Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-18
EXPOSE OF RUSSIAN RULERS AS AGENTS OF HUN IS MADE
 BY OUR STATE DEPARTMENT
Most Remarkable Group of Documents Published Since Famous Zimmerman Series Was Made Public by Wash ington, Show Absolutely That Lenin, Trotzy and Their Associates Are and Have Been in German Pay Since Be ginning of Internal Troubles in Torn Nation

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 | for publication herewith a series of communications between the German Imperial government and the Russian Eclsheyik government and between the Bolsheviks themselves. and also the report therein made to George Creel by Edgar Sisson, the commit tees special representative in Russia | during the winter of 1917-191S.
 These documents show that the | present heads of the Bolshevik gov ernment-Lenin. Trotzky and their associates-are German agents. They show that the Bolshevik revolution was arranged for by the German great general staff and financed by the Ger man Imperial bank and other German financial institutions.
 They show that the treaty of Brest- Litovsk was a betrayal of the Rus sian people by the German agents, Lenin and Trotzky; that a German picked commander was chosen to de fend" Petrograd against the Germans; that German officers have been sec retly received by the Bolshevik gov ernment as military advisers, as spies upon the embassies of Russia's allies; as officers in the Russian navy and as directors of the BOlshevik mili- tary, foreign and domestic policy. They show, in short, that the present Bolshevik government is not Rus sian government at all, but a Ger man government, acting solely in the interests of Germany and betraying the Russian people, as 1t lbetrays Russia's natural allies, for the bene- fit of the Imperial German govern ment alone.
 And they show also that the Bol shevik leaders, for the same Ger man imperial ends, have equally be- trayed the working classes of Russia whom they pretended to represent.
 The documents are some seventy in number. Many are originals, annotat- ed by Bolshevik officials. The bal ance of the others are photographs of originals, showing annotations. And they corroberate a third set of type written circulars (see appendix later) of which only two originals are possessed, but all of which it per fectly into the whole pattern of Ger man intrigue and German guilt.
 The first document is a photograph of a repart made to the Bolshevik leaders by two of their assistants, in forming them that in accordance with their instructions, there had been re- moved from the archives of the Rus sian ministry of justice, the order of the German Imperial bank, allowing money to Conrade Lenin and Trot- zky and others for the propaganda of peace in Russia; and that, at the same time, "all the books" of bank in Stockholm had been audited to conceal the payment of money to Lenin, Trotzky and their associates by order of the German Imperial bank.
 This report is endorsed by Lenin, with his initials, for deposit in "the secret department" of the Bolshevik files, and the authenticity of the re- port is supported by Document No. 7, which is the original of report sent by German general staff representa- tives to the Rolshevik leaders, warn ing them that he had just arrested an agent who had in his possession the original order of the German I'm perial bank referred to in document No. 1 and pointing out that evidently "at the proper time steps were not taken to destroy the above mentioned documents"
 Document No. 8 is the original proto- col signed by several Bolshevik lead CTS and dated November 2. 1917, show ing that "on instructions of the rep resentatives of the German general staff in Petrograd" and with the con- sent of the council of peoples com missioners' of which Trotzky and Le- min were the heads, two incrlminat- ing German circulars mad also been taken from the department of sec ret service of the Petrograd district and given to the secret service depart ment of the German general stan ID Petrcgrad. On the bottom of the pro tocol the German adjutant acknowl- edges receipt of the two discriminating circulars with his cipher signature. And to complete the evidence the cir culars are themselves penciled with the cipher signature of the heads ot the German secret service bureau.
 These two circulars apparently haf been obtained by some Russian agent in iGermeny and transmitted to Rus gla. me GeIudl EGnti dl oN~A- N'- dently wished to- get them back, m order to destroy them. By the order of the German general staff and with the "consent" of Lenin and Trotzky they are turned over to the Germans to be destroyed. Why? Because they are conclusive proof that on June g. 1914. the German government was pre-
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