RUSSIA

Grey River Argus, 18 September 1918, Page 3

RUSSIA

A CONSPIRACY REVEALED.

GERMANY AND BOLSHEVIK

LEADERS

A CATALOGUE OF INTRIGUES

AMERICA PUBLISHES SECRET

DOCUMENTS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.)

WASHINGTON, September 16. (Ree. September 17, D.40 p.m.) A series of communications between the German Imperial Government and the Russian Bolshevik Government, leaders have been revealed by the Committee of Public Information. Elaborate disclosures already made on this subject show clearly that the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a betrayal ot the Russian people by Lenin and TrotsKy, acting as German agents; that the present BolsTnvik Government is not a Russian Government but a German Government, acting solely in the interests of Germany; that the Bolshevik leaders, for Germany's ends, have betrayed the working classes whom they pretend to represent; that two months before the Avar began, Germany mobilised its industries for war; that, before and after the war began, they sent to the United States, Canada, England, France and Japan; spies and agents instructed to destroy munition plants and ships and embroil workmen .at ports of embarkation; that since then the Bolsheviks have been made to ship not only as German spies to allied countries, with false Russian passports, but that Russians act as spies for the Kaiser. The documents are seventy in number. Many of them are originals, annotated by Bolshevik officials. The balance are photos of originals. All fit perfectly into* the pattern of German intrigue and guilt. •__,_, The agreement between the Bolshevik leaders and German General Statt, dated October, 1917, discloses that German officeis, assigned to Petrograd appeared before the Military Revolutionary Committee, and agreed to -conditions regarding mutual activities What tliese mutual activities would be is disclosed in a letter signed, in cypher, by German officers, notifying the Uolshevik leaders, on the 12th January, 1918, that the candidates for reelection on the Bolshevik Central Exeutive Committee should be chosen from a list of Russian leaders satisfactory to the German General Staff. Thelist is headed by Trotsky and Lenin* who were elected, and the rest of the present Bolshevik Executive Committee were chosen from the same list - A letter marked "very secret," dated 1 ' Bth January, 1918, states that fifty million roubles in gold would be placed at the disposal of the Bolshevik leaders to coyer the cost of upkeep of the Red Guards, Bolshevik revolutionary troops and agitators in the country. Four days later the president of the Imperial German Bank sent an additional five million roubles to provide for sending a Russian revolutionary leader to Vladivostock to get possession ot the Japan-ese-American war materials, and, it necessary to destroy them. Most" signiiicent -are the photo o-raphs of two communications from The German Imperial bank. One is a letter to the Chairman of the Council of the Russian People's Commissaries. The other is a resolution of the conference of German Commercial Banks, received by the chairman of the Bolshevik Central Executive Committee, and on-lowed by bin., giving a synopsis of the terms oa -vhich Germany intends to control all Jhe Russian industries for five years from the signing of peace. All English, French, and American capital was to be banished from Russia. Germany and Austria were to enjoy unlimited privileges, such as sending and qualified workmen to Russia. All other foreign workmen' were to bo barred. Further details of the conspiracy show that three German submarines were to be sent to the Pacific by the trans-Siberian railway. The disclosures also show how the Bolshevik leaders and Germans arranged to assassinate the Russian national leaders, for thq destruction of Polish i--gionari.es in the Russian army, for deposing the -Roumanian King, for substituting officers satisfactory to Germany to the command of Russian troop 3, instead of patriotic Russian. Generals, for the suppression of patriotic agitaiion among Russian soldiers, for an attack upon the Italian - Ambassador at Petrograd, for the employment bf German soldiers in Bus- ~ sian uniforms against Rutsian Natiiniil Armies. The Bolshevik leaders further acted as German agents by suppressing their, own socialisms' revolution in the Russian provinces, where tlicir doctrines interfered with German plans of annexation. Another group of letters show that the German's cheated the Bolshevik leaders in their dealings with the Ukraine, and made a separate German peace with the anti-Bolshevik leaders in that province. Still another group shows; that the Germans' were assisting both sides in the civil war in Finland.