The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-18
The Case Against the Bolsheviki
An Amazing Series of Official Documents; Pubs
lished by the American Government, Prev A
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Document No. is the original protocol signed
by several Bolshevik leaders and dated November
2, 1917, showing that on instructions of the rep
resentatives Of the German general staff in Pet
rograd' and with the consent of the council of
peoples commissars" Of which Trotzky and Len
inc were the heads, two incriminating German
circulars had also been taken from the depart
ment of secret service of the Petrograd district"
and given to the secret service department of the
German general staff in Petrograd. On the bot
tom of the protocol the German adjutant acknowI-
edges receipt of the two discriminating circulars
with his cipher signature. And to complete the
evidence the circulars are themselves penciled
with the cipher signature of the head of the Ger
man secret service bureau
These two circulars apparently had been OBJ
tanned by some Russian agent in Germany and
evidently wished to get them back in order to
destroy them. BY the order of the German gem
oral staff and with the consent of Lenine and
Trotzky they are turned over to the Germans to
be destroyed. Why? Because they are conclus-
i've proof that on June g., 1914, the German gov
before the assassination of the Austrian arch
duke which was made the pretext for war.
One circular is an order from the German gen.
eral staff, dated June 8, 1914, informing AL in
dustrial concerns" in Germany to open the sealed
envelopes containing their industrial mobiliza-
ton plans and registration forms so that they
might be prepared for the war for which the
excuse had not yet been found.
The second circular is an order from the Ger
general staff of the High Sea fleet dated
November 2S, 1914 calling for the mobilization
of "a destructive agents and observers in the
United States and Canada for the purpose of
preventing the sailing of ships from American
ports to Russia France and England The order
calls for explosions, strikes delays embroil-
ments and difficulties" and it recommends the
employment of anarchists and escaped Grimm
ais for the purpose.
1t is these damning proofs of German con-
spracy against the nations of Europe in June,
1914 and against the United States in Novem-
Der, 1914-it is shown that Lenine and Trotzky
surrendered to the German secret service in Pet
rograd order of the representatives of the
German general staff in Petrograd". ..
And they surrender them in conformity with a
working agreement between the BolsheVik lead
ers and the German general staff, of which
agreement a photograph is included in the series
as document No. s.
1t is dated October, 1917. 1t is from division
of the German general staff 1t is addressed to
the council Of the peoples commisars, of which
Lenine and Trotzky were the heads. 1t begins
In accordance with the agreement which took
place in Kronstadt, in July Of the present year,
between officials of our general staff and lead
ers of the Russian revolutionary army and
democracy Messrs. Lenine and Trotzky, Rasol-
nilov and Dybenko, the Russian division of our
general staff operating in Finland is ordering To
Petrograd officers for the disposal of the infor
nation department of the staff. Among the Of
ficers named are Major Luberts, whose cipher
signature is given as it appears on the two
rendered German circulars mentioned above
document No 3D. and Lieutenant HartWig,
whose cipher signature is given as it appears
the receipt for the two circulars And an indorse-
ment on this letter from the German general
staff records that the German officers assigned
to Petrograd had appeared before the military
revolutionary committee" and had agreed
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what their mutual activities" were to be is
sufficiently indicated by document No. T. which
Is a photograph of a letter signed in cipher by
this Major Luberts and his adjutant, Lieutenant
Hartwig. They notify the Bolshevik leaders on
January IL, 1918, that "by order Of the German
general STAFF the German intelligence section"
has informed us of the names and the character
istics of the main candidates for reelection to
the Russian Bolshevik central executive COM
mittee" and 'the general staff orders to insist
on the election of the following people, they add
a list Of Russian leaders satisfactory to the Ger
man general staff. The list is headed by Trot
zISy and Lenine. They were elected, ard the rest
OF the present Bolshevik executive committee
were chosen from the same German list.
ITO be continuedl