The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-09-26
THE UNDERHAND WORK OF
THE BIG DEVIL OF ALL
TO START WAR OF WORLD CON-
QUEST N-JUNE, 1914.
Another Convincing Link in Proof is
Found in Secret Documents Brought
:. Out of Russia by United States
Agents.

Washington, Sept a. - Another
convincing link in the proof that Ger
many was preparing to start a war of
world conquest at least six weeks be-
fore the excuse for it was offered by
the Assassination o fthe Austrian heir
apparent at Sarajevo concludes the
amazing series OF disclosures which
the American government has given
to the public through secret dOcu-
ments brought <OH of Russia.
s Two authenticated documents are
Included in. the final chapter of the
story which began a week ago with
evidence removing any doubt that
may have existed that the Russian
holshe evfM government, headed by
Lenine Trotzky, lis a tool of the fmpe-
rial German government. One of these
is an original circular from the Ger
man general staff dated June g. 1914,
directing that adj industrial concerns
be notified to open their secret in
structions for industrial mobilization.
Another dated November 20, 1914, is
from the German naval general staff.
and reveals that within four months
after hostiIities began in Europe.
destruction agents" were ordered to
Canada and the United States to hire
anarch histsaa and escaped criminals for.
the bomb plots and 4RpFk aof terror
which final1y played a, part in draw
ing the United States into the war.
In addition to this authenticated
evidence, Edgar Sfsson, 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 purport-
To Rn .pf %1 fol
from the archives of the counter es-
pionage bureau of the Kerensky gov
ernment, supplemented by some from
the files of the same bureau before
the fall of the czar Some of this
matter has been published previously
in France and in this country. The
circulars tell of German arrangements
six months before the outbreak of the
war for the establishment of the f.
agencies in bordering neutral
countries which later furnished the
money for the operations of the boil
sheviki; of orders to German banks
to establish close and secret relations
with American and Finnish banks: of
the launching of revolutionary propa-
ganda against the czar's government
in Russia as early as November, 1914,
and of instructions to German diplo-
mats in all neutral countries to CO.
operate with agencies set up in those.
countries for stirring UP social unrest,
strikes and sentiment against war,
within the enemy states.
The names of Schiedemann, the
German socialist leader, already men
toned as involved in the dealings of
the German government with bolshe-
Wiki, appears attached to one of the
unauthenticated documents. 1t is a
note announcing that $50 kronsrs
have been placed to the credit of a
Russian newspaper, and asking that
Vorwaerts (the name of the Scheide-
mann's organ at Berlin) be advised of
what appeared in the subsidized
| journal
An appendix to the concluding in
stallment is what purports to be a
| transcript of unique telegraphic
conversation between Tchitcherin,
now bolsheviki foreign minister at
Petrograd, and Trotzky, at Brest-
Litovsk, last February a few days be-
fore Trotzky made his notorious no
peace-no-war" play. Tchitcherin is
quoted as promising that separate
peace by which Russia would not
cause rupture with the allies and
saying that England and America are
''playing up to us separately"