Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-18

from American ports 10 Russia, France
and England. The order calls for ex-
! blossoms. strikes, delays. ENVIRONMENTS
and difficulties and II recommends
! the employment OF anarchists and
! escaped criminals" for the purpose,
! II il these damning proofs Of a Ger
man conspiracy against the nations OF
! Europe in June, 1914. and against the
United States in November, l9li-tt -
( these that Lenine and Trotzky surren-
dered TO the German secret service In
{ Petrograd on order of the represent
ativos of the Cen general stan in
Petrograd"
And they surrendered them in con-
forinity with a working agreement he
tween the bolshevist leaders and the
German general staff. OF which agree
ment a photograph is included in the
, series as Document No. !,
Il is dated October 1917. II is from
Il division of the German general stall.
II is addressed to the council OF the
peoples Commissars, Of which Lcntne
and Trotzky were heads. II begins:
In accordance with the agreement
which took place at krOnStadt, in July
OF the present year, between the OF
"details Of our general STAFF and leaders
of the Russian revolutionary army and
democracy. MCSsrs. lrnine and TrotI-
Ky, Rasnlnikov and Dybenko. the Rus
sian division OF our general stan OPP
Grating in Finland is ordering to Pet
rograd officers fer the disposal Of the
information department Of the stan.
Among the officers named are Major
I.uherts whose cipher signature is Civ
on as il appears 81 the two surrendered
German circulars mentioned above,
Document No. 81 and Lieutenant
Hartwig. WHO'S" cipher signature Is
given as ii appears on the receipt Of
the two circulars. And an indorse-
ment on this letter from the German
general staff records that the German
officers assigned to PetroCrad had ap-
peared before the military rerolu-
tionarv committee" and had agreed
on conditions with regard TO their mu-
tual activities
What their mutual activities were
to be is sufficiently indicated by Docu-
ment No :, which is photograph OF
a letter signed in cipher by this Major
Luberts and his adjutant, Lieutenant
Hartwig They notify the bolshevist
leaders on Jan. IL. 1918, that by orders
OF the German general STAFF the Ger
man intelligence section has in
formed us OF thesnames and the char
acteristics Of the main candidates for
re- collection" to the Russian hOlshevist
central executive committee" and the
general staff orders us TO insist on the
election Of the following people" They
tory to the German general staff. The
list is headed by Trotzky and Lenine.
They were elected. and the rest OF the
present bolshevik executive committee
was chosen from the same German list.
Documents IS gives evidence Of the
quid pro quo. 1t is photograph of
letter from the president of the Ger
man Imperial Bank to the Bolshevist
Commissar of Foreign Affairs. 1t is
marked Very Secret" and dated JAMS,
1915. It says: information has today
been received by me from Stockholm
that Sc. 900, 900 rubles of gold have been
transferred to be put at the disposal
/ of the peoples commissars." which is
the title of the bolshevist leaders.
This credit" the letter continues. mas
|
ment in order TO cover the cost of the
keep of the Red Guards (the bolshevist
revolutionary troops) and agitators in
the country. The imperial government
considers Il appropriate to remind the
soviet of peoples commissars of the
necessity Of increasing propaganda in
| the country, as the ntagoniStic atti-
tude Of the south Of Russia and Siberia
to the existing CRussian government
| is troubling the German government"
Four days later the same president OF
the German imperial bank sent another
| 5000 900 rubleS TO the same address to
provide fer the sending of a Russian
revolutionary leader to Nladivostok to
get possession of the Japanese and
American war materials" at that port
and if necessary to destroy them. A
! photograph of his letter is given as
| Document ..
There were earlier payments, but
probably none later than these. None
was necessary. BY this time the loot
of an empire lay open to the bolsheviki
and the Germans.
! Most significant of all are two photo
! graphs Of further communications from
the German imperial bank. given as
Documents 10 and II. One is letter
addressed to the chairman of the coun-
ell of peoples commissars and the 9TH
er is the resolution circumference of
representatives Of the German COM
! nercial banks" received by the chair
man of the bolshevist central executive
committee and Endorsed by his secre-
tary. Together they give complete
! synopsis OF the terms on which Ger
many intends to have control of all
! Russian industries.
| For five years from the signing rof
! peace, English. French and American
capital in Russia are to be "banished'
and mot TO be allowed in the following
industries: Coal. metallurgical, ma
! chine building. oil. chemical, and phar-
maceuticaf." These industries are tc
be developed under the control of A
( supreme advisory organ consisting OF
ten Russian specialists, ten from Ger
man industrial organizations. and the
German and Austrian banks" Germany
and Austria are to enjoy the unlimited