The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-15

imperial capitalism and the pretended
Russian Reds Ia Endorsed by a Bolshevik
leader, with the recommendation that II
should be taken under adivsement' and
the ground prepared In the Soviet OF the
workmen's and soldiers deputies in case
the council Of peoples commssars will
not accede to these requests
Various details of the conspiracy be-
tween the Bolshevik leaders and the
German general staff are exposed In
documents 16 to 80. These are photo
graphs Of letters which passed between
the Bolshevik leaders and the German
general staff. or the German officers In
Russia. Document No. 81 shows that on
November ], 1917, when Russia was still
regarded as an ally of Great Britain,
France and America the German gen.
eral staff was having the honor to re-
quest the Bolshevik leaders to inform
n at the earliest possible moment con-
corning the quantity and storage place
Of the supplies that have been received
from America, England, and France, and
also the units which are keeping guard
over the stores
Document Is shows the German Cen
eral Staff requiring the Bolshevik lead
ers to send 'agitators to the camps OF
the Russian prisoners Of war in Ger
many in order that they might procure
spies to work among the English and
French troops and to further peace
propa ganda.' And this Is proposed by
the German General Stan as being 'ac-
cording to the negotiations between the
Russian and German peace delegations
at Brest-Litovsk.
I'm Document % the Bolshevik leaders
| and the Germans are arranging to send
agents, agitators and agent-destructors'
out of Vladivostok to ports of the
| United States. Japan and British COL
onies in Eastern Asia
"In Document 16 Trotsky is providing
fraudulent passports for German officers
who are going to England. France and
| America as spies and enemy agents.
| And Document II shows Trotsky indors-
ing similar proposal 10 be urgently
| executed. L. T.
List of Spies Disclosed.
Three German submarines are to be
! sent to the Pacific on the trans Siberian
Railway by orders of the German High
Command in Document No. 20. Lists of
| German and Russian spies watching the
British. French and American embassies
in Petrograd are given in Document No.
| rs. And, finally. in Document No. Is the
Bolshevik leaders are warned that infor-
nation concerning the connection OF the
German Government with the Bolshevik
workers has leaked out and that Rus
sian troops are hearing OF It,
Letters are given to show how the
| Bolshevik leaders and the German Off
| GERS arranged for the assassination OF
Russian Nationalist leaders. for the de-
struction Of the Polish legionaries in the
| Russian army, for the disorganzation OF
Roumaniana army and the deposing OF
| the Roumanian King, for the substitu-
ton of officers satisfactory to Germany
| in command of Russian troops instead
Of patriotic Russian Generals, for the
suppression Of patriotic agitation among
the Russian soldiers, for an attack upon
the Italian Ambassador in Petrograd
| employment Of German soldiers in Rus
sian uniforms against the Russian ma
| tional armies in the south.
Arch Traitor Signs Letters.
Several Of the letters are Endorsed by
Trotsky. Even standing alone, they are
complete proof that the Bolshevik lead
| ers were ruling as German agents In
Russia and obeying German orders to
act against all Germany's enemies and
even against Russia itself.
| Moreover, these Bolshevik leaders
acted as German agents by suppressing
| their own socialist revolution in the Rus
| sian provinces where their doctrines in
terfered with German plans of annexa-
ton. Document 46 Is the original letter
from the Petrograd department of the
German General Stan. addressed to the
Bolshevik Commissar of Foreign Affairs
It reads According to instructions OF
the representative OF our General Staff
I have the honor once more to insist that
you recall from Estand. Litva and
Courland all agitators of the Central
Executive Committee Of the Soviet OF
workmen and Soldiers Deputies And
in Document ~ the General Stan orders
the Bolsheviki to cease the agitation In
Estland which had finally led to the
German landlords being declared out
lawed.' and to take immediate steps for
the restoring OF the rights Of the above
mentioned German landlords
Another group Of letters shows how
the Germans cheated the Bolshevik lead
ers in their dealings with the Ukraine
and made a separate German peace witt
the anti-Bolshevik leaders in that Rus
sian province. And another group shows
the Germans assisting both sides OF the
civil war in Finland"