The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-03-21
BOLSHEv|KI CHIEFS
PAID BY THE KAISER
Lenine and Trotzky Said to Have.
Received Large Sums.
HUN FINANCED RUSS REVOLT
Partisan Journal Names Persons
Gives Amounts Paid and Dates in
Conspiracy Allegation--Action
Preceded Revolution.

Paris, March 20.-The Petit Parisen,-
an Important Paris newspaper, makes
public what purports to be new
series of remarkable secret German
documents obtained by Bernard Taft.
one Of its contributing editors, from "A
member of the Maximalist government
in Russia.
Among them are a number of letters,
directed by officials of the Deutsche'
bank of Berlin and the Rhenish-West-
phalia mine owners syndicate to CORE
pondents in Stockholm, Copenhagen
nd elsewhere authorizing the payment
# large sums of money to Lenine and
'ther revolutionary leaders for the
urtherance of their movement.
On three orders alone no less than
$l7L750 is alleged to have been paid
to Lenine. Trotzky is mentioned in
one of these letters us Conrad" Trot-
zky.
one letter ostensbly signed by
Scheidemann, the German socialist
leader, forwarded $3S,5OO, and men
tons the name of Maxim Gorky. the
noted Russian socialist and writer.
Action Preceded Russ Revolution.
The documents from the Rhensh-
WeStphalian syndicate would appear
TO show that as early as March ,,
1917, two weeks prior TO the outbreak
of the Russian revolution, the German
Imperial bank notified its agents in
Switzerland that all demands by Lee
nine, TrotZky and other Russian pO-
litical refugees for money for the pur
pose of revolutionary agitation in Rus
STA should be honOred without comment
or question.
In a communication addressed by
Krich Of the Deutsche bank TO Furs-
tenberg at StOckhOlm-the fiscal rep
resentative of Germany In Sweden
we have the following document, which
was dated Geneva, June Is, 1917
ITO Nj. Furstenberg, at Stockholm:
Sir request you to take note
that on demand of Mr.. Katz on the
syndicate's account sum of $1,000
francs (S16.000.000) mas been handed
over for the publication of Maximalist
socialist pamphlets. Please acknowl-
edge by telegram 10 name of Decker,
the arrival of pamphlets. together with
the number and date of receipt.
(Signed) "KRICH.
"Deutsche Bank"
Ge-ky Named in Letter.
In another letter signed by Herr
Scheidemann, socialist leader in the
German Reichstag, we read the follow.
ing:
Berlin, August %, 1917.
ITO NJ. Oldberg:
The desire expressed by you, based
on your correspondence with Maxim
Gorky, responds entirely to the party's
intentions. In agreement with the per
son you know, we place at your dis
posal through the Mia Banker NJ.
Furstenberg, the sum Of 10000 marks
(nomnally S3S,500). Kindly let Vor-
waerts know everything written by
Maxim Gorky's journal in the sense Of
the movement. Fraternal greetings.
(Signed) "SCHEIDEMANN."
Every one remembers how Lenine.
returned from Switzerland to Russia
through Germany, in train placed at
his disposal by the kaiser, and how
suspicious deposits of money were dis
covered in Russian banks under the
name of Friends of Lenine."
Here is alleged proof that Lenine
was Germany's paid agent. The syn
dictate" mentioned IN the following doe
ument Is the syndicate of "Rhenish-
Westphalia Mine Owners" The next
document reads
81. Copenhagen, June IS, 1917.
"To Nj. Ruffer, at Helsingfors:
,"Sir-I inform you hereby that on
order of the syndicate sum of 315,.-
600 marks (nominally $4,000. has
been paid by the Diskonto Gesellchaft
to the account of NJ. Lenine at Kron-
stadt. Kindly acknowledge to NJ. NJ.
Hansen & Co., 9S Nilandswey, Copen-
hagen.
(Signed) "SVENSON."'
After Lenine and his party had been
conducted through Germany, another
SOL $50 was handed 10 them on their
way to Petrograd.