The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-11

ultlJS dIG llOG IllC Ill Cot'OAASlA'hN German agents.
 They are official documents, civil ian, naval, military, and commercial signed and issued by that organiza- tion, which, in the absence of more appropriate title, goes under the name of the Imperial German government. Tn certain documents that we are going to publish below, you will find the proof, the absolute proof, that the corruption in Russia Was-and still to- day without doubt is-perhaps not only authorized at the instigation of the Imperial government, not only by the powerful German Industrial Syn dicates, but by the German Socialist Majority themselves. These accusing documents prove that Lenin, Trotsky, Lounatscharski, Zinovref, Kamanef, and other gentlemen of lesser lmpor- tance among the Russian Maxlmallsts have been bribed, and bribed cheaply, by the gold which they have denoun- ced-and the gold was German gold. Now a word regarding the authenti- city of the documents, which this newspaper will publish from time to time.
 These documents at the present time are the property of Bernard Taft one of the contributing editors ot the I.e Petit Parisian; which newspaper vouches for their authenticity, and challenges any and all who would question their genuineness. They were brought directly from Russia by a friend of Bernard Taft, who bears a well-knoWn name in French society and to whom they were given by a man whose good faith no one would doubt-a man celebrated in Russian revolutionary movements, and known by everyone who has followed events in Russia since the revolution. This man whom the Maximalists pursued with all the ferocious hatred that the criminal has for the lover of justice that man whom they would be so glac to hold in their claws; who alway: escaped them, who taunts even tht usurpers; always working to save hl country from shame, who never des pairs of his Fatherland. this man ha courageously given to the Le Peti Parisian permission to use his name The contributor to the Le Petit Paris ian uses these words in hesitating, a the present time, to give the name o the Russian who has handed hin these important documents:
 eff I do not do it, it is because I d not wish to prepare for him a terribl Chugaref and Kokoschine, throat cut ting done by Lenin and Trotsky. Tn day will come, soon, I hope, when will be possible to give him the credi for the exposure of these documents. Now we come to the first of the in eliminating documents. In itself may not seem at first glance very sig nificant. However, the writer call the attention of his readers to tn dates of the issuance of these officia German "orders' and also to keep i mind their relationship to the other!
 Here is a circular dated January 1914. sent out by the German Imper ial General headquarters, to all Re gional Commanders.
 "It is ordered within three days make a full and complete telegraph report on the quantity and quality i reserve of all the provisions and ra' material in each military sub-divt sion.
 (Signed) Litke."
 ftdNlnS aSCeTIdineu, OT udNlllsS ldhe a complete inventory of food, and ra- material in reserve, now the Highe command of the German governme1 proceeds with still other preparation In view of the plotted war. and in ol der to safeguard the interests of tt German financiers who mrSnr sufft seriously in those countries that the knew would be struggling against u German coalition-Austria-H Hungary and particularly for the purpose guarding the interests of Germans Russia, it was necessary to preserv as much as possible, the financial r lations with the enemy countries. IT German authorities started to maj ample preparations in order to be ab to guard against this menace again German financiers, in case of war, creating credit establishments whit would be able to serve as informed aries between Germany and her en mies-and this, mind you, in t month of February 1914, almost S months before the declaration of ws
 "Circular of February IS, 1914.
 'SThe Minister of Finance of the II perial German government, to groups of German banks, and in a cordance to the AuStr1a-Hungarl agreement, Desterreichicher Cred anstalt:
 This is to convey to the knowled of the Directors of all German ban dealing with foreign commerc houses, and with the consent of t Austria Hungarian gove ernm I through the Bank of O. C.. that [ Imperial Government of Germany | attached the greatest importance
 the request of the Directors of
 Credit Banks, designed to show urgency of establishing agencies in { following places
 "Lulea,
 "Q) Haparanda and Varde, and Finland frontier, at Bergen and
 Amsterdam. The establishment
 such agencies is indispensable for ex cising the most active surveillai