The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-15
LENINE ANDTROTZKY|
BETRAYED RUSSIANS


Continued from First rage.
shevik leaders on November 2. 1917.
showing that this transfer was made
ION instructions Of the representatives
Of the German General Stan In Petro-
grad and with the consent OF the
Council of Peoples Commissars" of
which Lenine and Trotzky were the
heads. The two circulars apparently
had been obtained by some Russian
agent In Germany and sent to Russis.
The German General STAFF evidently
wished to get them back in order to de-
stroy them. SO with the consent" of
Lenine and Trotzky they were turned
over.
Kaiser Prepared to Strike.
WHY" says the Committee on Pub
lie Information. Because they are con-
elusive proof that on June Q, 1914. the
German Government was preparing for
war. several weeks before the assassina-
ton Of the Austrian Archduke, which
was made the pretext for war" -
One circular Is an order from the
German General STAR. dated June 9,
1914. directing al Industrial concerns
In Germany to open the sealed en-
velopes containing their Industrial mo-
In the second circular dated November
%, 1914. the German General Staff of
the high sea fleet calls for the mobiliza-
ton of "all destructive agents and OBJ
servers" In the United States and Can
ada to prevent the sailing Of ships from
American ports to Russia, France and
England. The order calls for explo-
sions, strikes. delays, embroilments
and difficulties" 1t recommends the
employment Of anarchists and escaped
criminals for the purpose.
1T Is these damning proofs of a
German conspiracy against he nations
Of Europe in June. 1914. and against
the United States in November. 1914"
says the Committee on Public Infor-
mation"-it is these that Lenine and
Trotzky surrender to the German secret
service in Petrograd on order of the
representative Of the German General
Staff In Petrograd, And they surrender
them In conformity with a working
agreement between the Bolshevik lead
ers and the German General StafY, Of
which agreement photograph Ia in
cluded in the series as Document No.
g."
The working agreement between the
Bolsheviki and the German General Stan
Is dated October. 1917. It Is addressed
by a division of the German General
Staff to the Council of Peoples Commits
sars. headed by Lenine and Trotzky. It
begins:
I'm accordance with the agreement
which took place in Kronstadt in July
of the present year. between officials of
our general star and the leaders Of the
Russian revolutionary army and democ-
racy, Mersrs. Lenine and Trotzky, Ras-
olnikov and Dybenko, the Russian d.
vision of our general staff operating in
Finland Is ordering to Petroerad officers
for the disposal OF the information de-
partment Of the stan"
Treachery by Agreement.
Among the officers named is Major
Luberts. whose cipher signature Is given
as II appears on the two surrendered
German circulars mentioned above, and
Lieut.. Hartwig. whose cipher signature
Is given as 1t appears on the receipt for
the two circulars. An Endorsement on
the letter from the German General Staff
records that the German officers assigned
to Petrograd had appeared before the
military revolutionary committee" and
had agreed on conditions with regard to
their mutual activities"
The disclosure by the Committee on
Public Information at Washington con-
tinues:
What their mutual activities were
to be Is sufficiently indicated by docu-
ment No. Z. which is a photograph OF a
letter signed in cipher by this Major
Luberts and his adjutant. Lieut.. Hart
wig They notify the bolshevik leaders
on January IL, 1913. that by order Of the
German general staff the German in
telligence section has informed US OF the
names and the characteristics OF the
main candidates for reelection to the
Russian bolshevik central, executive
committee and the general staff orders
us to insist on the election of the follow
ing people They add a list Of Russian
leaders satisfactory to the German gen
| eral staff. The list is headed by Trotzky
and Lenine. They were elected. and the
! rest of the present bolshevik executive
| committee were chosen from the same
German list"
Proof that Germany was paying the
wages of the Belshevik troops is afforded
by document No. IS in the series. 1t is
| a photograph of a letter from the presi-
dent of the German Imperial Bank to
| the Bolshevik commissar OF foreign
affairs. 1t Is marked VERY secret" and
dated January 8. 1918. 1t says: "Infor-
nation has to-day been received by me
from Stockholm that 10000 900 roubles
of gold have been transferred to be put
l at lne uiSpOsdi ol tno peopie . Soiuhiio-
sars," which Is the title Of the Bolshevik
leaders. This credit" the letter con-
tinues, has been supplied to the Rus
sian Government in order to cover the
| cost of the keep Of the Red Guards (the
Bolshevik revolutionary troops) and agi-
| tators in the country. The Imperial
Government considers 1t appropriate to
remind the soviet OF peoples com.
| mlssars of the necessity Of increasing
propaganda IN the country. as the an
! tagonistic attitude of the south of Rus
STA and Siberia to the existing (Russian)
Government Is troubling the German
Government"
Drive on America.
Four days later the same president Of
the German Imperial Bank sent another
5000. 900 roubles to the same address L
provide for the sending of a Russian
revolutionary leader to Vladivostok t.
get possession of the Japanese and
American war materially at that por
and IL necessary to destroy them.
photograph of his letter Is given as docu
ment No. 9.
The Committee on Public Information
continues;
There were earlier payments. bu
probably none later than these. Non,
was necessary. BY this time the loo
of an empire lay open to the Bolsheviki
and the Germans.
Most significant OF all are two photo
graphs OF further communications from
the German Imperial Bank. given a
documents Nos. 10 and IL. One Is 1
letter addressed to the chairman OF tn,
council OF peoples commissars and tn,
other Is the resolution Of conference o