The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-09-26
Papers Secured by U. S. Show
Treachery Of Bolshevik
Chiefs.
BETRAYED RUSSIA FOR GOLD
Documents Given Member Of Commit
tee on Public Information Also
Reveal How Germany Plotted =
Against v. s. in 1914.


Neutrality-suspicious. removing any
doubts that Nicolai Lenine and Leon
Trotzky, the bolshevik leaders, are
paid Germnn ngents-if indeed any
doubts have remained-nre laid before
the world by the United States gov
ernment in an nmmzing series OF OIL
cial documents disclosed through the
committee on public Information.
Secured In Russia by Edgar u. SIS
son, representing the committee (who
was in that country during last WIN
ter, 1017-1S) these documents not only
show how the German government
through its lmperial bank paid its gold
to Lenine. Trotzky. and their iinine-
date associates to betrly Russia into
deserving her allies, hut give added
proofs that Germany had perfected her
plans for Il war of world conquest long
before the assassiuations at Sarnjevo.
which conveniently furnished her pre-
text.
~>s- 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 II
Tin 1910. Germany already was set
ting nfoot her plans to ''nob,lize de-
structive agents and observers 10
cause explosions, strikes. and outinges
in this country, and planned the en-
ploymcnt of anarchists ana escaped
criminals for the purpose.
Almost ranking in their sensatonni
nature with the notorious Zimnier-
mun note proposing war by Mexico
and Japan upon the United States.
these documents lay bare new strata
of Prussan Intrigue, II new view OF
the workings of k,htur TO disrupt the
allies standing between the world ara
kuiserism. They disclosed also II new
story of human trcnchery for gold.
The Intrigue appears TO have been
carried down to the last detail OF nr-
rangemcnt with typical German sys-
tenn
Revolution Staged by Berlin.
Not only do the disclosures prove
that Leninc, Trotzky, and their bnnd
are paid German agents. They show
that the bolshevik revolution. Which
threw Russia into such orgy of MUIR
der and excesses as the world seldom
hns seen, actually wns arranged by
the German general STAFF.
They show how the paid agents OF
Germany betrayed Russia nj the Brest-
Litovsk "pence" conference; how Ger
man staff officers have been secretly
received by the bolsheviki us 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
bolshevik foreign, domestic and eco
nOmic policy wholly in the interest Of
Germany. and to the shame and deg
radiation OF Russia.
( Originals OF documents. photographs
of originals. and typewriter circulars
some OF them marked very secret"
or private" and mnny of them bear
lag the annOtations of the bolshevlk
leaders themselves; some of them con-
taining references to "Comrnde TrotZ-
sy" or "Comrade Lenine" comprise the
record.
Some of the originals, 1t is shown.
although deposited In the archives of
the bOlshevikl. were required to he
returned later to representatives of
the German general staff In PetrOgrad
that they might be destroyed.