The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-09-18
BETRAYAL OF RUSSIA.
FINAL PROOF OF RUS
SIAN PLOT BEFORE WORLD.

SIAN PLOT BEFORE WORLD.
Papers Secured by American Agents
Show That Lenine and T,otzk,
We're Paid to BetJ~ Country Into
Deserving Allies aiser's Plar
for World, Conquest Before Wa'
Came.
Washington, Sept. 14.-Proofs re
moving any doubts that Lenine and
| Trotzky, the Bolsheviki leaders, arc
paid German agents-if indeed any
doubt remains, are laid before th+
world today by the United States
government in the first installment
of an amazing series OF official doc
uments disclosed through the COM
mittee on public information.
Secured in Russia by American
agents, these documents not only
show how the German government
through it's imperial bank, paid its
gold to Lenine, TrotzEy and their
immediate associates to betray
Russia into deserting her allies, but
give added proofs, if any be neces-
sary, that Germany had perfected
her plans for a war of world con-
quest, long before the assassination
at Serejevo which as the world now
is confident, conveniently furnished
her pretext.
These documents further show
that before the world, war was four
months old, and more than two
years before the United States was
drawn into it, Germany already was
setting afoot her plans to mobilize
destructive agents and observers" to
cause explosions, strikes andA out
RACES in this country and planned the
employment of anarchists and es-
capped criminals for the purpose.
Almost ranking in their sensation
al nature with the notorious Zlnl-
norman note; proposing war by
Mexico and Japan upon the United
States which was first given to the
world through the Associated Press.
these documents lay bare a new
strata of Prussian intrigue, a new
view of the workings Of kultur to
disrupt the allies, standing between
the world and Aaiserism. They dis
close a new story OF human treach-
cry for gold which might almost
well be described without sacrilege
as placing it's perpetrators on
pedestal with Judas and his thirty
pieces of silver.
The intrigue appears to have been
carried down to the last detail Of ar
rangement with typical German sys-
tenn.
It will be revealed completely in
series of seven articles furnishes by
the committee on public infornaxI1on
for publication each morning begin
ming today, until the series is Gem
plete.
f Not only do the disclosures prove
that Lenine, Trotzky and their band
are paid German agents They show
that the Bolshevik revolution which
threw Russia into such an orgy OF
murder and excesses as the. world
seldom has seen actually was arrang-
ed by the German general staff. They
show how the paid agents OF Ger
many betrayed Russia at Brest-Lit-
ovsk peace" conference; how Ger
man staff officers secretly have been
received by the Bolsheviki as mill
tary advisers; how they have acted as
spies upon the embassies Of the na-
tons with which Russia was allied
or at peace, how they effectually have
directed the Bolshevik foreign, do
mestic and economic policy wholly IN
the interest of Germany and the
shame and degradation Of Russia
They show how a picked German
commander was detailed to defend
Petrograd against. the German army
and an extent of German intrigue and
domination almost beyond the realm
Of Imagination.
Originals of documents, and type
written circulars. some of them
marked every secret" or private
and many Of them bearing the anno-
tation of the Bo1shevik leaders them
selves; some of them containing ref
erences to "Comrade Trotzky' or
"comrade Lenine," comprise the
damning record. Some Of the orig
mails, it is shown. although deposited
! ia the secret archieves Of the Boisne-
Wiki, were required to be returned Ia
ter to representatives OF the Ger
| man government staff in Petrograd
| {hat they might be destroyed. But
evidence of them remained in the
| fabric of roguery and into the va
| cancies they fit perfectly. The Boil
shevik leaders themselves, informed
| their comrades that the German
government had required the return
Of the order Of the German Imperial
Bank depositing s50,000,000 gold
rubles in Stockholm bank for Lee
nine and Trotzky and that at the
same time the accounts Of the banks
! had been audited" to conceal the
payments.
The first installment Of the revela-
tons appearing here is prefaceo
by an official statement by the com
nittee en- public information which
tells briefly what the succeeding in
stallments of documents will prove
I This official resume OF the disclosures
says:
] The committee on public informa-