Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-21
HUGE CONPIRAcY TO
D|SCREDIT R0UNANIA
Bolsheviki Leaders Are Made
Tools For Furtherance OF
Teuton Designs.

Washington. Sept. 21.-The betrayal
of Roumania and elaborate advance
T plans Of Germany and her Russian Boil
sheyik tools for suppressing and muir,
dering loyal Roumanians, Russians and
Poles, are exposed in detail by today s
tchapters of the astounding secret Rus,
sian documents which the American
government is giving TO the public.
Other installmnnts of the series have
described how the Bolshevik leaderl
Lenine and Trotsky and their associates
were bought by the Germans for mil
lions in gold and engineered their
bloody overthrow of Russia for the
benefit of their bloody masters.
Now the story is told of how, while
the Brest-Litovsk peace conference
farce still was in progress, the Bolshe
vik We're sending hired agents into Rou-
mania to diserganize the armies of
Russia's S ally, dethrone the Roumanian
king and turn loose the German armies
occupied there for service in a great
offensive on the western front.
The second phase of the latest dis
lclosule shows the Bolsheviki, at Ger.
man direction, undertaking not only
to kill refractory Russian generals, but
to shoot individually and wholesale Po-
lish soldiers who were refusing to be
sold to the Germans and patriotically
keeping the field against their enc
mics.
Explanatory notes by Edgar Sisson,
who obtained the documents and many
details lacking in the papers themsel-
YES, include a story of how the Rou-
manan minister barely escaped assas-
sination after being arrested by the
Bolsheyiki.
Trotsky and Roumanian Case Up.
The Vaccinations of Trotsky, inspir-
ed by the German General Hoffman, for
the disruption of Roumania, are disclos.
ed in the following:
To the commission on Combating the
Counter Revolution Commander-in
chief Krilenko has requested the coun-
ter-espionagc at the staff to inform
you that it is necessary to order the
following persons to the Roumanian
front Immediately: From Petrograd,
Commissar Kubl, Socialist Rakovsky,
Sailor Gucshin and from the front the
chief of the Red Guard Durasov. These
persons should be supplied with litera-
ture and with financial resources for
agitation To them is committed the
task Of taking all measures for the de-
posing of the Romanian king and the
removal of counter-Tevolutionary Rou.
manian officers.-Director of Counter
espionage, Feierbend; Secretary N.
Drachev.
Notc-this marks the beginning of
large scale work to disorganize the Ro.
umanian army. That is its early win.
ter phases it advances disappointingly
to Germany is evidenced by vengeful
steps taken later by General Hoffman
and Trotsky from Brest-Litovsk, when
in the middle of January Trotsky, at
the request Of General Hoffman, order.
ed the arrest in Petrograd of the Rou-
manian Minister Diaman6. The con.
tents of this letter, written by Joffe,
were telegraphed to Washingtca in
February and Photographic copy of let
ter forwarded.
At about the same lime the Rou-
manian public gold reserves in custody
within the Kremlin walls at Moscow
were seized by the Russian government.
Diamandi was released from arrest at !
the demand of the armed diplomatic
delegations at Petrograd, but his hu-
mutations continued and on January 20
he was ordered from Petrograd, being
given less than 10 hours to prepare for
the departure Of party that contain
ed many women and children. Ambas