THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 15, 1918. "
BOLSHEVIKI FINANCED BY GERMAN GOLD TO BETRAY RUSSIA
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by the committee on; public informa
tion for publication each morning be
ginning today, until the series is com
plete. . " -
Not only do the disclosures prove
that Lenine, Trotzky and their band
are paid German agents. They show
that the Bolshevik revolution which
threw Russia into such orgy of mur
der and excess as the world seldom
has seen, actually was arranged by
the German general staff.
-l I ; . Paid Agents Sell Russia.
' : They show how the 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 of
the nations with which Russia was
allied or at peace; how they effectually
have directed the Bolsheviki foreign,
domestic and economic policy wholly
In the Interest of Germany and to the I shown that Lenine and Trotzky sur-
are turned over to the Germans to storage place of the supplies that have
be 'destroyed. Why? Because they are
conclusive proof that on. June 9, 1914,
the German government was preparing
for war, several weeks before the as
sassination of the Austrian Archduke,
which was made the pretext for war.
One circular is an order from the
German general staff dated June 9,
1914, informing "all industrial con
cerns in Germany to open the sealed
envelopes containing their "industrial
mobilization 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 German general staff of the high
sea fleet, dated November 28, 1914,
calling for thf mobilization of. "all
destructive agents and observers" In
the United States and Canada for' the
purpose of preventing the sailing of
ships from American ports to Russia.
Prance and England. The order calls
for explosions, strikes, "delays, em
broilments and difficulties," and It
recommends the employment of "an-
archists and escaped criminals" for the
purpose.
Proof of Conspiracy Damning.
In these damning proofs of a Ger
man conspiracy against the nations of
Europe in June, 1914, and against the
United States in .November. 1914. It is
hame and degradation of Russia.
They show how a picked German
commander was - detailed to "defend'
Petrograd against the German army
and an extent of German Intrigue and
domination almost beyond the realm
of imaelnatinn.
' "Very Secret Documents Bared.
Originals of documents, photographs
f originals and typewritten circulars,
. stome of them marked "very secret" or
"private" and many of them bearing
the annotations of the Bolsheviki lead
. era themselves; some of them contain
.ing references to "Comrade Trotsky"
or 'Comrade Lenine" -comprise the
ydamning record. Some of the originals,
it Is shown, although deposited in the
secret archives of the Bolsheviki, were
required to be returned later to repre
sentatives of the German general staff
in Fetrograd that they might be de
stroyed. But evidence of them re
mained in the fabric of roguery
nd into the vacancies they fit per
fectly. The Bolsheviki leaders them
selves Informed their "comrades" that
the German government had required
the return of the order of the German
Imperial bank depositing 50,000,000
gold rubles in a Stockholm bank for
'Lenine and Trotzky,, and that at th
lame time the accounts of the bank
had been "audited" to conceal the pay-
. xnents.
Dlaeloanres Are Outlined.
The first installment of the revela
tions appearing herewith Is prefaced
by an official statement by the com
mittee on public information which
tells briefly what the succeeding In
stalments of documents will prove.
This official resume of the disclosure
ays
The committee on pnblie Information
releases for publication herewith a se
ries of communications bewteen the
German Imperial government and the
Russian Bolshevik government and be
tween the Bolsheviki themselves, and
also the report thereon made to George
Creel by Edgar Sisson, the committee's
special representative in Russia during
the Winter of 1917-18.
These documents show that the pros
ent heads of the Bolshevik government
Lenine and Trotzky and' their associates-,
German agents
They show that the Bolshevik revo
lution was arranged for by the German
general staff and financed by the Ger
man Imperial Bank and other German
'. financial institutions.
GenuM 1-Hnaaee Bolshevik.
They show that the treaty of Brest
TJtovsk was a betrayal of the Russian
people by the German agents, Lenine
and Trotzky; that a German-picked
commander was chosen to "defend"
Fetrograd against the Germans; that
German officers have been 'secretly re
ceived by the Bolshevik government as
. military advisers, as spies upon the
. embassies of Russia's allies, as officers
in the Russian army and a director of
the Bolshevik military, foreign and do-
. znesuc policy.
Russia People Betrayed.
They show, in short, that the ores
' ent Bolshevik government Is not a
! Russian government at alL but
German government, acting solely in
' the Interests of Germany and betraying
- the Russian people, as It betrays -Rus
sia's natural allies, for the benefit of
the imperial German government alone.
And they show also that the Bolshe
vik leaders, for the same German Impe
rial ends, have equally betrayed the
working classes of Russia, whom they
. pretend to represent.
Intrigue and Gnllt Snows.
The documents are some 70 In num
ber. Many are originals, annotated by
Bolshevik officials. The balance of the
others are photographs of originals,
showing annotations. And they cor
roborate a third set of typewritten cir
culars (see appendix later), of which
' only two originals are possessed, but
all of which fit perfectly Into the
whole pattern of German intrigue and
German guilt.
The first document Is a photograph,
- of a report made to the Bolshevik
leaders by two of their -assistants in
forming them that in accordance with
their instructions, there had. been re
moved from the archives of the. Rus
sian Ministry of Justice the order of
the -German Imperial Bank "allowing
' money to Comrades Lenine. Trotxky
and others for the propaganda of peace
in Russia"; and that, at the same time,
"all the books" of a bank in Stock
holm had been "audited" to conceal the
payment of money to Lenine, Trotzky
and their associates by order of the
German Imperial Bank.
Authenticity la Proven.
This report is indorsed by Lenine,
with his initials, for deposit In "the
secret department" of the Bolshevik
files. And the authenticity of the re
port is supported by document No. . 2,
-which is the original of a report sent
by a German General Staff representa
tive to the Bolshevik leaders, warning
them that he has just arrested an agent
who had In his possession the original
order of the German Imperial Bank
referred to in document No. 1. and
pointing out that evidently - "at the
proper time steps were nox .taken to
destroy the above-mentioned docu
ments." Document No. 3 is the original pro
tocol signed by several Bolshevik lead
era and dated November 2. 1917. show
ing that "on instructions of the repre
sentatives of the German General Staff
in Fetrograd" and "with the consent of
the Council of People's Commissars,"
of which Trotzky and Lenine were the
heads, two incriminating German cir
culars had also been "taken from the
Department- of Secret Service of the
Fetrograd district" and given to the
Secret Service Department of the Ger
man General Staff in Fetrograd. - On
the bottom of the protocol the German
adjutant acknowledges receipt of the
two incriminating circulars w-tth his
cipher signature. And to complete the
evidence the circulars are themselves
penciled with-the -cipher signature of
the head of the German Secret Service
Bureau. .
Early War Plana Known. .
These two circulars apparently had
been obtained by some Russian agent
in Germany and transmitted to Russia.
The German general staff evidently
wished to get them back in order to
destroy them. By the order of the Ger
man general staff .and with the "con-i
ent" of Lenin a and Trotzky - they
rendered to the German secret service
in- Fetrograd on order of "the repre
sentatives of the German general staft
in Petrograd."
And they surrendered them In con
formity with a working agreement be
tween the Bolshevik leaders and the
German general staff, of which agree-
ment a photograph is included in the
series as document No. 5.
It Is dated October, 1917. It is from
a division of the German general staff.
It is addressed to the Council of the
People's Commissars, of which Lenine
and Trotzky were the heads. It be
gins:
"In accordance with the agreement
which took place in Kronstadt, in July
of the present year, between officials
of our general staff and leaders of the
Russian revolutionary army and de
mocracy, Messrs. Lenine and Trotzky,
Rasalinosk and Dybenko, the Russian
division of our general staff operating
in Finland is ordering to Petrograd
officers for the disposal of the Infor
mation department of the staff."
"Mutual Activities" Agreed I'pon.
Among the officers named are Major
Luberts. whose cipher signature is
given as It appears on the two sur
rendered German circulars mentioned
above (document No. 3), and Lieutenant
Hart wig. whose cipher signature is
given as It .appears on the receipt, for
the two circulars. And an Indorsement
on this letter from the German general
staff records that the German officers
assigned to Petrograd had appeared
"before the military revolutionary com
mittee" and had "agreed on conditions
with regard to their mutual activities."
What their "mutual activities" .were
to be is sufficiently' indicated by docu
ment No. 7, 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 12, 1918, that "by
order of the German general staff" the
German intelligence section "has In
formed us of the names and the char
acteristics o the main candidates for
re-election" to the Russian Bolshevik
central executive committee" and the
general staff orders us to Insist on
the election of the following people.1
They add a list of Russian leaders sat
isfactory to the German general staff.
The list Is headed by. Trotzky and Le
nine. They were elected, and the rest
of the present Bolshevik . executive
committee were chosen from -the same
German list
Payment Made la Cold.
Document No. 28 gives evidence of
the quid pro quo. It is .a photograph
of a letter from the president of the
German Imperial Bank -to the Bolshe
vik Commissar of Foreign Affairs. It
is marked "very secret" and dated Jan
uary 8. 1918. It Bays: "Information
has today been received by me from
Stockholm that 50.000.000 rubles of
gold have been transferred to be put at
the disposal of the People's Commis
sars, which Is the title of the Bolshevik
leaders. "This credit," the letter con
tinues, "has been supplied to the Rus
sian government in order to cover the
cost of the keep of the Red Guards
the Bolshevik revolutionary troops)
and agitators in the. country. The im
perial government considers it appro
priate to remind the Soviet of People's
Commissars of the necessity of increas
ing propaganda in the country, as the
antagonistic attitude of -the south of
Russia and Siberia to the existing Rus
sian government is troubling the Ger
man government."
Four days later the same president of
the German Imperial Bank sent another
000,000 rubles to the same address to
provide for the sending of a Russian
revolutionary leader to Vladivostok to
get possession of . the -"Japanese and
American materials" at that port, and
If necessary to destroy them. A pho
tograph of his letter is given as docu
ment No. 9. - , -
- Loot of Empire Lies Open.
There were earlier payments, but
probably none later , than these. None
was necessary.- By this time the loot
of an empire lay open to the Bolshe
viks and the Germans.
Most significant of all are two pho
tographs ;of further ' communications
from tne German imperial Bank,
given as documents Nos. 10 and 11.
One is a letter addressed to the chair
man of the Council of People's Commis
sars, and the other is the "resolution -of
conference of representatives of the
German commercial banks," received by
the chairman of the Bolshevik central
executive committee ' and Indorsed by
him in pen and Ink. Together they
give a complete synopsis of the terms
on which Germany intends to have con
trol of all Russian Industries. For five
years from the signing-of peace, Enc
llsb, French and American capital in
Russia are to be ."banished and "not
to be allowed in the following Indus
tries: Coal, metallurgical, machine
building; oil, chemical and pharmaceu
tical." These industries are to be de
veloped under the control of a "su
preme advisory organ consisting of ten
Russian specialists, ten from German
Industrial organizations and the Ger
man and Austrian banks." Germany
and Austria are to "enjoy the unlimited
privilege of sending mechanics and
qualified workmen Into Russia." "All
other foreign mechanics and workmen
are not to be allowed to enter at all"
for five years after the conclusion of
peace between Russia and Germany.
Private banks in Russia arise - only
with the consent "of the. union of the
German and Austrian banks," etc.
Conspiracy la Indorsed.
And this conspiracy between German
Imperial capitalism and the pretended
Russian Reds is indorsed by a Bolshe
vik leader, with the recommendation
that it should "be taken under advise
ment" and "the ground prepared in the
soviet of the workmen's and soldiers'
deputies in case the Council of People's
Commissars will not accede to these re
quests." .
various details or tne conspiracy, De
tween the Bolshevik leaders and the
German general staff are '.exposed in
documents 16 to 29. These 'are photo
graphs of letters which passed between'
the Bolshevik leaders and the German
general staff, or the German officers in
Russia. Document No. 21 shows that
on November 1, 1917, when Russia was
still regarded as an ally of Great Brit
ain, France and America, the German
general staff was having "the honor to
request" the Bolshevik-leaders- to- in-,
form it "at the earliest possible .mo
ment" concerning "the quantity "and
been -received from America, England
and France and also the units which are
keeping guard over the stores.'
' Document 18 shows the German gen
eral staff requiring the Bolshevik lead
ers to send "agitators to the camps of
the Russian prisoners of war in Ger
many," in order that they might pro
cure spies to work among the English
and French troops and to further "peace
propaganda. - And this is proposed by
the German general staff as being "ac
cording to the negotiations between the
Russian and German peace delegations
at Brest-Litovsk."
In document 22 the Bolshevik leaders
and the Germans are arranging to send
"agents, agitators and agent destruc
tors" out of Vladivostok to ports of the
United States, Japan and British colo
nies in Eastern Asia."
Fraudulent Passports Provided.
In document 16 Trotzky is providing
fraudulent passports for German offi
cers who are going to England, France
and America, as spies and enemy
agents. And document 17 shows Trotzky
indorsing a similar proposal to be
urgently executed. L. T." I
Three German submarines are to be
sent to the Pacific on the Trans-Siberian
railway by orders of the German
high command In document No. 23.
Lists of German and Russian spies
watching the British. French and
mitting them and the analysis to
Washington, I turned, therefore, to the
task of further investigations. -
' It is not yet possible to name those
who helped, but in two weeks' time the
judgment of facts became apparent.
The material is presented in Its re
port form, with the addition of some
later data For instance, I was not
able to learn until several weeks after
I left Russia that the German order
(which I possessed) naming the Rus
sian who was to "defend" Petrograd
had been obeyed.
The text of the documents discloses
both the methods and the effects of
the German conspiracy not alone
against Russia, but the world. With
each document is the indication of
whether it is an original or photo
graph. With each document is an in
terpretative note. . .
Document No. 1.
Very secret.
People's Commissary for foreign af
fairs.
Petrograd, Nov. 16, 1917.
To the Chairman of the Council of
People's Commissars:
In accordance with the resolution
passed by the conference of People's
Commissars. Comrades Lenine, Trotz
ky, Podvoisky, Dybenko and Volo
darsky, , the , following has been exe
cuted by us:
1. In the archives of the Ministry
marginal indorsements "referred to the
commission-for fighting counter revo
lution. Demanded documents M.
Skripnlk. and an- illegible comment by
N. Gorbunov. Lenine's other govern
ment secretary. The letter Is directed
to Lenine. Did Skripnik get the docu
ments? I do not know.
The letter is remarkable otherwise,
lor tne arrested captain Konshin men
the presence of the representative of
our staff and Mr. von Schoenemann.
For the head of the department.
. M. Waal.
Note The world penalty, therefore,
was apparent to some Germans. Of the
personalities named in the letter,
Scheidemann, the leader of the German
government supporting wins- of the.
Socialist party, is- the most notable.
tioned is a German officer. Lieutenant I Once before he has been nameH in f
Otto, who appears elsewhere as an lation to the "business relations" of the
agent In the German double-crossing Russian Bolsheviki with the Imperial
Intrigue in the Ukraine. What was be- government, writing a letter from Ber-
""" mymcry gi mi arrest: v nat nn August 25. 1917. to a "Mr. Olberg"
Document No, 3.
nalistfc venture, but .was supposed to
have split with him in Russia. The
evidence that he is still agreeable to
Germany is pertinent.- Madame- -Kollontai.
the only woman on this list,
was the Commissar of Public Welfare.
She was sent abroad for foreign propa
ganda in February, but did not get be
yond Scandinavia, and later returned
to Russia.. Kamenoff, who went out
of Russia with Ko 11 ant a I. also sought
to - return, but was arrested by tne
Finnish white guards (not the Ger
mans) on the Aland Islands, and his
release was the subject of negotiations.
(V. K. D. No. 323-8 inclosures).
ProtocoL
This protocol, written by us on the
which he stated that 150.000 kroner I He is Trotzky's brother-in-law. Sverd
had been placed at Olberg's disposal atl'ov was temporary chairman of the all-
Fuerstenberg's office through the jfia
Bank (document No. 18).
" ruerstenberg by this time, Jan
ment of secret service of the Petro
grad district and the former depart
ment of police (Okrana) on instruc
tions of the representative of the Ger
man general staff In Petrograd:
2. Circular No. 93,
28, 1914, of the general staff of the
high sea fleet, concerning the sending
SUMMARY OF DOCUMENTS NOW DT POSSESSION OF UNITED STATES PROVING GERMAN
, CONSPIRACY AGAINST WORLD DEMOCRACY.
Complete answer to the friends of the Bolshevik government in the United States Is furnished in the pub- ,
lication of documents obtained in Russia showing that Lenine and Trotzky are German agents and that the
Bolshevik revolution was planned by the German general staff and financed by German bankers.
Briefry summarized, the contents of the documents which furnish damning proofs of German conspiracy
against the nations of Europe and against the United States, set forth'these Indisputable facts:
The treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a betrayal of the Russian people by the German agents, Lenine and
Trotzky. ,
"Defense" of Petrograd against the Germans was by a German picked commander.
German officers have been the military advisers of the Bolshevik government, directors of its foreign
, and domestic policies and spies upon the embassies of the allied nations in Russia..
The Bolshevik government is not a Russian government, but Is acting solely In the Interests of Germany
and betraying the Russian people, as Its friends in this country would have had It betray the United States.
German Intrigue and German guilt are conclusively shown by original documents or photographs of orig
inals, some 70 in number, now in nossession of the United States Government, obtained from the secret archives
of the Bolshevik leaders. ... . ' j..h
Through a bank in Stockholm, the German Imperial Bank financed Lenine and Trotzky "lor the propa
ganda of peace in Russia." The price paid these modern Judases was 60,000.000 gold rubles.
German orders to destroy incriminating documents were carefully preserved. v
German circulars, duly authenticated, prove conclusively that on June 9, 1914, the German government
was preparing for war, weeks before the assassination of the Austrian Archduke, which was made the pre
text for war. " -
Noverober 28. 1914, the German general staff issued an order for he mobilization of "all destructive agents
and observers" in the United States and in Canada to prevent the sailing of ships from American ports to
Russia, France and England, and recommending the employment of "anarchists and escaped criminals."
Five million rubles were sent by Germany to pay expenses of a Russian revolutionary leader to go to Vladi
vostok to get possession of or to1 destroy "Japanese and American materials at that port."
Germany's commercial treaty obtains absolute control of Russian industries for five years, barring all
English, French and American capital.
Numerous documents expose details of the conspiracy between the Bolshevik leaders ' and the German
general staff.
Bolshevik and Germans plan to send, "agents, agitators and agent destructors" out of Vladivostok "to ports
Of the United States and Japan and British colonies in Eastern Asia."
Trotzky provides fraudulent passports for German officers to go to England, France and America as spies
and enemy agents.
Three German submarines were to be sent to the Pacific by the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Assassination of Russian Nationalist leaders was arranged by Germany, also the destruction of the Polish,
. legionaries, the disorganizing of the Roumanian army the deposing of the King of Roumania, the attack
upon the Italian Ambassador In Petrograd and the theft of his papers and the employment of German soldiers '
in Russian uniforms against the Russian National armies In the south.
; One group of letters shows how the Germans cheated their Bolshevik agents by making a separate peace
- in the Ukraine, and another tells of Germans assisting both sides of the civil war In Finland.
Ample evidence is furnished in these documents of the greatest conspiracy against democracy that the world
has ever known. - B . ..
2d of November, 1917, in duplicate, with uary in Petroerad at Smnin, i .vin.
the consent of the council of people's to help Scheidemann in covering up old
commissars is taken from the depart- trails. Radek is a clever Polish-Aus
trian Jew, who came from Switzerland
with Lenine. He and Trotsky between
them staged the public play acting at
Brest-Litovsk. Von Schoenemann was
the accredited German n.ntiti.
1. Circular of the German general to the Bolshevik Foreign Office. He
staff No. 421. dated June 9, 1914, con- lis named later in document k t-
cerning the immediate mobilization of vus is a handler of German propaganda
all Industrial enterprises in Germany, money, with headquarters at - Copen
and hagen, and Is credited with bein.th
dated November directing force behind Joffe.
iiave pnotograph of this letter.
Spies Are Provided.
Document No. 5.
(Gr. Great General Staff. Central AM.
heilung division section' M. October,
iiy, Benin).
Secret department No. 31
To the Council of People's Commis
sars:
in accoraance with the irrn.,nt
which took place in Kronstarit in .inh
of the present year between officials
of our General Staff and leader of th.
rcussian revolutionary army and democ
racy, Messrs Lenine, Trotzky, Raskol
nikov and l?ybenko. the Russian divi
sion of our general staff operating In
Finland is ordering to Petron-rnd offi
cers for the disposal of the information
department of the staff. At the head of
mo r-eirograa division will be the fol
lowing officers, who use the Russian
language perfectly and who ar ac
quainted with Russian conditions:
Major Lubers, cipher signature Ag-asfer.'
Major von Boelke. clnher altrnat,,
Schott.
Major Bayermeister cinher signa
ture Ber. Lieutenant Hartwii? i-inh..
signature Henrich.
The espionage department In accord
ance with the agreement with Messrs.
ixnme, xroizKy and Zenoleff will have
the surveillance of the foreign m
bassies and military missions and on
the counter revolutionary movement
and also will perform the esnlonaa
and counter-espionage work on the in
ternal ironts, lor which purpose agents
will be assigned to the esDlonara i-itie.
Coincidently it is announced that at
the disposal of the Government of peo
ple's commissaires are assigned con
sultants to the Ministry .of Foreign Af
fairs Mr. von Schoermann, and to the
Ministry . of Finance Mr. von . Toll,
chief of the Russian division German
general- staff; O. v Rausch. Adjutant U.
Wolff.
(And below on the same letter!; Tn
the Commissariat on Foreign ' Affairs.
Russian soviet- Lunacharskl is com
missar of education. ,
Steklov is editor of the official pa
per Isvestia. Voladarsky, who has
lived In the United States, was in close
confidence with Lenine. He was killed
In Moscow the last week in June.
Agasfer, who delivered the order in
behalf of Rausch, ' Is Major Luberts.
Have photograph of letter.
, LEIGH REILLT,
Director News Division Committee ori
Public Information.
JOHN COLLIER RESIGNS
CHIEF DEPCTY DISTRICT ATTOR
NET RETl'RXS TO PRACTICE
American embassies in Petrograd are
given in document No. 25. And finally,
in document No. 15 the Bolshevik lead
ers are warned that information con
cerning the connection of tne Lrerman
government with the Bolshevik work
ers" has leaked out and that Russian
troops are hearing of it.
Letters are given to show how the
Bolshevik leaders and the German offi
cers arranged for the assassination of
Russian Nationalist leaders (documents
35, 39 and 52), for the destruction of
the Polish legionaries in the Russian
army (documents 40 to 42), for the dis
organization of the Rumanian army
and the deposing of the Rumanian King
(document No. 37), for the substitution
of officers satisfactory to Germany to
command of Russian troops Instead of
patriotic Russian Generals (documents
31 and 32), for the suppression of pa
triotic agitation among the Russian sol
niers (documents 13 and 14), for an at
tack upon the Italian Ambassador In
Petrograd and the theft of his papers
(documents 26 and 27), and for the em
ployment of German soldiers In Rus
sian uniforms against the Russian Na
tional armies in the south (document
35).
Letters Indorsed by Trotzky.
Several of the letters are indorsed by
Trotzky. Even standing alone, they
are complete proof that the Bolshevik
leaders were ruling as German agents
In Russia ana obeying German orders
to act against all Germany s enemies,
and even against Russia Itself.
Moreover, these Bolshevik leaders
acted as German agents by suppressing
their own socialist revolution in th
Russian provinces where their doc
trines interfered with German plans of
annexation. Document 46 is the orig
lnal letter from the Petrograd depart
ment of the German general staff, ad
dressed to the Bolshevik Commissar of
Foreign Affairs. It reads: "According
to instructions of the representative of
our general staff, I have the honor once
more to insist that you recall from Est-
land. Litva and Courland all agitators
of the central executive committee of
the soviet of workmen and soldiers'
deputies."
And in document 47 the general staff
orders the Bolsheviki to cease the agi
tation in Estland, which had "finally
led to the German landlords being de
clared outlawed" and to "take imme
diate steps for the restoring of the
rights of the above-mentioned German
landlords.
Another group of letters (Nbs. 33 to
36), shows . how the Germans cheated
the Bolshevik leaders- in their dealings
with the Ukraine and made a separate
German peace -with the anti-Bolshevik
leaders in that Russian province. And
another group shows-the Germans as
sisting both sides of the civil war in
Finland .(Documents 38, 43 and 53).
.- The documents, as they follow, are
given in the report form, in which they
were transmitted by Mr. Sisson to Mr.
Creel, chairman of the committee.
with some, later data added and care
fully indicated. For instance, Mr.
Sisson did . not learn until several
weeks after he had left Russia that
the German order (which he possessed)
naming the! Russian who was to "de
fend'' . Petrograd had been obeyed.
REPORT BY EDGAR SISSON.
INSTALLMENT 1.
Introduction and ;documents 1 to 7.
Three groups of documents are sub
jected to internal analysis in the ma
terial that follows.
One group consists of originals, one
group consists of photographs of doc
uments believed still to be in the file
rooms of the Russian Bolsheviki and
the third (the appendix to the first in
stallment) consists of -typewritten cir
culars that have not been traced to
their originals except in the case of
two of the number. The chief impor
tance of the third group is that its
appearance inspired the efforts that
led to the nncovering of the other
groups. -And they fit into the fabric
of the whole. - .
The first set of these appendix cir
culars came into my hands on Febru
ary 2, in Petrograd. An additional set
appeared' the following day at an of
fice where I frequently called. A third
appeared in' another quarter a day af
terwards. One set was in Russian and
two In English.- On February 6 I held
all three' sets. A possible explanation
for their appearance at this time and
the'ir intent is given in-theappendlx.
By themselves they were plausible,
but not substantiated. --Raving first
performed-the obvious duty of analyz
ing" them for surface values and trana-
of Justice from the Dossierre "trason"
of Comrades Lenine. Zinovieff, Kos-
lovsky. Kollontai and others has been
removed the - order of the German
Imperial Bank No. 7433, of the 2d of
March 1917, for allowing money to
Comrades Lenine, Zinovieff, Kameneff,
Trotzky, Sumenson, Koslovsky and
others for the propaganda of peace in
Russia. . .
2. There have been audited all the
books of the Nia Bank at Stockholm
containing the accounts of Comrades'
Lenine, Trotzky, Zinovieff and others,
which were opened by the order of
the German Imperial Bank No. 2754.
These books have been delivered to
Comrade Muller, who was sent from
Berlin.
Authorized. by the Commisar for For
eign Affairs. ' 'F. ZALKIND.
E. POLIVANOFF. .
Llnlc Connects Lenine.
Note The Russian Council of Peo
ple's Commissars was dominated by the
president, Vladimir Ulianov (Lenine);
the then Foreign Minister, Leon
Trotzky, now War Minister, and the
Ambassador to Germany, A. Joffe. The
marginal indorsement in writing i
"To the Secret Department, B. Xi:
This is the fashion in which Lenine
is accustomed to initial himself. The
English equivalent would be V. U., for
Vladimir Ulianov. So. even if there
existed no further record of German
Imperial Bank order No. 7433, here
would be the proof of its contents, and
here is the link connecting Lenine di
rectly with his action and his guilt.
The content matter of the circulan ex
ists, however, and herewith follows:
Order of the 2d of March. 191 of
the Imperial Bank for the representa
tives of all German banks in Sweden:
Notice is hereby given that- requisi
tion for money for the purpose of
peace propaganda In Russia will be re
ceived through Finland.
These requisitions will emanate from
the following:
Lenine, Zinovieff, Kameneff, Trotzky,
Sumenson, Kozlovsky, Kollontai. Sivers
and Merkalln, accounts for whom have
been opened in accordance with our
order No. 2754 in the agencies of pri
vate German businesses In Sweden,
Norway and Switzerland. All these re
quests should bear one of the two fol
lowing signatures: .Dishau or Milken
berg. With either of these signatures
the requests of the above mentioned
persons should be compiled with with
out delay.
German Efficiency Seen.
I have not a copy of this circular nor
a photograph of it, but document No. 2,
next In order, proves its authenticity at
once curiously and absolutely. Partic
ular interest attaches to this circular
because of Bolshevik public denial of
ts existence. It -was one of several
German circulars published in Paris in
the Petit Parisienne last Winter. The
Petrograd Bolshevik papers proclaimed
it a falsehood. Zalkmd, whose signa
ture appears not only Jiere but on the
protocol, was an assistant foreign min
ister. He was sent in February on a
mission outside of Russia. He was in
Christiania in April when I was there.
Have photograph of the letter.
Document No. 2.
No. 6451. secret.
(G. G. S. Nachrichten Bureau, sec
tion R.)
February 12.
The secret service department - has
the honor to Inform you that there
were found on the arrested Captain
Konshin two German documents with
notations and stamps of the Petersburg
secret police (Okran) which show
themselves to be the original orders of
the Imperial Bank. No. 7433, March 2,
917, concerning the opening of ac
counts for Messrs. Lenine; Sumenson,
Koslovsky,.. Trotzky and other active
workers on the peace propaganda, by
order No. 2754, of the Imperial Bank.
These discoveries show that at the
proper time steps were not taken to
destroy the above mentioned documents.
For the head of the department: "
K. Bauer, Adjutant Bukholm. "
, World "Will Thank Baner.
Note Observe .. the thoughtfulness
with which Bauer, a careful man, eet
down exactly what .was in the docu
ment, thereby permitting the contents
to rise again from the ashes to which
perhaps he committed the damaging
paper. .' He admits that the documents
found were truthful originals. The
world will thank him and Germany
will not. -I
have the original letter. It bears
into enemy countries of special agents
for the destruction of war supplies and
materials.
Sealed Letters Ordered Opened.
The above noted circulars were given
over under, signed receipt into the se
cret service department of the Ger
man staff in Petersburg.
Working Compact Explained.
The officers indicated in .thin nanr
have been before the military revolu
tionary committee and have agreed on
conditions with Muravieff. Boie and
Danishevoki with regard to their
mutual activities. They have all come
under the direction of the committen.
The consultants will appear as called
Authorized by the council' of people's j 'or. Chairman military .revolutionary
cummiiree, council or workmen and
aoiaiers. Deputy A. Joffe, Secretary P.
Krushavitch.
Note Here is the workins: compact
If Rausch was then in Berlin he pre
sumably came immediately afterwards
to Petrograd. It is more probable that
Aid Will Still Be Given Fire Prevention;
Bureaa In Prosecution of Arson
Cases in Pacific Coast States.
John A. Collier, Chief Deputy District
Attorney, has tendered his resignation
to .District Attorney Evans to take ef
fect October 1, and will re-enter private
practice with his brother, H. E. Collier;
in suite 1220-22, Spalding Building.
Mr. Collier has been with District
Attorney Evans from the day the lat
ter took office. Until October 1. 1914.
he was second assistant deputy, and
for the past four years has been chief
deputy.
Although he enters private practice-
Mr. Collier wyi continue to take part In
prosecutions of arson cases, and it is
understood that he will become special
prosecutor for the arson branch of ths
Pacific Coast Fire Prevention Bureau
for ' Oregon, California, Washington,
Idaho and Montana. He will also ap
pear as special prosecutor for the State
Fire Marshal.
"I deeply regret Mr. Collier's leav.
ing the service," said District Attorney
Evans. "He has been a loyal and able
prosecutor and the office will sorely
miss nim.
Although no official announcement
nas been forthcoming, it is understood
that Deputy District Attorney Ham
mersley will be elevated to the post
of chief deputy. Mr. Evans is expected
to announce the appointment early this
week. - . .
SOLDIERS' HUT IS RUSHED
commissars.
F. Zalkind, E. Polivanoff.
(Illegible, but may be Mekhanoshin)
A. Joffe.
" .The circulars No. 421 and No. 91 men
tioned in this protocol and also . one
copy of this protocol were received on
tlfe 3d of November, 1917, by. the secret 'he,!ett6T WaS written ln Finland than
service department of the German gen
eral staff in Petrograd. i -Henrich,
Adjutant.
Note The circulars Inclosed are In
German and are as follows:
(1 Gr. General Staff, Central Abthei-
lung. Section M. No. (blank) Berlin).
Circular of June 9, 1914.
To Bezirkscommendanten:
Denin. in some otner letterheads on
wnich Berlin is printed the -word- is
run through with a pen.- Stationery
was nara to get ln Petrograd. Malor
iuoerts became the head of the infor
mation or intelligence bureau (Nach-
ricnten bureau). Kronstadt was the
mid-Summer headquarters of Lenine.
Raskolnikoff has been referred to
Within 24 hours of the receipt of I ln connection with the project to sell
this circular you are to inform all in-1 'he Russian fleet to Germany. Dybenko
dustrial concerns by wire that the doc- the coftimissair of the fleet, the
uments with industrial mobilization naval minister driving man and keen
plans and with registration forms be witted. Zinovieff is the president of
opened, such as are referred to ln the the Petrograd soviet, during the Winter
circular of the commission of Count the most powerful of the local bodies
of the Russian Soviets. He is Jewish
and well educated. Joffe, in the let
ter of Bolshevik acceptance of the Ger
man compact, again stands forth for
what he is. the spokesman, after
(2 General Staff on the high sea Lenine, in all matters of supreme lm-
von Waldersee and Caprlvi of June 27,
1887.
No. 421, mobilization section.
Explosions on Ships Ordered.
fleet. No. 93.)
Circular of November 28, 1914.
To Marineagenturen and Flottenve-
reinen:
You are ordered to mobilize immedi
ately all destruction agents and ob
servers in those commercial and mili
tary ports in Canada and America
where munitions are being loaded on
ships going to Russia, France and
portance to Germany.
Have photograph of the Joint letter.
Military Advisers Selected. .
Document No, 6. 'i
(Gr. General Staff, Central Division
No. 813, November 19.) -
To the Council of PeopJ's Commis
saries. This is to advise you that the
following persons have ' been ' put at
the disposal of the Russian govern
Knights of tolumbos Building at
Fort Stevens About Ready.
The Knights of Columous building at
Fort Stevens, on. which work was com
menced August 5, under the super
vision of General Secretary Thomas
Duncan Ferguson, is about completed
and .ready to welcome all soldiers at
Fort Stevens and adjacent spruce
camps. The main building is 105x60
feet, with an auditorium 70x40 feet,
having a seating capacity of 800. On
the right is a large reception-room,
elegantly furnished, for the use of the
soldiers to entertain their mothers,
wives, sisters or sweethearts.
On both sides of the main hall are
two galleries used as writing-rooms
and equipped with desks to accommo
date 60 at once. . They are so arranged
that the boys can write while the en
tertainment is. being held in the auditorium.-
. . ,
THINPE0PLE
NEED BITR0-PH0SPHATE
How It.. Increases Weight,
Strength and Nerve Force in
Two Weeks' Time in Many '
Instances. ,
England. Where there are storehouses I ment as military advisers; Major Erich,
of such munitions, and where fight- Major rtoue. major Bass, major zim
ing units are stationed, it is necessary I merman, Major Anders, Lieutenant
to hire throutrh third parties who stand Haase, Lieutenant Klein, Lieutenant
in . no relation to the official repre- I Breitz.
sentatives of Germany agents for ar- These officers will choose a cadre o:
ranging explosions on ships bound fori the most suitable officers from the list
enemy countries, and for arranging or our prisoners, wno win iiKewise oe
delays, embroilments and difficulties I at the disposal of the Russian govern-
durlng the loading, dispatching and un- ment, as was agreea at tne conterence
loading of ships. For this purpose we in Stockholm when Lenine, Zinovieff
are especially recommending to your I and others were traveling through to
attention loaderswgangs, among whom Russia. ieaa or tne Russian section,
there are many anarchists and escaped German general staff, C Rausch, Adju-
criminals. and that you get in touch tant U. Wolff.
with German and neutral shipping of- I Note Major Anders took the Rui
flees as a means of observing agents sian name of Rubakov and Major Erich
of enemy countries who are receiving the Russian name Egorov. Lenine and
and shipping the munitions. - Zinovieff passed through Germany and
Money required for the hiring and Stockholm together. Have photograph
bribing of persons necessary lor tne or letter,
designated Duraose will be placed at I Document No. 7.
your disposal at your request.
Nachrichten Bureau of tho General
Staff of the high sea fleet.
Koenig.
Note Brfth the circulars bear the
penciled notation that the German se
(G. G. S. Nachrichten bureau, section
K. Jan. 12, 13 IB.
Confidential.
To the Commissar of Foreign Af
fairs: By the order of the local de
partment of the German general staff,
cret service bureau at Petrograd has tne intelligence section has informed
received them, signed Agasfer. the ci- I us or tne names and tne characters
pher signature of Major Luberts, head tics of the main candidates for the re
of the bureau, as will be shown in doc- election of the central executive com-
ument No. 5. The German intent here mittee. The general staff orders us to
was to remove from the records of the Insist on the election of the follow
old Russian government the evidence, I ing people: Trotzky, Lenine, Zinovieff,
first- that Germany was beginning in Kameneff, Joffe, Sverdiv, Lunacharski,
June, 1914, its active preparations for Kollontai, Fabrizius, Martovr Steklov,
the war that surprised the world In ooiman, r runze, janaer, miik, t-reoD
AuetisL- 1914: and second, to remove rajenski, Sollers, Studer. Golberg,
the evidence of its responsibility for Avanesoc, Volodarskl. Raskolnikov,
incendiarism and explosions In the I Stuchka, Peters and Neubut. Please
United States, a country with which I inform the president of the council of
Germanv was then at peace. The re- to general starts wisn neao or de-
suit was to give new evidence of the I partment, Agasfer, Adjutant Henrich.
truth of the charges. Nte The -indorsements are "copy
Have original of protocol and have handed to chairman council workmen
the printed circulars.
Document No. 4.
Effort to Destroy ' Unavailing;.
and soldiers deputies. No. 956.'
Election Is Perfunctory.
"Deliver to Comrade Zinovieff and to
(G. G. S.. Nachrichten bureau, section arj Russian cafendar feli Tin
the early part of the week of the ail-
To the Commissar of Foreign Affairs: I Russian soviet convention in Petro-
The section has receivett exact in- e-rad the week after the forcible dis-
formation that the leaders of the So- j solution of the constituent assembly,
ciallst party now erullng in Russia, I The election came at the end of the
through Messrs. Fuerstenberg and Ra- week and was a perfunctory re-elec-dek,
are in correspondence with Messrs. tion of practically the whole former
Scheidemann and Parvus regarding the executive committee of commissares.
destruction of the traces of the busi- Lacking the exact list, I' nevertheless
ness relations of the party with the can state that the present executive
Imperial government. We also know I committee "was drafted from this group.
that this demand was caused by the de- The name there surprising to me Is that
mand of leading groups of German. So- of Martov, the leader of the Memshi-
cialists, who saw in the said communi- viks, though it is my recollection that
cations a danger to the cause of world this party of opposition waB allowed
Socialism. By order of the staff, I have representation.'
the honor to request the submitting of Martov is an able writer, was asso-
thls question. to special discussion in elated with Trotzky in his Paris Jour-
Take plain bitro-Dhosnhate" 1 tha
advice of physicians to thin, delicate,
nervous people who lack vim, energy
and nerve force, and there seems tn ha
ample proof of the efficacy of this
preparation to warrant the recommen
dation. Moreover, if-we judge from tho
countless preparations and treatments
which are continually being advertised
for the purpose of making thin people
fleshy, developing arms, neck and bust,
and replacing ugly hollows and angles
by the soft curved lines of health and
beauty, there are evidently thousands
of men and women who keenly , feel
their excessive thinness.
Thinness and weakness are usually
due to starved nerves. Our bodies need
r
i
' k U '
Aitxs Josethn Davis, reforttne her
own experience wih BITRO' PriOs
rtiAltL, saysi Ut ts remarkable what
it did for me. After a. few days I
began, to retain my strength, felt full1.
of life, was able to sleep soundly and':
an my tune trouoies seemea to ats
appear. I gained twelve Pounds in
more phosphate than Is contained ln
modern foods. Physicians claim there
is. nothing. .that will supply this defi
ciency so well as the organic " phos
phate known among druggists as bi-
tro-phosphate, which is inexpensive and
is sold by most all druggists, under a
guarantee of satisfaction or money
back. By feeding the nerves directly
and by supplying the body cells with
the necessary phosphoric food elements,
bitro-phosphate quickly produces a
welcome transformation in the appear
ance; the Increase in weight frequently
being astonishing.
This increase in weight also car rle
with it a general improvement In the
health. Nervousness, sleeplessness and
lack of energy, which nearly always
accompany excessive thinness, soon
disappear, dull eyes become bright and
pale cheeks glow with the bloom of
perfect health.
CAUTION AHhourb Bltro-riiosnh.fe i.
unsurpassed for relieving ncrvousueb, uleep
leabiiess and ceneral weakness, onintr to its
ranrkaMo f Iniii growing properfies it thould
not oe cea oy anyone wno aues not aeurt
to pat en Uesiu ... -