The Washington herald., 1918-09-16
RUSSIA
HUNS IMPOSED
HARSH TERMS
Keep Of Red Guards and
Vladivostok Attempt
Paid for by Berlin.
CONTROL BY PERFDY
Rigid Economic Sway Is
Gained by Treachery
Of Bolsheviki.
CONTROL BY PERFDY

Before the vast loot of practi-
cally the whole of Russia lay
open to Germany and its Boishe-
vik co-conspirators. the imperial
government exacted a staggering
return for the corrupting gold it
had turned over to Leninc and
Trotzky, its trusted agents from
the beginning.
Lavish and unquestioning as a
briber before and during the Len
inc-Trotzky revolution, Germany
proved merciless and insistent in
its demands for power and plum
der as soon as Russia's betrayers
were in a position to deliver.
second Batch of Evidence.
These and Other equally shameful
facts of secret compacts and plotting
of the BolshevIk chiefs with their
German masters are made clear to
the world in the second installment
of official disclosures now being
made by the United States govern
ment through the Committee OF Pub
lie Information.
II is apparent from the incriminat-
ing nature OF the material made pub
lie yesterday as we'll as the further
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day during the remainder OF the
week. that the United States has firm
ly set itself to the task OF complete
ly unmasking the perfIdy of the Pol
shevik premier and war minister.
And underlying the whole expose is
the main purpose Of revealing Ger
many's major role, as instigatOr and
chief beneficiary of the plat to de-
spoil and subjugate the Russian ma
tion. The intention to publish the
entire series of confidential documents
is vitality significant as indicating a
determination by the United States
to show the Berlin nation wreckers
no more quarter in the court OF pub
lie opinion than upon the field of bat
tie.
Paid for Red Guards.
de upon
role as arch briber 1t is proved that
80, 10000 roubles in gold were placed
to the credit of the Lenine-Trotzky
regime by the German Imperial Bank
to cover the cost and keep of the
Red Guards (the Bolshevik revolution
airy troopsD and agitators to combat
the increasing hostile propa ganda Of
the peoples of the eastern sections of
Russia.
Four days later 5000, 900 roubles in
gold were furnished the same Bolshe-
vik chiefs from the same source, to
secure or destroy the japanese and
American war materials" at Vladi-
vostok..
mdisputable proof of both of these
transactions is contained in letters
from President Won Schanz. Of the
German Imperial Bank. to the Com
missar of foreign affairs Of the
Bolshevik government. The United
States government now has in its
possession Photographic copies of both
letters, In spite of the fact that they
each bear the mark. very secret"
The first letter is dated January 8.
1915. and Is, in part. as follows:
Information has today been re-
ceived by me from Stockholm that
$4,000 coo roubles of gold has been
transferred to be put at disposal OF
the representatives of the people s
conmissars. This credit has been
supplied to the Russian government
in order to cover the cost of the keep
OF the Red Guards and agitators In
the country. The imperial govern
ment considers II appropriate to re-
mind the soviet of peoples commis-
.ers OF the necessity of increasing
their propaganda In the country. as
the anita gonistic attitude OF the south
~ Russia and Siberia to the existing
royernnent is troubling the German
government
Troops well Paid.
II Is known at Washington that
members of the Red Guard were palo
from u to 16 roubles day, whereas
the soldiers were paid hardly that
number OF kopecs. The BolsheviR
government also required factory own
ers to pay regular wages TO their
workers who served IN the Red
Guard. The excesses and crimes SUB
seouentiy committed by these orioeo
assas sins and plunderers are now mat
ters of history.
The letter pr0Vloihs the money "
insure the seizure or destruction OF
the munition stores at NladiyostoR
bears a Berlin date line of January
~, 1918, and the first paragraph
says:
II am instructed to convey the
aKreemenv of the Imperial Bank &c
the issue of a credit of 100000
roubles for the dispatch of the as
sistant naval commissar, kudria-
shoff, to the Far East.
instructions are then given as tc
how to proceed with the task OF
securing or destroying the allies
rich stores. The concluding para
graph Of the letter contains the in
teresting order that the German
agents and spies to be employed IN
the undertaking should receive thu
agreed amounts and then proceed ts