The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-09-16

Americans won the crisseross shad-
ere won in their initial assault.
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domination almost beyond the realm
of Imagination
Originals of documents, photo
graphs of originals and typewriter
circulars some of them marked very
secret" or private" and many of
them bearing the annoations of the
Bolsheviki leaders themselves; some
of them containing references to
"Comrade Trotsky" or 'fComrade Lee
nine" comprise the damning record.
Some of the originals, it is shown,
although deposited in the secret
archives of the Bolsheviki, were re-
quired to be returned later to repre-
sentatives of the German general staff
in Petrograd that they might be de-
stroyed. but evidence of them re
manned in the fabric of roughery and
into the vacancies they fit perfectly.
The Bolshevik leaders, themselves,
informed their comrades" that the
German government had required the
return of he order of the German I'M
perial Bank depositing 50,000,00 gold
roubles in a Stockholm bank for Lee
nine and Trotsky, and that ait the
same time the accounts of the bank
had been audited" to conceal the
payments.
The part played by the German I'm
perial Bank in financing the Russian
Bolsheviki movement, the care taken
by the German military authorities
to prevent spread among their own
people of the socialistic preaching OF
their Russian tools, and the plans laid
for German control of Russia econom-
ically and financially during and after
| the war feature the disclosures which
the American Government is making
public.
| Copies of the documents carry the
file numbers of the Reichsbank or OF
the German general staff, and in some
instances notations by Lenine and
Trotsky, the Bolsheviki leaders, now
shown to have been in the pay OF
Germany since long before they over
threw Russia's new democratic gov
eminent and virtually turned the
oucntry over to the Teuons. There
are Illuminating explanatory notes by
Edgar Sisson, of the Committee or
Public Information, who directed the
Investigation (which resulted in the
disclosures.
/ One of the Reichsbank memoranda
dated last January, announced to the
i Commissar of Foreign Affairs Ie
nine) that fifty million roubles of gold
has been placed to the credit at Stock
lholm of the representatives of the
commissars, TO cover the cost OF Red
Guards and agitators. Another of 6
few days later tells of a credit oil
five million roubles for the assistant
naval commissar in the Far East who
is entrusted with the task of carry
ing off or destroying the great Amer
lean and Japanese stores of war ma
terial at Vladivostok- scheme that
probably was well under way when
the landing of Americans and Allied
forces at Vadiyostok lended the sway
of the BoIsheyiki there. Z.
H A resolution adopted by the German
commercial banks, under the auspices
of the Reichsibank outlines an elab
crate program for control Of Russia
Iby Germany and the barring Of Amer
lea and the Allies from the Russian
commercial and Industrial field after
the war. What happened to this
scheme is not definitely known, bu,
tits suggested that it may be the sub
ject of one of he secret sections oil
the German-Bolshevik treaty.
4 How Lenine and Trotsky were be
traying heir socialist friends alone
with Russia is disclosed by sharr
note TO Lenine from the Nachrichter
bureau demanding to know what steps