New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
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NditilSilNS VI tcNulIGiitS VIII btNNs.
This official resume of the disclosure
says:
"The Committee on Public In
formation releases for publication
herewith series of communications
between the German Imperial gov
ernment and the Russian Bolshcvik
government and between the Boil
sheViki themselves, and also the re
mort thereon made to George Creel
by Edgar Sisson, the committees
special preventative in Russia dur
ing the winter Of 19l711S.
"These documents show that the
present heads Of the Bolshevik gov
ernmeNt-Leninc and Trotzky and
their associates German agents.
Huns Financed Bolshcvjki
"rhey show that the Bolshevik rcvo-
luton was arranged for by the Ger
man Great General Staff and financed
by the German Imperial Bank and
other German financial institutions.
They show that the treaty Of Brest-
Iitovsk was a betrayal Of the Russian
people by the German agents, Lenine
and Trotzky; that a German picked
commander was chosen to defend
Potrograd against the Germans; that
German officers have been secretly re-
ceived by the Bolshevik government as
military advisers, as spies upon the
embassies of Russia's allies, as officers
IN the Russian army and as directors
Of the Boshevik military. foreign and
domestic policy. They show, in short.
that the present Bolshevik government
is rot Russian government at all,
but German government, acting sole
ly in the interests Of Germany and be-
traying the Russian people, as it be
trays Russia's natural allies, for the
benefit OF the imperial German gov
ernment alone.
and they show also that the Boil
shevik leaders, for the same German
imperial ends, have equally betrayed
the working classes of Russia whom
they pretend to represent
Many Original Documents
"The documents are some seventy in
number. Many are originals, annotat-
ed by Bolshevik officials. The balance
of the others are photographs of origi-
mails, showing annotations. And they
corroborate third set of typewritten
circulars (see appendix latcr), of which
only two originals are possessed, but
all Of which fit perfectly into the whole
pattern Of German intrigue and Ger
man guilt.
"The first document is a photograph
of renort made to the Bolshevjk lead
crs by two of their assistants, inform
ing them that in accordance with their
instructions there had been removed
from the archives Of the Russian Min
istry Of Justice the order of the Ger
man Imperial Bank allowing money to
Comrades Lenine, Trotzky land others"
for the propaganda of peace in Rus
sia,' and that, at the same time, all the
books of a bank in Stockholm had been
audited to conceal .he payment Of
money to Lenine, Trotzky and their as
sociates by order of the German I'M
perial Bank
"Thi5 report is indorscd by Lenine
with his initials for deposit in the Sc
clet department. of the Bolshovik files.
And the authenticity of the report is
supported by Document no. ., which
Is the original OF a report sent by a
German General STAFF representative to
the Bolsheyik leaders, warning them
that he had Just arrested an agent who
had in his possession the original order
of tho German Imperial Bank referred
to in Document No. /, and pointing
out that evidently at the proper time
steps were not taken to destroy the
aforementioned documents
Other Papers Taken Back
Document No. 3 is the original
protocol signed by several BolsheviL
leaders and dated November 2, 1917,
showing that 'or instructions Of the
representatives of the German General
staff IN Petrograd' and with the con
sent of the Council of Peoples Com
missars, of which Trotzy and Lenine
we're the heads, two discriminating Ger
man circulars had also been taken
from tho Department of Secret Service
of thc Petrograd district and given to
nc Secret Service Department Of the
German General Staff in Petrograd.
ON the bottom of the protocol the Ger
man adjutant acknowledges receipt Of
the two discriminating circulars with
his cipher signature And TO completc
tho evidence the circulars are shcm-
selves pcncilled with the sipher sigma
turc Of the head of the German Secret
Service bureau.
These two circulars apparently had
been obtained by some Russian agent
in Germany and transmitted to Russia.
The German General Staff evidently
wished TO get them back in order to
destroy them. BY order of the German
General Staf and with the Consent OF
Lenine and Trotzky they are TUNED
over to the Germans to be DESTROYED.
Why? Because they arc conclusive
proof that on June 9, 1914, the German
government was preparing for war,
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