The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-21
FURTHER PROOF
AGAINST GERMANY
Published Documents Show She Was
Planning World War Weeks Be-
fore Sarajevo Murder

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2O-Anotber
convincing link in the proof that Ger
many was preparing to start a war of
world conquest at least, six weeks be
fore the excuse for 1t was offered by
the assassination of the Austrian heir APP
parent NJ Saraievo, concludes the amaz-
ing series of disclosures which the
American government has given to the
public through secret documents brought
out Of Russia.
Two authenticated documents are in
cludcd in the final chapter of. the story
which began week ago with evidence
removing any doubt that may have ex-
listed that the Russian Bolshevik gov
eminent headed by Lenine and Trot
ky is a tool of the Imperial German
government. One of these is an orig
inal circular from the German general
staff dated Jane 9, 1914, directing that
all industrial concerns be notified to
open their secret instructions for in
dustrial mobilization. Another dated
November 20 1914, is from the Ger
man naval general staff, and reveals
that within four months after hostili-
ties began in Europe, 4" destruction
agent" were orderd to Canada and the
United States to hire anarchists and
escaped criminals for the bomb plots
and work of terror which finally played
a part in drawing the United States
into the war.
In addition to this authenticated evil
dcnce. Edgar Sisson, who obtained the
papers for the committee on public in
formation, offers a remarkable group of
circulars put in Russian text at Petro-
grad last winter purporting to be copies
of documents taken from the archives
of the counter espionage bureau of the
kerensky government, supplemented by
some from the files of the same bureau
i before the fall of the Gar. Some of
this matter has been published previous
| ~ in France and in this country The
| circulars tell of German arrangements
| six months before the outbreak of the
war for the establishment of the finan.
cial agencies in bordering neutral coun-
| tries which later furnished the money
for the operations of the Bolshcviki;
| of orders to German banks to establish
| close and secret relations with Ameri-
/ can and Finnish banks: of the launch
4 ing OF revolutionary propaganda against
4 the Gar S government in Russia as
carly as November, 1914. and of instruc-
tions to German diplomats in all neu-
/ trail countries to cooperate with agen-
cieS set up in those countries for stir
ring up social unrest, strikes and senti-
ment against war, within the enemy
/ states.
The name of Scheidemann. the Ger.
man Socialist leader, already mentioned
ls involved in the dealings of the Ger
/ man government with the Bolsheviki
/ appears attached to one of the unau.
/ thentlcated documents. 1t is a note an.
nouucing that one hundred and fifty
thousand kroners have been placed to
the credit of Russian newspaper and
asking that Norwaerts (the name of
Scheidcmann 5 organ at Berln) be ad
vised of what appeared in the subsi
died JOURNAL
An appendix to the concluding install
ment IS what purports to be a tran
script of unique Geographic converse
ton between Tchitcherin, now Bolshe
vik foreign minister at Petrograd an,
Trotzky at Brest-Litovsk last February
few days before Trotzky made hi
notorious emo peace-no war; plav
Tehltcherin is quoted as promising tina,
separate peace by Russia would no
cause a rupture with the allies an,
saying that England and America ar,
playing up to us separately