Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-16
Boil SHEV|K MASK
FOR HUNS; RUSSIA
GERMANY pawn
Remarkable Documents Brought
to Light Show Lenine Crowd is
Financed by Berlin.
KAISER'S METHODS Barred

Washington. d. c., Sept. 16.-Thc
part played by the German Imperial
Bank in financing the Russian Bolsheviki
movement. the care taken by the Ger
man military authorities to prevent
spread among their own people OF the
Socialistic preaching of their Russian
tools. and the plans laid for German
control Of Russia, economically and
financially, during and after the war,
feature the disclosures IN the second IN
staInent of the sensational series of
secret documents which the American
Government is making public.
The first inStallment of these docu-
ments showed Germany's disreputable
part in the fall of Russia and the rise
of Ienine and the others OF the Bol-
shevik Socialists.
GERMAN STAFF CONVICTED
Copies of the documents, given out
last night, carry the file numbers of the
Reichbank, or of the German General
Staff, and in some instances notatIons
by Leninc or Trotzky. the BolshevIk
leaders. now shown 10 have been IN the
pav of Germany since long before they
Overt brew Russia new democratic gov
ernment and virtually turned the country
over to the Teutons There arc Illuml-
Mating explanatory notes by Edgar Sis
aon. of the Committee on Public Infor-
nation. who directed the Investigation
which resulted in the disclosures.
LENISE GETS MILLIONS.
One of the Reichbank memoranda,
dated last January, announced to the
Commissar of Foreign Affairs (Lenlne)
that 80 OO0, 600 roublcs of gold had been
placed to the credit ut Stockholm of the
IL 4 -
cover the cost Of Red Guards and agi-
tators. Another Of few days later tells
of a credit of 1000 900 roubles for the
assistant naval commissar in the Far
East. who is entrusted with the task
of carving of or destroying the great
American and Japanese stores of war
material at Vladivostok- scheme that
probably was well under way when the
landing of American and Allied forces
at Nladivostok ended the sway of the
BolshcvIkl there.
GERMAN PLAN OF RUSSIAN CONTROL.
4 resolution adopted by the German
commercial banks. under the auspices
OF the Reichhank. outlines an elaborate
program for control of Russia hv Ger
many and the barring Of America snd
the Allies from the Russian commercial
and industrial field after the war. What
has happened 10 this scheme is not
definitely known. but i Is suggested
that II NAV he the subject Of one Of he
secret sections OF the Gcrman-R Rolshcvik
treaty.
How Lenine and Trotzkv were bctrav-
ing their Socialist friends. along with
Russia, Is disclosed by . sharp note to
Ieninc from the Nachrlchten bureau.
demanding 70 know what steps he would
take to make good his personal promise
that Socialrstic and agitati0nal Ifera-
ture would not bc circulated among Ger
man troops Trotzky wrote on the mar
gin Il ask to discuss til 7.
LENINE OPENLY SURRENDERED.
The concluding document of the in
stallmCnt IS German warning on January
% 10 Lcnine. that unknown aCitators
were circulating propa ganda, telling in
advance Of the plans Of the RolshcvikI
10 oprnlv surrender 10 the Germans
ss they actually did later
The following documents show in do
tsil how the German Government financed
the Russian Bolshevik revolution through
the German Imperial Bank
They show what regards the German
financial snd Industrial interests de-
msnded in return for the German sup
port of the Bolsheviki And thcv show
how the Bol.hevik leaders hetraved their
own followers and abandoned the preach
ing Of their social revolution wherever
the Germans ordered that it should
be abandoned