Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21

at Saraievo, concludes the
which the American govern,
through secret documents bro
Two authentical documents are in
Guided in the final chapter of the
story which began a week ago with
evidence removing any doubt that
may have existed that the Russian
bolshevik government headed by
Lenlne and Trotzky, is tool of the
imperial German government. One
OF these is an original circular from
the German staff dated June 9, 1914,
directing that al! industrial concerns
be notihed to open their secret in
structions for industrial mobiliza-
ton. Another dated Nov. 20, 1914,
is from a German naval general staff
and reveals that within four months
after hostilities began in Europe
destruction agents" were ordered
to Canada and the United States to
hire anarchists and escaped crimi-
nails for the bomb plots and work of
terror which finally played a part
in drawing the United States into
the war.
Early Financial Plans.
In addition to this authenticated
evidence Edgar Sisson, who OBJ
tanned the papers for the committee
on public information, offers a re-
markable group of circulars put out
in Russian text at Petrograd last
winter purporting to be copies Of
documents taken from the archives
of the counter-espionage bureau of
the Kerensky government, supple
mented by some from the files of the
same bureau before the fall of the
car. Some of this matter had been
published previously in France and
in this country.
The circulars tell of German ar
rangements six months before the
outbreak of war for the establish
ment of the financial agencies i'll
bordering neutral countries which
later furnished the money for the
operations of the bolsheviki; of or
ders to German banks to establish
close and secret relations with Amer
lean and Finnish banks ;of the launch
ing or revolutionary propaganda
against the cars government in Rus
STA as early as November, 1914. and
OF instructions to German diplomats
in all neutral countries to cooperate
with a general arrangement set up III
those countries for stirring up So
cial unrest, strikes and sentiment
against war within the enemy
states.
Russian Paper Bought.
The name of Scheidemann, the
German socialist leader, already
mentioned as involved in the deal
ings of the German government
with bolsheviki appears attached to
one of the unathenticated docu-
inents. 1t is a note announcing that
10000 kroners have been placed to
the credit of Russian newspaper
and asking that Vorwaerts (thc
name of Scheidemanns organ at
Bcrlin) be advised of what appeared
in the subsidized journal.
An appendix to the concluding IN
stallment is what purports to be a
transcript of a unique telegraphic
conversation between Tchitcherin
now bolsheviki foreign minister al
petrograd, and Trotsky, at Brest'
Litovsk last February a few days
before Trotsky made his notorious
"ro peace-no war" play. Tchit-
cherin is quoted as promising a
separate peace by which Russia
would not cause a rupture with the
allies and saying that England and
America are playing up to US separ'
ately."
Appendix I.
This appendix is OF circular Of
which Except in two noted cases) ]
have neither originals nor authenti
Gated copies. A number of sets o.
! them were put out in Russia text II
Petrograd and other parts OF Eussl;
in the winter (l9l8) by the oppon
ents of the Bolsheviki. The circu
lars were declared to be copies o.
documents taken from the counter
espionage bureau of the kerensky
government, supplemented by some
eaflier material from the same bu
reau when it was under, the imperia
government The opportunity fol
securing them could easily have beer
afforded to the agents and employ
ees of the bureau, for most of then
walked out when the Bolshevik
grasped the government and coulc
have taken freely of the content!
of their departments.
Some of the documents were in
cluded in the publication made il
Paris, hitherto referred to.
The simple test that / have ap
piled to the circulars is that of in
ternal analysis. TO that they re
spond with, ut contradiction. | hav,
not relied on them as proof, but the,
fit to other fabrics of proof, and il
the light. of it are more valuable 10
themselves than they were whel
they stood alone. @
Finally, | am now able to prov,
that two of the documents amons
these circulars-the circular of in
iustrial mobilization of June 9. 1914
and the agents destruction circular
Of November 28, 19l4-are authentic
/ have them in the original Ger
man printed version OF their Off
cial distribution, and l have tn,
doubly attested Russian and Ger
man record that they, in preceding
time, reposed in the files of tn,
secret service of the Russian gov
eminent, from which they were tax
m by German order and turned owe
o German representatives of tn,
German government in Petrogra,
with the intent of eliminating then
as international evidence against
Germany. (See Document 3 of m,
Report)
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