OF instructions to Ger
man diplomats in all neutral coun-
tries to cooperate with agencies set
up in those countries for stirring up
social unrest, strikes and sentiments
against war within enemy states.
Scheidemann's Name.
The name OF Scheidemann. the
German socialist leader, already
mentioned as involved in the deal
ngs of the German government with
bolsheviki, appears at attached to
one Of the unauthenticated docu-
ments. 1t is note announcing
that one hundred and fifty thousand
krone have been placed to the cred
it OF Russian newspaper and ask
ing that NorwaertS (the name of a
Schaidemann' organ at Berlin) be
advised OF what appeared nGhe sub
sidized journal.
An appendix to the concluding in
stallment is what purports TO be
transcript OF a unique telegrap phc
conversation betdeen Tchitcherin. /.
now bolshevik foreign minister at
Petrograd, and Trotzky at Brest-
Litovsk last February few DAYS be- /.
fore Trotzky made his notorious
mo peace-no war" play Thitcherin
is quoted as promising that a sepa-
rate peace by Russia would not cause
4 rupture with the allies and saving
that England and America are play
n fn tal "