Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-16
SECRET DOCUMENTS
. SHOW BANKS HAND
Plans Laid for German Control
of Russia During and
After the War.
lENINE AND TROTZKY AGENTS
Fifty Million Rubles Provided to
Maintain Red Guards
and Agitators.
LENINE AND TROTzKY AGENTS
IBy Annotated Pre..1

!
Bank IN financing the Russian Boil
shevik movement. the care taken by
the German military authorities to pre-
vent 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 installmcnt OF the sensational
series OF secret documents which the
American government is making public.
! = Copies OF the documents. given out
/ Tonight. carry the file numbers OF the
Ecichsbank or OF the German general
:taH and in some instances notations
-. Leninc or Trotzky. the Bolsherik
ieaders now shown TO have been in
the pay OF Germany since Yong before
tney overthrow Russia's new demo-
cratic government and virtually turned
me country over to the Teutons. There
lre illuminating explanatory notes by
| Edgar Sisson, of the committee on pub
Tic Information. who directed the in
vestiSation which resulted in the dis
closures
/ one OF the Reichsbank memoranda.
dated last January. announces to the
that 5o.o00.oo0 rubles OF gold had been
/ placed to the credit at Stockholm of
the representa'ives OF the commiss
agitators. Another OF few days later,
tells OF credit of 100000 rubles for
fhe assistant naval commissar in the
task OF carrying Oft or destroying the
great American and Japanese stores OF
war material at VladIvostok-a scheme
that probably was yell under way
when the landing OF American and
allied forces at vIadivostok ended the
sway Of the Bolsheviki there.
pe5oia,9n h,nt ADOPTED by The German
OF the Reichsbank. outlines an elab-
crate program for control of Russia
by Germany and the barring of Amer
commercial and Industrial field after
the war; What happened to this scheme
is not definitely known. but 1t is sug
sested that i, may be the subject Of
one OF the secret sections of the Ger
man n-Bolshevik treaty.
raySr mGw 1nre th.i and E1o'Iks we're be-
with Russia is disclosed by sharp
note TO Lenine from the Nachrichten
bureau demanding to know what steps
ne would take to make good his per
sonal promise that Socialistic and agi-
tationai literature would not be cir
! cuiated among German .roops. Trotzky
. %rote on the margin. Il ask to dis
The concluding document OF the in
S5sainmen' is German warning on
agitators were circulating propaganda
telling in advance of the plans OF the
Bo!sheviki to openly surrenocr 10 the
DOCUMENTS DISCLOSE
FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS
The following documents show in
detail how the German governmcrc
financed the Russian Bolshevik revo.
luton through the German lmperist
Bank
They show what rewards the Ger
man financial and Industrial interests
support OF the Bolsheviki. " And f'hey they
show how the Bolshevik leaders pc
| trayed their own followers and aoan-
! doned the preaching OF their socia,
| dered that il should be abandoned
DOCUMENT NO. y.
! 'keichsoank No Jan. s. 1879
Very Seerer.
To the Commissar or Foreign Ar
fairs: Information has to-day been re-
SeiNed &c ooG oo6 BY ne. me from Stockholm that
| transferred to be put at the disposal
| OF the representatives o. the Peoples
commissars This credit has been
/ in order 10 cover the cost of the keep
| OF the Red Guards and agitators IN
the country The Imperial Govern
| mind the soviet of peoples commissars
OF the necessity OF increasing their
propa ganda in the country. as the an
Russia and Siberia 10 the existing
Government is troubling the German
government. II is OF great impor-
every
where in order to set up uniform
Imperial Bank, Won Schanz.
were paid G 10 se ruSss BSa asy
whereas soldiers were paid hardy
that number OF kopecks. This letter
The Bolshevik Government also re-
| quired factory owners to pay regular
wages 10 their workers while the lat-
ter served in the Red Guard. The no
tat inn hn atf Ind
was referred TO MenshinskI. the nnan-
cial minister, whose expert councii-
| lor was the German, Won Toll. Men
wrecking OF tho Russian banks. a ma
neuver that deprived all opponents Of
Bolshevikism of their financial means
destruction, done in the name OF re-
| construction.
Have photograEh this letter
tReichsbank No. s. Jan. IL. 1915
Berlin)
Very Secret.
To the Commissar or Foreign AZ
fairs: am instructed to convey the
agreement of the Imperial Bank To
the issue OF y credit of 5000 600 ruhles
for the dispatch Of the assistant naval
! Fast.
On arrival at vladivostok ne WOULD
visit the retired officer OF the Russian
| Fleet. MIR. Panoff and instruct Hut-
tenhor and Staufacher. VINO arc known
10 PanoT, to come to see him tsotn
| the mentioned agents will bring with
them Messrs. Edward Shindler. VIII
! liam keherlein and Paul Dicse Tor
Dese). With these persons II Is necea-
| sary to think out a plan FOR carrying
out the Japanese and American war
materials from Vladivostok to the
west II this is not possible. then they
must instruct Dicse Cor DeZc) and his
agents to destroy the stores. shindier
| must acquaint Kudriashon with the
| Chinese agents at Nikolsk. These per-
| sons should receive the agreed amounts
| and should be dispatched to China 10
carry on an agitation against Japan.
President OF the Imperial Bank. Won
| Schanz.
| Note.--If this plan was developed to
| climax II WAS not by Eudriashofr.
| He was killed on his passage through
| Siberia two or three weeks later. and
| it was reported that great sum or
money. was taken from his body by
! his murderers. who were said to no
| two Cossacks. Most Of the German
| agents named in This letter wore still