Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

tween the Bolshevlk leaders and the
German general staff, OF which agree
ment a photograph is included in the
series as document No. 8.
! II is dated October. 1917. II is from
a division of the German general staff,
II is addressed to the council of the
Peoples commissars of which Lenine
and Trotzky were the heads. 1t be-
gins: an accordance with the agree
ment which took place in kronstadt,
in July OF the present year, between
officials OF Our general staff and lead
ers of the Russian revolutionary army
and democracy, Messrs. Lenine and
Trotzky, Rasolnikov and Dybanko,
the Russian division of our general
staff operating in Finland is ordering
TO Pctrograd officers for the disposal
of the information department OF the
staff" Among the officers named
are Major Lubert, whose cipher sigma
ture is given as it appears on the two
surrendered German circulars men-
toned above document No. 81, and
Lieutenant Hartwig, whose cipher
signature is given as it appears on
the receipt for the two circulars. And
an Endorsement on this letter from
the German general staff assigned to
Petrograd had appeared before the
military revolutionary committee" and
had agreed on conditions with regard
to their mutual activities"
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What their mutual activities"
were to be is sufficiently indicated by
document No. 7, which is a photo
graph of a letter signed in cipher by
this Major Lubert and his adjutant,
Lieutenant Hartwig. They notify the
Bolshevik leaders on January IL. 1918,
that by order of the German general
staff" the German intelligence section
''has informed us of the names and
characteristics Of the main candidates
for reelection" to the Russian Boil
shevik central executive committee"
and "the general staff orders us to in
sist on the election Of the following
people" They add list of Russian
leaders satisfactory to the German
general staff. The list is headed by
Trotzkys and Lenine. They were
elected, and the rest of the present
Bolshevik executive committee were
chosen from the same German list.
Document No. % gives evidence of
the quid pro quo. 1t is photograph
Of letter from the president of the
German Imperial bank to the Boil
shevik commissar OF foreign affairs,
1t is marked very secret" dated
January 8, 1918. 1t says:
Information has today been re-
ceived by me from Stockholm that
100000 rubles of gold have been
transferred to be lit at the disposal
of the Peoples commissars," which
is the title of the Bolshevik 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 revolutionary troops) and
agitato.s in the country. The imper,
ial German government considers it
appropriate to remind the soviet of
Peoples commissars of the necessity
of increasing propaganda in the coun-
try as the antagonistic attitude of the
South of Russia and Siberia to the
existing RUSSIA government is
troubling the German government"
| Huge Sums Sent.
| Four days later the same president
OF the German Imperial bank sent
another 100000 rubles to, the same
| address to provide for the sending of
4 a Russian revolutionary leader to
| Vladivostok to get possession of the
Japanese and American war mater
ials" at that port, and il necessary
to destroy them. A photograph OF
this detter is given as document No
9. There were earlier payments, but
. probably none later than these. None
was necessary. By this time the loot
of an empire lay open to the Boil.
sheviks and the Germans.
Most significant OF all are two pho.
tographs of further communication:
from the German Imperial bank
! given as documents No. and No
, I'll. One is a letter addressed to tht
chairman ofNthe Council of People:
( commissars and the other is the res
. olution of conference of representa-
tives of the German commercial
! banks received by the chairman o
: the Bolshevik central executive com
: mittee and Endorsed by his secretary
Together they give a complete snyop
: sis Of the terms on which Germany
! intends to have control of all Rus
{ sian industries.
: For five years from the signing o
peace, English, French, and Ameri
E can capital and Russia are to be ban
|, ished," and mot to be allowed in tn,
: following industries: Coal, metallur
! gical, machine building, oil chemica
| and pharmaceutical" These indus
a triels are to be developed under tn,
] lcontrol of a supreme advisory organ
] consisting of 10 Russian specialists
10 from German industrial organiza
Al tons and the German and Austrian
a banks. Germany and Austria are I,
!, enjoy the unlimited privilege o
i sending mechanics and qualified work
a men into Russia" "All other foreigl
e mechanics and workmen are not {,
{ be allowed to enter at all" for fiv
!. years after the conclusion of peac
S between Russia and Germany. Priv
: ate banks in Russia arise only witt
I the consent Of the Union Of German
: and Austrian banks" And so forth
e Conspiracy Barred.
Aad this conspiracy between Ger
imam imperial capitalism and the pre-
: tended Russian Reds is Endorsed b,
& a. Bolshevik leader, with the recon
Ell mendation that it should be 'takel
I under Amusement" and the groun
: prepared in the soviet of the work
G mems and soldiers deputies in cas-
: the council of Peoples commissar
will not accede to these requests.
Various details of the conspirac
: between the Boishevik leaders an
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