Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16

Washington, Sept. 16. - Docu-
ments showing that the present
heads of the Bolshevik government
Lenine and Trotzky, and their asso-
ciates, are German agents, are in
the hands of the United States gov
ernment. The Committee on Public
Information yesterday released
series of communication between
the German Imperial Government
and the Russian Bolshevik govern
mont and between the BolsheViks
themselves which show that the
Bolshe evik revolution was arranged
for by the German Great General
staff and financed by the German
Imperial Bank and other financial
institutions of the Kaiser.
These communications disclose
that the treaty of Brest-Livotsk was
a betrayal of the Russian people by
Lenine and Trotzky.
That a German-picked COM
mander was chosen to defend
Petrograd against the Germans.
That German officers have Sc
cretly been received by the Bolshe-
vik government as military advisers,
as spies upon TIE embassies of Rus
sia's allies, as officers in the Russian
army, and as directors of the Boil
shevik military, foreign and domes-
tic policy
Bolsheviks Kaiser's Agents.
That the present BolsheVik gov
ernment is not Russian govern
ment at all, but a German govern
ment, acting solely in the interest
of Germany and betraying the Rus
sian people, as it betrays RUSSIA
natural allies, for the beneht OF the
German Imperial Government.
10 RolshaNilS leaders, for
the same German Imperial ends
have equally betrayed the Socialist
doctrines which they pretend to rep
= resent.
> The documents are some 70 in
number. Many are original docu-
ments annotated by BolsheVik OIL
cials. The remainder of the others
are photographs of originals snow
ing annotations: and they corrobo-
rate a third set of typewriter cir
culars of which only two originals
are possessed. but all of which mt
perfectly into the whole pattern OF
German intrigue and guilt.
Money For Traitors
The first document, photograph
of a report made to the BolsheVlk
leaders by two of their assistants,
informs them that in accordance
with their instructions, there had
been removed from the archives of
the Russian Ministry of Justice the
order of the German Imperial Bank
allowing money to Comrades Len
inc, Trotsky, and others for the
propaganda of peace in Russia"
and that, at the same time, all the
books" of a bank in Stockholm had
been audited" to conceal the pay
ment of money to Lenine, Trotsky,
and their associates by the order OF
tho Garn1an I'm Derial Bank.
This report is endorsed by.Lenine
with his initials for deposit in the
secret department" of the Bolshevik
files. The authenticity of the report
is supported by Document No. 2, the
original of a report sent by Ger
man General Staff representative to
the Bolshevik leaders, warning them
he has just arrested an agent who
had the original order of the Ger
man Imperial Bank referred to in
Document No. 1, and pointing out
that evidently "at the proper time
steps were not taken to destroy the
above-m entioned documents"
Document No. 8, the original
protocol signed by several Bolshevik
leaders and dated Nov. 2, 1917,
shows that ION instructions of the
representatives of the German Gen
eral Staff in Petrograd" and with
the consent of the Council of Peo-
nle's eommissars" of which Trotsky
and Lenine We're the heads. two in
eliminating German circulars had
also been taken from the department
of secret service of the Petrograd
district" and given to the, secret
department of the German General
Staff in Petrograd. On the bottom
of the protocol the German adjutant
acknowledges receipt of the two in
eliminating circulars with his cipher
signature. To complete the eNi-
dcnce the circulars themselves are
penciled with the cipher signature
of the head of the German secret
service bureau.
These two circulars, apparently
obtained by some Russian agent in
Germany, were transmitted to Rus
sia. The German General Staff evil
detnly wished to get them back in
order to destroy them. BY order of
the German General Staff and with
the consent of Lenine and Trotsky
thew are turned over to the Germans
To he destroyed because they are
conclusive proof that on June g.,
1914, the German government was
preparing for war, several weeks be-
fore the assassination of the Aus
trian Archduke,. made the pretext
for war
! No Excuse For War, June o, 1914
One circular is an order from the
German General Staff, dated June 3,
1914, informing "all industrial con-
Germs" in Germany to open the seal
ed envelopes containing their indus
trial mobilization plans and registra-
ton forms" so that they might be
prepared for the war for which the
excuse had not yet been found.
The second circular is an order
from the German General Staff of
the High Sea Fleet dated Novem ber
2S, 1914, calling for the mobilization
of "all destructive agents and OBJ
servers in the United States and
Canada for the purpose of prevent
ing the sailing of ships from Ameri-
can ports to Russia, France and Eng
land. The order calls for explosions,
strikes, delays, embroilments and
difficulties" and it recommends the
employment of anarchists and es-
capped criminals" for the purpose.
Proofs of German Guilt
d. tH1zo 10 ~ ming nrn0fo Of n