The Washington herald., 1918-09-17
By DwIc

Americana apanese trade" in the
Pacific.
Other documents give the full de-
tails of the extensive espionage OF
the United States, British, French
and Italian embassies In Russia and
the hold-up and robbery In broad
daylight on the streets of Petrograd
OF the Italian ambassador in the hope
of securing important diplomatic
papers.
The arrangement for obtaining
fraudulent passports for Germany s
agents to visit the United States is
shown by the following extract OF an
order addressed to The Peoples
Commissariat for Foreign Affairs"
and dated January S, 1915:
Extract from Order.
The plenipotentiary commissioner
for combating the counter revolution
and Comrade Antonoff request the
commissariat for foreign affairs to
issue passports for going to Denmark
to the following comrades who are 60
ing to the allied countries TO conduct
peace propaganda:
ITO America: Isai Borisvich Kahn,
Mark Vlasievich Gritsker. Sophia Ar
turovna.
"Au the named comrades will visit
at Copenhagen. the premises of the
staff, where they will receive neutral
passports for the trip TO the named
countries. At the disposal Of the dis
patched will be placed the necessary
means for combating in the press
with the imperialists OF England,
France and the United States"
Endorsed by Trotsky.
Trotzsky personally Endorsed this
note ITO be urgently executed" A
later German note TO the same Boil
shevik official says in part:
I'VE hereby advise you OF the ar
rival in Mogilov of the following Ger
man officers. whom are being ordered
to England. France and America,
- Baron Schilling is ordered tc
! the United States OF America with a
Norwegian passport in the name oi
DIR. Joseph Brun."
The plans for smuggling spies
| aboard freighters sailing from Vladi-
vostok is outlined in the following
! order of the German high sea feet
command, dated Jan. 10. 1915:
THE Petrograd representative oi
the supreme sea command has re
ceived by wireless from Kiel orders
| to propose to the council OF peoples
commissars to place at the disposa
| of our agents at Vladivostok-Butt
! tof, Staufacher and Franz Walden
| several steamships. On these ship:
must be loaded the goods indicated
! by our named agents and also per
sons indicated by them and be sent
az directed to ports of the United
! States, Japan and British colonies ir
| Eastern Asia. In case Of absence oi
! free tonnage in Pacific ports it is nee
essary to charter ships sailing undel
a foreign flag. The object OF sending
| the ships is to carry to enemy coun'
| tries. agents. agitators and agents
| Instructors. All the expense and risI
! the Petrograd agency of the supreme
raval command takes for account oil
the naval operations fund"
The note is signed by Captain-Lieu-
| tenant Rudolph Miller, and bears the
| penciled Endorsement of Lenine's sec
| retary. Shirpnik. The threat of the
arrival of German agents through Pa
cific ports is apparent. Germany Is
still in the saddle in Russia.
Bogus Pence Plot.
Several Of yesterdays documents
relate to the spread of the bogus
peace propaganda in the German
| prison camps.
The plan to send submarines to the
Pacific is disclosed in the following
! application Of the high sea feet COM
| mand:
Il apply to the Russian govern
| ment with a proposal to take meas
ures to deliver to the Pacific three
of our submarines, disassembled. Or
| the conclusion of peace negotiations
and the conclusion of peace between
| Russia and Germany this transport
ing must be begun Immediately.
On February "a. 1918, the German
staff ordered the Russians TO pro-
vide in the shortest possible time a
list showing what commercial boats
! auxiliary cruisers and transports mas
| be sent into the waters of the Pacific
| ocean. where the German government
intends to form for the purpose OF
opposing the American-Japanese
trade. a powerful commercial feet
flying the Russian flag"
Today the government will tell the
whole story of Germany's plot for
shameful peace with Russia.