The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
STARTLING PROOF ' OF SENSATIONAL GERMAN PLOTS IN RUSSIA ARE PARED Both Lenine and Trotzky Are Paid German Agents,
 Hired to Betray
 Russia
PLANS MADE IN THE THE UNITED STATES
 FOUR YEARS AGO
New View of the Works of Hun Kulture Laid Bare by Committee on Public Information in
 Documents Secured
 in Russia
lBy Associnted rre..l


 Washington. September 1f.-tBy As-
 sooisted Press. )--Proofs removing any
 doubts that Lenine and Trotzky, the
 bolsheviki leaders. are paid German
 agents--if indeed any doubts remain
 are laid before the world today by the
 United States government in the first
 installment of an amazing series of
 official documents disclosed through
 the Committee on Public Information. Secured In Russia by American agents. these documents not only show
 how the German government. through its imperial bank, paid its gold to
 Lenine, Trotzky and their immediate
 associates to betray Russia into de- serting her allies, but give added
 proofs, If any be necessary. that Ger
 many had perfected her plans for .
 war of world conquest. long before the
 assassinations at Sarevejo. which, as
 the world now is convinced, conve- niently furnished her pretext
 These documents further show that
 before the world war was foar months old, and more than two years before
 the United States was drawn into 1t, Germany already was setting afoot nef plans to mobilize destructive agents
 and observers" to cause explosions strikes and outrages in this country, 1 and planned the employment of 'san- archists and escaped criminals' for the purpose.
 DOCUMENTS SENSATIONAL Almost ranking in their sensational nature with the notorious Zimmerman
 note. proposing war by Mexico and Japan upon the United States, which was first given to the world through the Associated Press, these documents q n c rtvnf f1 ..f prx. -;~s. t.. trigue. new view of the workings of kultur to disrupt the allies. standing between the world and Kaiserfsm They disclose new story of human treachery for gold which might almost we'll be described without sacrilege, as placing it's perpetrators on a pe- destal with Judas and the 30 pieces of silver.
 The intrigue appears to have been carried down to the last detail of arr | ransement with typical German sys- tenn
 It will be revealed completely In a series of seven articles furnished by the committee on public information Tor publication each morning until the series is complete. Not only do the 1 disclosures prove that Lenine. Trotsky and their band are paid German i agents They show that the bolshs- i wiki revolution which threw Russia into such an orgy of murder and Gx-
 cesses as the world seldom has seen ! actually was arranged by the German I general staff.
 HUNS DIRECT POLICY They show how the paid agents of Germany betrayed Russia at the Brest- l Litovsk peace" conferences; how Gar man staff officers secretly have besn l received by the bolsheviki as military advisers; how they have acted as spias upon embassies of the nations with which Russia was allied or at peace. | how they effectually have directed the 1 bolsheviki foreign, domestic and eco homie policy wholly in the interest of Germany and the shame and degrada- tion of Russia. They show how picked German commander was de- !, tailed to defend" Peyrograd against the German army and an extent of German intrigue and domination af- most beyond the realm of imagination orisinais of documents, photographs or originals and typewriter circulars. some of them marked "very secret or 'private"sand many of them bearing the annotations of the bolsheyiki leaa- 1 CTS themselves: some of them contain- Ing references to "Comrade Trotshy" l or "comrade Lenine" comprise the
 damring record. some of the origin alss it is shown. although deposited in the secret archives of the bolshevixi were required to be returned later to representatives of the German gen. ral staff in Petrograd that they might 1 be destroyed. But evidence of them l remained in the fabric of roguery and 1, into the vacancies they fit perfectly The holshevik leaders, themselves in- l formed their "comrades" that the Ger I man government had required the re- turn of the order of the German impo- rial bank depositing 50.000,000 gold ru- bleS in a Stockholm bank for Lenino and Trotsky. and that at the same time the accounts of bank had been audited" to conceal the payments The first installment of the revelations ] appe&ring herewith is prefaced by an official statement by the committee on public information which tells briefly what the succeeding installments of