Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-18


 duke, which was made the pretext for war.
 One circular is an order from the German general staff. dated June g.. 1914 informing "all industrial con ceIns" in Germany to open the sealed envelopes containing tha', industrial mobilization plans and registration forms" so they they might be prepared for the war which the excuse had not been found
 1 The second circullr is an order from the German gen -ril staff of the High Sea Fleet, dated November 2S, 1914, calling for the mobilization 0f all destructive agents and observers in the United States and Canada for ! the purpose of preventing the sailing of ships from American ports to Rus | sia, France and England The order calls for explosions, strikes, delay Cnnb~oilments, and difficulties" and it recommends the employment of "an- archists and escaped criminals" fer the purpose.
 It is these damning proofs of a German conspiracy against the nation of Europe in June 1914, and against | the United States in November. 1914, | it is shown that Lenin and Trotzky surrendered to the German secret ser vice in Petrograd on order of the representatives of the German general staff in Petrograd."
 And they surrender them in con ! formity with a working agreement be. tween the Bolshevik leaders and the German general staff, of which agree ment a photograph is included in the series as document No. 3.
 It is dated October, 1917. It is from division of the German general staff. It is addressed to the council of :he peoples commissar of which Lenin and Trotzky were the. heads. It be gins:
 Tn accordance with the agreement which took place in Kronstadt, in , July of the peresent year, between of | ficials of our general staff and lead CTS of the Russian revolutionary army and democracy, Messers Lenin and Trotzky. Rasolnikov, and DybenkO. the Russian division of our general staff, operating in Finland is ordered to Petrograd officials for the disposal of the information department of the staff"
 Among the officials named. are Ma jor Lubert, whose cipher signature is given, as it appears on the two sur rendered German circulars mentioned above document No. 3 and Lieut.. i Hartwig, whose cipher signature is given as it appears on the receipt for the two circulars, and as an endorse ment on this letter from the German general staff records that the German officers assigned to PetrOgrad had ap- peared before the military revolu- tionary committee" and had agreed on conditions with regard to their mu- tual activities"
 What their mutual activities" were to be is sufficiently indicated by docu- ment No. 2, which is a photograph of letter signed ip cipher by this Ma jor Lubert and shis adjutant, Lieut. Hardwig. They notified the Bolshe- vik leaders on January 12, 1918, that "by order of the German general staff the German intelligence section has informed us of the names and char acteristics of the main candidates for reelection" to the Russian Bolshevik central executive committee" and the general executive committee and the general staff orders us to insist on the election of the following people" They add a list of Russian leaders satisfactory to the German general staff. The list is heaGed by Trotzky and Lenin They were elected. and the rest of the present Bolshevik ex- nhnCnn the same German list.
 A document No. 2S gives evidence of the quid pro quo. It is a photo graph of a letter from the president of the German Imperial bank 10 the Bolshevik commissioner of foreign af- fairs.
 It is marked "very secret" and dated January s, 1918. It says: "Informa- tion has today been received by me from Stockholm that 5O.OOO.OOO rubles of gold have been transferred to be put at the disposal of the peoples commissars," which is the title of the Bolshevik leaders. "The credit" the letter continues, "has been supplied to the Russian government in order to cover the cost of the keep of the Red Guards (the BOlshevik reyolu- tionary 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 i. the country as the antagOnistic atti- tude of the south of Russia and ST. beria to the existing (Russian) gov ernment Is troubling the German gov ernment" Four days later the same president of the German Imperial bank sent another 5.00O.0O0 rubles to the same address to provide for the sending of a Russian revolutionary leader to Vladivostok to get posses sion of the Japanese and American war materials" at that port, and if necessary to destroy them. A photo graph of his letter is given as docu- ment No 9.
 There were earlier payments, but probably none later thap these. None was necessary. By this time the loot of an empire lay open to the BOlshe- viks and the Germans.
 Most significant of all are the two photographs of further communica-