Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-03-14
Using and Financing
Ler''1e IN an Effort to Stir
Up World Wide Labor Rgpolts
BY ROBERT j. BENDER.


Copyrighted, 1918, by the United Press.
Washington, d. c., March 11.-Ger-
many, with he aid of Lenine, bolshev-
ist prime minister of Russia, is plan
ing to bring about industrial revolu-
ton in the United States. Japan, Italy,
France and England.
h United Press today is able to
present further information reaching
here from a highly authoritative but
confidential source, showing the machi-
nations OF Lenine in the campaign
against the 'militarism of the allies"
While acting as the catspaw of the
Teutons.
Following the statement of Lord
Robert Cecil. British minister of block
ade. hat certain elements of the boil
shevists, acting In accord with German
agents have adopted an openly anti
entente attitude. Information revealed
here today shows the German-Lenine
propaganda now under way as the most
dangerous since the war began.
Plan to Send Out Agents.
Already it has zone to the point
whe-e Germans have laid before the
bolshevist leader Il proposition whereby
German agents sailing in Russian ships
are said to have landed in Japan, the
United States and British east Asia
colonies to do the work of %agitators.
Already this government is informed
that German prisoners in Siberia have
been given their freedom and that
Swedish socialists have been care
fully chosen as agents for the
among the workers In all allied coun-
tries. The intent is to stir up industrial
revolution. The immediate use the Ger
mans are making of Lenine and the
Russian bolshevist government is
| shown in the following cable received
today:
The Petrograd representative of the
German navy has received instructions
to propose to the council of the peoples
commissaries the following scheme:
steamships are to be placed at the
disposal of the German agents at Vladi-
vostok to be loaded With merchandise.
These vessels are to be sent to the
United States, Japan and the British
colonies, the cargoes really carried to
be agents Of Germany to become agita-
.ors.'"
IF unable to get Russian ships the
under any flag
1.-The action Of Russia or the mat
ter has not been ascertained."
Financed by Germany.
That Germany will do her utmost to
finance all the projects tending to in
dustrial upheaval in the allied countries
is Known. A deal has been made with
1LSIllllo W puSu lllGSc uplIedVdlS from
the bolsheVist standpoint and 500, 600
rubles have been appropriated for that
purpose, and one of Lenine's agents is
known to be a member Of the bolshey-
list cabinet.
From a purely socialist angle it is
learned work was to be done through
Swedish Minister L~indhagen.
The outstanding feature of the re-
port received here is the utter frank
ness in which the Germans are now
dealing with the Russian council Of
peoples commissaries in their work to
weaken the allies.
The report shows that Lenine con-
tinues to exert his energy in these
channels while urging the people not
to attack the German peace terms and
offer no counter resistance to the in
vaders. And most confidential reports
received by American and allied rep
resentatives show that for the most
part the German invaders are well
coined in Russian territory, presum-
ably in the hope that the Teutons' ar
rival will mean the re-establishment of
order.
Plan Counter Moves.
How far the Lenine and German
propaganda has one already has not
been a~scertained. 1t is felt, however,
that in view of the growing German
menace. in view of the exposed propa-
ganda plots, measures might well be
taken to combat and further solidify
the relationships and understandings
between the United States and the al
lies. 1t is probable that a delegation of
American public men may go to En-
gland 500 to preach the American
viewpoint and study the English view
point and return to America 30 talk in
this country on the allies viewpoint.
The personnel of the delegation has
not yet been determined but it would
include political and intellectual Lead
ers, men and women, representative of
labor and professors in some Of the
nations institutions Of learning.