FINANCING OF GERMAN REVOLUTION
REMARKABLE ALLEGATIONS DENIAL BY INDEPENDENT SOCIALISTS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIOHi.)' (REOTBR'S TELBfIRAJI.) (Received December 24, lO^a.m.) BERLIN, 23rd December. The question whether the German revolution is financed from Russia is agitating political circles, which havo information that the Independent Socialists have received large sums from Russian sources. Some of the Socialist newspapers have printed what purports to be a wireless despatch from Adolf Joffe, formerly the Bolshevik representative in Berlin, to Richard Barth and Hugo Haase, to the effect that while Joffe had not paid German interests anything directly, they ■were well aware whence the money had come. Joffe declared that Oscar Cohen, German Under-Secretary for Justice, controlled tdn million roubles for the furtherance of the German revolution. Altogether twenty-four million marks had been placed at tho -disposal of the German revolutionists. Tho Independent Socialists deny Joffe's imputations.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 152, 24 December 1918, Page 7
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