The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-09-21
GERMANS PREPARED
FOR WAR IN 1914
EVEN BEFORE ASSASSINATION
AT SARAJEVO GERMANY WAS
PLANNING UPON WAR.

convincing link in the proof that
Germany was preparing to stars q
war of word conquest at least six
weeks before the excuse for it was
offered by the assassination of the
Austrian heir apparent at Sarajeyo.
concludes the amazing series of dis
closures which the American govern
ment has given to the public through
secret documents brought out OF Rus
STA.
Two authenticated documents are
included in the final chapter of the
story which began week ago with
evidence removing any doubt that
may have existed that the Russian
Bolsheyiki government, headed by
Lenine and Trotzky, is a tool Of the
Imperial German government. One
of these is an original circular from
the German general staff dated June
20, 1914, directing that all industrial
concerns be notified to open their
secret instructions for industrial mo-
Obligation. Another, dated Novem-
Der 90 1914, is from the German ma
val general staff, and reveals that
within four months after hostilities
began in Europe destruction agents"
were ordered to Canada and the Unit
ed States to hire anarchists and es-
capped criminals Cor the bomb plots
and work of terror which finally
played a part in drawing the United
States into the war.
The addition to this authenticated
| evidence, Edgar Sisson, who obtained
| the papers for the Committee on Pub
lie Information, offers remarkable
group of circulars put out in Russian
text at Petrograd last winter pur-
porting to be copies OF documents ia
ken from the archives of the coun-
/ ter-espiionage bureau of the Kerens-
ky government, supplemented by
some from the flies of the same bu-
/ reau before the fall of the Gar.
! Some of this matter has been pub
lished previously in France and this
country. The circulars tell of Ger
man arrangements six months before
the outbreak of the war for the es-
Establishment OF the financial agencies
in bordering neutral countries which
1 later furnished the money for the
Operations of the Bolsheviki; Of or
fders to German banks to establish
! close and secret relations with Amer
/ lean and Finnish banks; of the laun-
ching of revolutionary propaganda
against the Cars government in
! Russia as early as November, 1914,
and of Instructions to German diplo-
mats in all neutral countries to CO.
1 operate with agencies set up in those
countries for stirring up social ul-
rest, strikes and sentiment against
war within the enemy states.
The name az Scheidemann, the
German Socialist leader, already men.
toned as involved in the dealings OF
the German government with Boil
sheviki, appears attached to one OF
the unauthenticated documents. II
IS a note announcing that one hun
dred and fifty thousand kroners have
been placed to the credit of Rus
4 sian newspaper, and asking that Vor
waerts (the name of Scheidemann'
organ at Berlin) be advised of wha,
appeared in he subsidized journal
AN appendix to the concluding in
stallment is what purports to be q
transcript of a unique telegraphit
conversation between Tchiterin, now
Bolshevik foreign minister at Petro
grad, and Trotsky, at Brest-Litovsk
'ast February, a few days before
frotsky made his notorious mo peace
no war" play Tchiterin is quoted a:
promising that a separate peace by
J which Russia would not cause a rup
ture with the allies and saying tina
England and America are playing III
| to US separately"
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