Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-17
BOLSHEVIKI LEADERS
EXPOSED BY i. s. AS
TRAITORS TO RUSSIA
Germans Gave Gold to Pre-
mier and Associates Who
Betrayed Their Country at
BreSt-LitOvSk Conference

WASHINGTON. Sept. I4.-ProOfs re-
moving any doubts that Lenine and
Trotzky. the Bolsheviki leaders. are
paid German agents-if indeed any
doubt remaius-are laid before the world
today by the United states government
in the first installment OF an amazing
series of official documents diclosed
though the committee on public infor-
nation.
Secured in Russia by American agents,
these documents not only show how the
German government. through its imperi-
al bank. paid its gold TO LenIne. Trotzky
and their immediate associates TO betray
Russia into deserving her allies, but
give added proofs. if any be necessary,
that Germany had perfected her plans
for a war Of world conquest long before
the assassination at SareveJo, which, as
the world now is convinced, conveniently
furnished her pretext.
These documents further show that
before the world war was four months
old. and more than two years before the
United States was drawn into IT, Ger
many already was setting afoot her
MANS TO mobilize destructive agents
and observers to cause explosions,
strikes and other outrages in this coun-
try and planned the employment OF
anarchists and escaped criminals for
the purpose.
Almost ranking in their sensational
nature with the notorious zimmerman
note. proposing war by Mexico and ia
pan upon the United States. which was
first given to the world through the AS
ISOLATED Press, these documents lay
hare a new strata of Prussian intrigue,
a new view of the workings of kultur
TO disrupt the allies. standing between
Disclose
a new story of human treachery for gold
which might almost well be described
without sacrilege. as placing its perpe-
traitors on a pedestal with Judas ana
his thirty pieces of silver.
Used Typical System
The intrigue appears to. have been
carried down TO the last detail of ar
rangement with typical German system.
It will be revealed completely in
series of seven articles furnished by the
committee on public information for
publication every day, beginning To-
day. until the series is complete.
Not only do the disclosures prove that
Leninc. Trotzky and their band are paid
German agents, they show that the Bo.-
sheviki revolution which threw Russia
into such an orgy of murder and eX-
cesses as the world seldom has seen,
actually was arranged by the German
general staff. They show how the paid
agents OF Germany BETRAYED Russia at
the Brest-Litovsk peace" conference;
how German staff officers secretly have
been received by the Bolsheviki as mill
tary advisers; how they have acted as
spies upon the embassies of the nations
with which Russia was allied or at
peace. how they effectually have direct
ed the Bolsheviki foreign, domestic and
vi interest
Of Germany aud the shame and degrade
ton of Russia. They show how picked
German commander was detailed to de
fend' Petrograd against the German
army and an extent Of German intrigue
and domination almost beyond the realm
OF Imagination.
documentary Proof Shown
Originals of documents, photographs
sf originals and typewriter circulars,
some of them marked very secret or
'.private" and many of them bearing the
annotations of the Bolsheviki leaders
themselves: some of them containing
references to "Comrade Trotzky' or
"Comrade Lenine." comprise the damn
ing record. Some of the originals, IL is
shown. although deposited in the secret
archives of the Bolsheviki. were requir-
ed to be returned later to representa-
tives of the German general staff In
Petrograd that they might be destroyed.
But evidence of them remained in the
fabric of noguery and into the vacancies
they fit perfectly. The Bolshevik lead
ers. themselves. informed their com
radesr that the German government had
required the return of the order of the
German Imperial bank depositing o.
OOO. GOO gold rubles in a Stockholm bank
for Lenine and TrotZly. and that at the
same time the accounts of the bank mad
been audited to conceal the payments.