The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20
SOLD RUSSIA
TO GERMANS
US. Has Proof That Lenine
And Trotzky in Hun
Pay.
SECRET PAPERS FOUND
Peace Treaty Arranged BY
Berlin; Story of Intrigue
Unfounded.

Washington, Sept. 14.-Proofs re-
moving any doubts that Lenine and
Trotzky, the Bolshevik leaders, are
paid German agents-if indeed any
doubts remain-are laid before the
world today by the United States Gov
eminent of an amazing series of Off
cial 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 i'm
mediate associates to betray Russia
into deserving her allies, but give
added proofs, if any be necessary,
that Germany had perfected her plans
for war of world conquest long be-
fore the assassinations at Sarevejo,
which, as the world now is convinced,
conveniently furnished her pretext.
Those 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. Germany already was setting
afoot her plans to mobilize destruc-
tive agents and observers to cause
explosions. strikes and outrages in
this country and planned the employ
ment of anarchists and escaped
criminals" for the purpose.
Almost ranking in their sensa-
tional 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 lay bare a new
strata of Prussian intrigue, a new
view of the workings of Kultur to
disrupt the Allies, standing between
the world and Kaiserism. They dis
close a new story of human treachery
for gold, which might almost well be
described without sacrilege as placing
its perpetrators on pedestal with
Judas and his thirty pieces of silver.
The intrigue appears to have been
carried down to the last detail of
arrangement with typical German
system. 1t will be revealed complete
ly in a series of seven articles fur
nished by the Committee on Public
Information for publication each
morning, beginning today, until the
series is complete.
Arranged BY Huns.
Not only do the disclosures prove
that Leine, Trotzky and their band
are paid German agents. They show
that the BOlshevik revolution which
threw Russia into such orgy of muir
der and excuses as the world seldom
has seen, actually was arranged by
the German General staff. They
show how the paid agents of Ger
many betrayed Russia at the Brest-
Litovsk peace" conference; how
German staff officers secretly have
been received by the BolshevilSi as
military advisers; how they have
acted as spies upon the embassies of
the nations with which Russia was
allied or at peace. how they effectual-
ly have directed the Bolshevik for
eign. domestic and economic policy
wholly in the interest of Germany
and the shame and degradation of
Russia.
They show how picked German
commander was detailed to defend"
Petrograd against the German army
and an extent OF German intrigue and
domination almost beyond the realm
of imagination.
Originals of documents, photo
graphs of originals and typewriter
circulars, some of them marked very
secret" or private" and many of
them bearing the annOtatiOns of the
Bolsheyik leaders, themselves, some
of them containing references to
"Comrade Trotzky" or "Comrade
Lenine," comprise the damning re-
cord
Some OF the originals ii is shown,
although deposited in the secret
archives of the Bolsheyiki, were re-
quired to be returned later to repre-
sentatives of the German General
STAFF in Petrograd that they might be
destroyed. But evidence of them re-
NAMED in the fabric of roguery and
into the vacancies they tit perfectly
The BOlshevik leaders themselves in