Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-09-27
fapers Secured by U. {. Show
Tfeachery of BolsheVik
Chiefs.
BETRAYED RUSSIA FOR GOLD
Documents Given Member OF Commit
tee on Public Information Also
Reveal How Germany Plotted
Against U. S. in 1914.

Washington--PrOOfS removing any
doubts that Nicolai Lenine and Leon
Trotzky, the bolshevik leaders, are
paid German agents-if indeed any
doubts have remained-are laid before
the world by the United States gov
eminent in an amazing series OF OFF,
cial documents disclosed through the
committee On public information.
Secured in Russia by Edgar G. Sis
son, representing the committee (who
was in that country during last win
ter, 1917-1S) these documents not only
show how the German government
through its Imperial bank paid its gold
TO Lenine, Trotzky. and their imlne-
date associates to betray Russia into
deserving her allies, but give added
proofs that Germany had perfected her
plans for q war Of world conquest long
before the assassinations at Sarajevo,
which conveniently furnished her pre-
text.
Hun Plots Against America.
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
Gin 1910, Germany already was set
ting afOOt her plans 10 mobilize de-
structive agents and observers" TO
cause explosions. strikes, and outIages
in this country, and planned the EN-
ployment of anarchists and escaped
criminals" for the purpose.
Almost ranking in their sensational
nature with the notorious thinner
man note proposing war by Mexico
and Japan upon the United States.
these documents lay bare new strata
of Prussian intrigue. a new view OF
the workings Of kultur 10 disrupt the
allies standing between the world and
kaiserism. They disclosed also new
story of human treachery for gold.
The intrigue appears to have been
carried down to the last detail OF ar
with typical German sys-
TEN.
Revolution Staged by Berlin.
Not only do the disclosures prove
that Lenine. 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
Germany betrayed Russia at the Brest-
LitOvsk peace" conference; how Ger
man staff officers have been secretly
by the bolsheviki 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 have directed the /
lOlshevik foreign. domestic and eco I
homie policy wholly in the interest Of 1
Germany. and to the shame and deg I
Of Russia.
Originals of documents. photographs 1
# originals. and typewriter circulars, |
'ome of them marked very secret" I
II private" and many of them bear |
ng the annotatiOns of the bolshevik /
eaders themselves; some of them con- 4
aiming references TO "COmrade Trotz- 4
"" or "Comrade Lenine" comprise the
ecord.
Some Of the originals. il is shown.
deposited IL the archives Of
he bolSheviki. were required TO be
eturned later 10 representatives OF
he German general staff in Petrograd
hat they might be destroyed.
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