Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-18
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| privilege Of sending mechanics and
qualified workmen into Russia" All
other foreign mechanics and workmen
are not to be allowed to enter at all"
for five years after the conclusion or
peace between Russia and Germany.
I "Privatc banks In Russia arise only
with the consent" of the union OF Ger
man and Austrian banks. And sc
| forth.
| And this conspiracy between German
/ imperial capitalism and the pretended
| Russian Reds is Endorsed by "a bolsheN-
I list leader. with the recommendation
| that IL should be taken under advise
ment" and the ground prepared in the
soviet OF the workmcn's and soldiers
deputies In the the council Of peoples
! commissars will not accede to these
I requests"
! Various details Of the conspiracy be-
. tween the bolshevist leaders and the
! German general staff are exposed In
! Documents l6 to -. These are photo
graphs OF letters which passed between
! the bolshevist leaders and the German
/ general staff, or the German officers
/ in Russia Document 81 shows that on
/ Nov. /. 1911 when Russia was still re-
garded as an ally Of Great Britain.
! France and America. the German gen.
| eral staff was having the honor TO re-
quest" the bolshevist leaders to inform
! il at the earliest possible moment
concerning the quantity and storage
place of the supplies that have been
received from America, England and
! France, and also the units which are
b a IN, 81
Document is shows the German gen.
eral staff requiring the bolsheVist lead
ers TO send "agitators to the camps Of
( the Russian prisoners OF war in Ger
many" in order that they might pro-
/ cure spies to work among the English
and French troops and further "peace
propaganda" And this is proposed by
/ the German general staff as being "ac-
cording to the negotiations between the
| Russian and German peace delegations
| at Brest- Litovsk."
| In Document % the bolshevist lead
ers and the Germans are arranging to
send agents. agitators, and agent-de-
structors" out of Vladivostok ito ports
( OF the United States. Japan and Brit
/ ish colonies in eastern Asia"
! In Document is Trotzky is providing
! fraudulent passports for German Off
GERS who are going to England, France,
and America as spies and enemy
agents. And Document II shows Trotz-
! ky indorsing similar proposal ito be
urgently executed. l.. t.
Three German submarines are 10 be
sent to the Pacific on the Trans ST.
! berian railway by ordets of the German
! high command in Document IS. Lists
| OF German and Russian spies watch
! ing the British. French and American
embassies in Petrograd are given in
( Document IS. And. finally in Docu--
ment Is. the bolshevist leaders are
warned that information concerning
1.-The connection of the German govern
ment with the bolshevist workers" has
! leaked out and that Russian troops are
hearing Of il.
Letters are given to show how the
bolshevist leaders and the German Off
GERS arranged for the assassination of
Russian nationalist leaders, Docu-
rnents IS. 80. and 52). for the destruc-
ton Of the Polish legionaries in the
Russian army, documents 40 to 42)'
for the disorga nization of the Rouman-
ian army and the deposing OF the Rou-
manian king, Document 30, for the
substitution Of officers satisfactory to
Germany in command Of Russian
troops instead of patriotic Russian
generals. documents 81 and 32l, for
the suppression Of patriotic agitation
among the Russian soldiers, (Docu-
ments 10 and 40. for an attack upon
the Italian ambassador in Petrograd
and the theft Of his papers, (Docu-
ments IS and 27), and for the employ
ment of German soldiers in Russian
uniforms against the Russian national
armies in the south, Document 35).
Several Of the letters are Endorsed by
Trotzky. Even standing alone they are
! complete proof that the bolshevist
leaders were ruling as German agents
in Russia and obeying German orders
to act against all Germany's essemies
and even against Russia itself.
! Moreover these bolshevist leaders
acted as German agents by suppress
ing their own socialist revolution in
the Russian provinces where their doc
trines interfered with German plans Of
! annexation. Document IS is the origi-
nal letter from the Petrograd depart
ment of the German general staff, ad-
dressed to the bolshevist commissar OF
foreign affairs. 1t reads: According
to instructions OF the representative Of
our general staff, have the honor once
more to insist that you recall from
Estland, Litva, and Courland all agita-
tors of the central executive committee
of the soviet of the workmen's and SOL
ders' deputies" And in Document Al
the general staff orders the bolshevist
to cease the agitation in Estland which
had finally led to the German land
lords being declared outlawed," and to
take immediate steps for the restor-
ing of the rights Of the above-men-
toned German landlords"
Another group of letters (33 to 3s)
shows how the Germans cheated the
bolshevist leaders in their dealings
with the Ukraine and made a separate
German peace with the anti bolshevist
leaders in that Russian province. And
another group shows the Germans as
sisting both sides of the civil war in
Finland documents 80, AZ, and $50.