Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-18
SOVIET ENVOY
 TELLS OF PLOTS
 AGAINST RUSSIA
Martens Says He Plotted for
 Years With Lenine and TrOtzky.

/ New York, Nov. 17.-That he had plotted in Germany and Switzerland with Leon Trotzky and Nickolai Lenin for the overthrow of the Rus sian Imperial government and that he was deported from Russia after serving three years in prison in Ger many for revolutionary activities, was given in testimony here today by Ludwig c. A. K. Martens, "am- bassador of the Russiet soviet repub- lic" Martens gave his testimony be- fore the Lusk committee, lnvestlgat- ing radical activities.
 At the time of his arrest in Rus sia, he was a student at the techno- logical institute in St. Petersburg where he studied engineering. It was early in the s90's, he said, he became associated with Russian student bod ies and became interested in Marxian socialistic theories. Lenine was a member of the same student body and both were imprisoned for their activities in behalf of Russian work CTS, he said. Lenine was exiled to Siberia and Martens himself deport- ed to Germany after serving three years in jail.
 He testified he was one of the leaders of the revolution in Russia in 1905 and 1906 and directed propa- ganda from Berlin for the overthrow of the Czar's government. This tes- timony was brought out in an effort to show that the collapse of the Rus sian government was the result of German plot.
 Martens stated that on his arrival in Berlin, he was pressed into the German military service and served in barracks.
 "On what theory did the German military authorities press you into the army?" he was asked.
 Worked With Lenine.
 Because my father and mother were German citizens" he replied.
 On leaving the army, he entered Charlottenberg Polytechnical Insti- ture in Germany, he said, and later became an engineer in the employ of a Hamburg firm. For twelve years, he was engaged in propagan-' da work, plotting the overthrow of the Russian government f-c-a Cc~- many, he said. During this period, he testified, he conferred with Len inc and Trotzky, in 1901, in Switzer- land, and in 1903, in Berlin. Part of the propaganda was matched in France and Switzerland. he added.
 He was organizer of the Russian workmen in the revolution in Rus sia in 1905, he said, and added that his activities were not interferred with in Germany.
 "Were you under pay when you were in Switzerland consulting with Lenine" Martens was asked. "I was working as an engineer, he answered.
 His conference with Lenine was for the purpose of bringing together, the bolsheviki and menshiviki for concerted action against the Czar's government he said.
 Martens told the committee he came to this country in 1916. Asked what citizenship he claimed, he said: "I claimed German citizenship. l was forced to-"
 He explained that the British au- thorities, despite the fact that he claimed Russian citizenship, made him register as a citizen of Germany He was classified as a Russian, he said, but was technically German. He failed to register as an enemy alien, he testified.
 He formally acquired Russian cit izenship in May or June, 1917, when he was informed of his new allegi- ance by a relative in Russia. He originally applied for citizenship, as a boy of IT,, he said, but he had been refused. MMA 1 Now a Communist. ! Archibald E. Stevenson. associate counsel for the committee, read a copy of the communist manifesto, which appealed to all workers to rise in social revolution against capital ist governments. Martens admitted that he was a member of the com munist party.
 MT. Stevenson called the attention of the witness to the fact that the manifesto called for reign of ter TOT and violence" and asked him if he subscribed to it.
 1 Martens replied that the soviet government only advocated that pol icy as a defensive measure. 1 Following examination, MT. Stev- enson issued a statement in which he said the testimony of Martens "in- dicates clearly that the Russian so- viet republic seeks the overthrow of every organized government through out the world"
 l "It is interesting to note" he said ''that the communist party of Amer ica pledges it's members to support the communist internationale. Added interest is given to the situation by thee opinion of Chief Magistrate Me Adoo in holding that all members o1 fho oo,,, ,,,nnist no rtu of m anrica arr