The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-19
| The Case Against the Bolsheviki
An Amazing Series of Official Documents, Pub"
ehed by the American Government, Prov"
ing Lenine and Trotzky Were


Document No. % gives evidence of the quid pro
quo. 1t Is photograph of a letter from the
president of the German Imperial bank to the
Bolshevik commissar Of foreign affairs. 1t Is
marked VERY secret" and dated January 3, 1918.
It says has TO-DAY az be- been reGeVe@
gold have been transferred to be put at the dis
posal Of the peoples commissars," which Is the
title Of the Bolshevik leaders. This credit" the
letter continues, has been supplied to the Rus
sian government in order to cover the cost OF the
keep Of the Red Guards (the BoIshevik revolu-
tionery troops) and agitators in the country The
imperial government considers it appropriate to
remind the soviet Of peoples commissars OF the
necessity of increasing propaganda in the coun-
try as the antagonistic attitude Of the south OF
Russia and Siberia to the existing CRussian) gov
eminent is troubling the German government
Four days later the same president OF the Ger
Imperial bank sent another 5,OOOOOO rouples
to the same address to provide for the sending
of Russian revolutionary leader to Wadivostok
to get possession of the Japanese and Ameri-
can war materials" at that port, and If neces-
sary to destroy them. A photograph OF MS let
There were earlier payments, but probably
none later than these. None was necessary, t by
this time the loot Of empire lay open TO the
Bolsheviks and the Germans.
Most significant Of all are two photographs OF
further communications from the German I'M
perial bank, given as Documents Nos. 10 ana II.
One is a letter addressed to the chairman or the
council of peoples conmissars and the other Is
the resolution of conference of representatives
of +he German commercial banks" received by
the chairman of the Bolshevik central executive
committee and Endorsed by him in pen and INK
terms on which Germany intends to have control
of all Russian industries.
For five years from the signing Of peace, Eng
lish French and American capital in Russia are
to be "banished" and mot to be allowed in the
following industries; coal, metallurgical, machine
building, OIL chemical and pharmaceutcai I.
These Industries are to be developed under the
control of a supreme advisory organ consisting
Of 10 Russian specialists. 10 from German INDUS
trial organizations and the German and Austrian
banks. Germany and Austria are to enjoy
the unlimited privilege of sending mechanics and
qualified workmen into Russia. All other for
eign mechanics and workmen not to be al
lowed to enter at all for five after the con-
clusion Of peace between Russia and Germany ny
Private banks in Russia arise only with the
consent" Of the Union Of German and Austrian
banks And forth.
And this conspiracy between German imperial
capitalism and the pretended Russian Reds is in
dorsed by a Boshevik leader, with the recon-
mendation that it should be taken under ad-
visement' and "the ground prepared in the Soviet
OF the workmens and soldiers deputies IN case
the council of peoples commissars Will not ac-
cede to these requests.
Various details Of the conspiracy between the
Bolsheyik leaders and the German general staff
are exposed in Documents 16 to 29 These are
photographs Of letters which passed between the
Bolshevik leaders and the German general staff
or the German officers in Russia. Document No.
81 shows that on November l, 1917, when RUSSIA
was still regarded as an ally of Great Britain
France, and America, the German general staff
was having the honor to request the BolsheVlk
leaders to inform it "at the earliest possible mo
rnent" concerning the quantity and storage place
of the supplies that have been received from
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which are keeping guard over the stores.
Document 1S shows the German general stafT
requiring the Bolshevik leaders to send "agita-
tors to the camps of the Russian prisoners Of
war in Germany" in order that they might pro-
cure spies to work among the English and French
troops and to further peace propaganda. And
this is proposed by the German general staff as
being according to the negotiations between the
Russian and German peace delegations at Brest-
LitovslS".
In Document % the Bolshevik leaders and the
Germans are arranging to send agents, aglta-
tors and ent-destructors" out of Vladivostok
Ito ports Of the United States, Japan and British
colonies in eastern ASIA.
In Document 16 Trotzky is providing fraudu-
lent passports for German officers who are going
to England France and America spies and
enemy agents. And Document. II shows Trotzky
indorsing similar proposal ITO be urgently exc
Three German submarines are to be sent to the
Pacific on the trans-Siberian railway by orders
of the German High Command in Document NO
%. Lists of German and Russian spies watching
the British, French and American embassies in
Petrograd given in Document No 25 And,
finally in Document No IS the BoIshevik leaders
are warned that information concerning the
connection Of the German government with the
Bolshevik workers" has leaked out and that
Russian troops are hearing of it.
Letters are given to show how the Bolshevik
leaders and the German officers arranged for the
assassination of Russian Nationalist leaders
documents So, 80 and 81, for the destruction Of
the Polish legionaries in the Russian army
documents 40 to 42), for the Reorganization Of
Roumanian army and the deposing OF the eRou-
manan king Document No. 3O, for the sub
St1tutlOn or OFFICERS 10 GSEILdIIy III
command Of Russian troops instead of patriotic
Russian generals documents 81 and 32), for the
suppression Of patriotic agitation among the
Russian soldiers documents 1S and 14), for an
attack upon the Italian ambassador in Petrograd
and the theft Of his papers documents 26 and
27) and for the employment Of German soldiers
in Russian uniforms against the Russian national
armies in the south Document 35l. sa
Several of the letters are Endorsed by Trotzky.
Even standing alone, they are complete proof
that the Bolshevik leaders were ruling as Ger
man agents in Russia and oheying German or
ders to act against all Gerrnanys enemies and
even against Russia itself.
Moreover these Bolshevik leaders acted as
German agents by suppressing their own Social
list revolution in the Russian provinces where
their doctrines interfered with German plans OF
annexation. Document IS is the original letter
from the Petrograd department of the German
general staff, addressed to the Bolshevik COM
nissar of foreign affairs. 1t reads: According
to instructions OF the representative of our gen.
eral staff, have the honor once more to insist
allNagitators Of the central executive committee
of the Soviet of Workmen and Soldiers Depu-
ties. And in Document ~ the general staff
orders the Bolsheviki to cease the agitation in
EstIand which had finally led to the German
landlords being declared outlawed," and to take
immediate steps for the restoration of the rights
of the above mentioned German landlords"
Another group of letters (Nos. 80 to $50 shows
how the Germans cheated the Bolshevik leaders
in their dealings with the Ukraine and made a
separate German peace with the anti-Bolshevik
leaders in that Russian province, And another
group shows the Germans assisting both sides of
the civil war in Finland documents 49, 43, and
$50.
The documents, as they follow, are given in
the report form in which they were transmitted
rittee, with some later data added and carefully
/ irdica1ed For instance. Mr., Sisson did MOI