The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-09-27
BOLSHEv|K RULERS
BR|BED BY KAISER
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT Ex-
POSES THE TREAcHERx OF
LENINE AND TRoTZkY.
FACTS FULLY SUBSTANTlATEO
Documents and Photographs Provo
Absolutely That Leaders Betrayed
Russia Germanys Plotting
Against v. S. in 1914 Also
Revealed.

WashngtOn.-Throu the commit
tee on public information the United
States government has submitted to
the world, in series OF official docu-
ments, absolute proof that Lenine and
Trotzky, the bolshevik leaders, are the
paid tools of Germany and betrayed
Russia for Hun gold.
Secured i'm Russia by Edgar G. Sis
son, representing the committee (who
was in that country during last win
ter, 1917-1S) these documents not only
show how the German government
through Its Imperial bank paid Its gold
to Lenine, Trotzky, and their imme-
date associates to betray Russia into
deserving her allies, but give added
proofs that Germany had perfected her
plans for war of world conquest long
before the assassinations at Sarajevo,
which conveniently furnished her pre-
text.
Hun Plots Against America.
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 1t
lin 1910, Germany already was set
ting afoot her plans to mobilize de-
structive agents and observers to
cause explosions, strikes, and Outrages
in this country. and planned the en-
ployment Of anarchists and escaped
criminals" for the purpose.
Almost ranking in their sensational
nature with the notorious thinner
man note proposing war by Mexico
and Japan upon the United States,
these documents lay bare new strata
of Prussian intrigue, new view OF
the workings of kultur to disrupt the
allies standing between the world and
kaiserism. They disclose also new
story Of human treachery for gold.
The intrigue appears to have been
carried down to the last detail of ar
rangement with typical German sys-
| TEN.
Revolution Staged by Berlin.
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 orgy of MUIR
der and excuses as the world seldom
has seen, actually was arranged by the
German general staff.
They show how the paid agents OF
! Germany betrayed Russia at the Brest-
Litovsk peace" conference; how Ger
man staff officers have been secretly
received by the bOlsheviki as military
advisers: how they have acted as spies
upon tht embassies of the nations
with WI II Russia was allied or at
roacr; how they have directed the
! lol ,i,ViA foreign. domestic and eco
homie policy wholly In the interest Of
Germany. and to the shame and deg
radiation of Russia.
| Originals of documents, photographs
of originals, and typewriter circulars,
some of them marked Every secret" or
private" and many Of them bearing
the annotations of the b0lshevik lead
ers themselves; some of them con-
tanning references to "Comrade Trotz-
| ky" or "COmrade Lenine" comprise the
record.
Some Of the originals, VI Is shown,
although deposited in the archives OF
the bolsheviki, were required to be
returned later to representatives OF
the German general staff in Petrograd
that they might be destroyed.