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Show SECRFJ PLOTTING AGAINST U. S. Documents Passing Between the Bolsheviki and the Germans Ger-mans Published. HUNS MAKE DEMANDS Regular Propaganda Launched Against America, France and England by Socialists. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 Secret activities ac-tivities aaginst the United States and the allies of the German paid and controlled Russian Bolsheviki government govern-ment are the subject of today's chapter chap-ter of confidential documents from Russia given to the public by the American government. One of the documents, a terse note from tho German general staff to the Council of People's Commissars, discloses dis-closes that as long ago as November, 1917, when the Russian regime still was regarded as an ally of the nations at war with Germany, the Germans were brusquely requiring Lenine and Trotzky to furnish information regarding regard-ing (he amounts and places of storage of supplies received by Russia from America, England ind France. Others tell of the launching in January Jan-uary and February this year of a Bolshevik Bol-shevik peace and Socialistic propaganda propagan-da against the United Stales, England and France, at the direction, of the German intelligence service. This was at the very time that Scheidemann, the powerful German Socialist and world socialism apostle, was in communication com-munication with his Russian brothers "regarding the destruction of the tra ces ol me party s uusidcss relations with the imperial government." The intelligence service required the Bolsheviki to send to tho allied countries through neutral Europe "comrades" under assumed names and with false neutral passports, to preach their doctrine of disorganization and to carry on campaigns of "counter-1 revolution, sabotage, looting, etc." Plans of the Germans for sending) three 'submarines, disassembled, by rail overland to Vladivostok for service on the Pacific are disclosed in a communication com-munication of the German high seas fleet general staff to the commissars. Another of the naval communications reveals a scheme conceived in January Jan-uary of employing Russian ships on the Pacific under the Russian flag to carry agitators and "agents-destructors" to the United States, Japan and the British colonies in eastern Asia. Personal notes from the German intelligence in-telligence service to the commissars describe the assault upon and robbery of the Italian ambassador in the streets , of Petrograd in February last in a ! vain effort to gel possession of important impor-tant papors believed to have been in the ambassador's possession. Other notes tell in detail of the watch kept upon the American and other allied embassies. Like the remainder of the documents of the series, those made public today, are accompanied by notes explaining which are originals and which photographic photo-graphic copies, and by explanatory comments by Edgar Sisson, who obtained ob-tained the correspondence in Russia for4he committee on public information. informa-tion. The part played by the German im perial bank in financing the Russian Bolsheviki movement, the care taken by the German military autlibrities to prevent spread among their own people peo-ple of the socialist preaching of their Russian tools, and the plans laid for German control of Russia economically and financially during and after the war, feature "the disclosures in the second Installment of the sensational series of secret documents which the American government is making public. pub-lic. Copies of the documents, given out tonight carry the file numbers of the Richsbank or of the German general staff, and in some instances notation by Lenine or Trotzky. the Bolsheviki leaders now shown to have been in the pay of Germany since long before they overthrew Russia's new democratic (tnvurnmont fi iwl virtimllv tnrnoil Oif. country over to the Teutons. There are illuminating explanatory notes by Edgar Ed-gar Sisson, of the committee on public pub-lic information, who directed the investigation in-vestigation which resulted in the disclosures. dis-closures. One of the relchsbank memoranda, dated last January, announces to the commissioner of foreign affairs, (k-nine) (k-nine) that 60,000,000 rubles of gold has been placed to the credit at Stockholf of the representatives of the commls-sairs commls-sairs lo cover the cost of Red Guards and agitators. Another of a few days later tells of a credit of 5,000,000 rubles rub-les for the assistant naval commissair in the far east, who is entrusted with the task of carrying off or destroying tho great American and Jnpaneae stores or war materials at Vladivostok a scheme that probably was well underway when the landing of American Ameri-can and allied forces at Vladivostok ended the sway- of the Bolsheviki there. A resolution adopted by the German commercial banks under tho auspices of the relchsbank outlines an elaborate elabo-rate program for control of Russia by Germany and the barring of America and the allies from the Russian commercial com-mercial and industrial field after tho war. What ha's happened to . this scheme is not definitely known, but It is suggested that it may be the subject of one of tho .secret sections of the German Bolsheviki treaty. How Lenine and Trotzky were betraying be-traying their Socialist friends along with 'Russia, is disclosed by a sharp note to Lenine from the Nachrichten bureau, demanding to know what stepG he would tnko lo make good his personal per-sonal promise that socialistic and agitational agi-tational literature would not be circulated circu-lated among German troops. Trotzky wrote on the margin "I ask to discuss it L. T." The concluding document of the installment in-stallment Is a German warning on January 29 to Lenine that unknown agitators were circulating propaganda telling in advauce of the plans of the Bolsheviki to openly surrender to tho Germans as they actually did later. Amazing Things Revealed Proofs removing any doubts that Lenine and Trotzky, the Bolsheviki leaders, are paid German agents if Indeed any doubts remain arc laid before the world by the United States Government In the first installment of an amazing scries of official docu- menls disclosed through the committee commit-tee on public information. Secured in Russia by American agents, these documents not only show how the German government, through its imperial bank paid its gold to Lenine. Trotzky and. their immediate immed-iate associates- lo betray Russia into deserting her allies, but gave added proofs, if any be necessary, that Germany Ger-many had perfected her plans for a war of world conqifest long before the assassinations at Saravejo, which as the world is now convinced conveniently conven-iently furnished her pretext. These documents further show that before the world war was four months old, and more than two years before the United States was drawn into it. Germany already was setting afoot hor plans to "mobilize destructive agents and observers," to cause explosions, strikes and outrages in this country and planned the employment of anarchists anar-chists and escaped criminals," for the purpose. Almost ranking in their sensational nature with the notorious Zimmermnn note proposing wnr by Mexico and Japan Ja-pan updn the United States, which was first given to the world through the Associated Press, these documents lay bare a new strata of Prussian intrigue, a new view of the workings of ku'tur to disrupt the allies, standing between the world and kaiserism. They disclose dis-close a new story of human treachery for gold which might almost well be described without sacrilege as placing plac-ing its perpetrators on a pedestal with Judas and his 30 pieces of silver. The intrigue appears to have been carried down to the last detail of arrangement ar-rangement with typical German system. sys-tem. It will be revealed completely In a series of seven articles furnished by tho committee on public information informa-tion each morning beginning today until the series is complete. Not only do the disclosures prove that Lenine, Trotzky and their band are paid German agents. They show that the Bolsheviki revolution which threw Russia into such orgy of murder mur-der and excesses as the world seldom has seen, actually was arranged by the German general staff, Theyshow how tho paid agents of Germany betrayed Russia at the Brest -Litovsk "peace" conference; how German staff officers secretly have been received by the Bolsheviki as military advisers; how .they have acted as spies upon the embassies em-bassies Qf the nations with which Russia Rus-sia was allied or at peace, how they effectually have directed the Bolsheviki Bolshe-viki foreign, domestic and economic .nllmr .!. -.II. t in I U r. inlnr.vr.. nr l many and the shame and degradation of Russia. They show how a picked German commander was detailed lo "defend" Petrograd against the German army and an extent of German intrigue and domination almost beyond tho realm of imagination. Originals of documents, photographs of originals and typewritten circulars, some of them marked "very secret" or "private" arid many of them bearing bear-ing the annotations of the Bolsheviki leaders themselves; some containing references to "comrade Trotzky," or "comerado Lenine," comprise the damning record. Some of the originals, origin-als, it is shown, although deposited in the secret archives of the Bolsheviki, Bolshe-viki, were required to be returned later la-ter to representatives of the German general staff in Petrograd that they might be destroyed. But evidences of them remained In the fabric of roguery rog-uery and into the vacancies they fit perfectly. The Bolsheviki leaders themselves informed their "comrades" that the German government had required re-quired the return of the order of the Gorman imperial bank depositing 50,-000,000 50,-000,000 gold rubles In a Stockholm bank for Lenine and Trotzky, and that at the same time the accounts of the bank had been "audited" to conceal the payments. The first installment of the revelations revela-tions appearing herewith is prefaced by an official statement by the committee com-mittee on public information, which tells briefly what, the succeeding installments in-stallments of documents will prove. This official resume of the disclose says: |