BETRAYAL OF RUSSIA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14712, 18 September 1918, Page 3

BETRAYAL OF RUSSIA.

HYPNOTISED BY THE HUNS

LEJNIN AND TROTSKY SHOWN TO

BE GERMAN AGENTS

TREACHERY IN RUMANIA AND

FINLAND

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) WASHINGTON. Sept, 16, A series of communications between the German Imperial Government, and the Russian Bolshevik Government leaders has been released by the Committee of Public Information. Elaborate disclosures have already been made c.n this subject. They show clearly that the treaty of Brest Litovsk was a betrayal of* 'the Russian people by Lenin and Trotsky acting as German agents ; that the present Bolshevik Government is not a Russian Government, but a German Government' acting solely m tno interests of German y : that the Bolshevik' leaders for Germany's ends betrayed the working classes whom they pretended to represent ; that two months before the war began Germany mob'lised, her 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 Bolsheviki were made to ship, not only German spies to Allied countries with falsr. Russian passports, but that Russians acted as spies for the Kaiser. The documents are 70 m number, and many of them are originals, annotated by Bolshevik officer.*. .The balance are photos of the originals ; all fit perfectly into the pattern of German intrigue and guilt of the agreement between the Bolshevik leaders and the German General Staff dated October. 1917. The disI closures show tfchat German officers assigned to Petrogvad appeared before the military revolutionary committee and agreed to conditions regarding mutual activities.

What these mutual activities would be is disclosed m a letter sifrned m cypher by German officers, notifying th« Polshevik leaders on January 12, 1918. that the German General Staff insisted that the conditions for "re-election to the Bolshevik' Central Executive Committee bo chosen from a list. 'of Russian leaders satisfactory to the German General Staff. The list is headed by Trotsky and Lenin, who were elected, and the rest of th? present Bolsheviki executive committee., wag chosen from the same l'st. A letter marked "very secret" dated January 8, 1918, states : "Fifiy million roubles of gold will be* -placed at. the disposal of the Bolshevik leaders to cover, the cost of the imkeep of tVe Red Guards, the Bolshevik revolutionary troops and the agitators m the country." Four days later ;the President of the' Imperial Bank of Germany sent an additional four million roubles |to provide for sending Russian revolutionary leaders to Vkidivostock to get possession of Japanese' and American war material, and if necessary, to destroy thorn. Most significant are tho photographs of two communications from the German Imperial Bank. One is a letter to the chairman" of the Russian P-o---ple's Oommisßumaries t the other i? a resolut'on of the conference of German commercial banks received by the chnirmnn nf tho Bolshevik Central Executive Committee and endoi'.sed by him, giving the synopsis of the terms on wh'ch Germany intends to control all Russian industries for five years from the signing of peace. All "EoiErlish, French, and American capital is to be banished from Russia: Germany and Austria to enjoy unlimited privileges, sending mechanics and qualified -workmen to Russia, and all other foreign workmen to be barred.

Further details 'of the conspiracy show that three German submarines were to bo sent to the Pacific by the transSiberian railway. The letters show how the Bolshevik leaders and the 'Germans arranged the assassination of the Russian national loaders ; for the destmction of the Polish legionaries and thcRussian army ; for tbo disorganisation of the Rumanian army n,nd disposing of tlio Rumnnian King;' fo*i* substituting officers satisfactory to Germany to command the Russian troops instead of patriotic Russian generals: for the suppression of patriotic agitation among the Russian soldiars; for an attack upon the Italian Ambassador at Petrogr-id-; employment of German troops m Russian uniforms against the Russian national armies.

The Bolshevik leaders further acted as German asrwnts by suppressing their own Socialistic revolution m the Russian provinces where their doctrinos interfered with the German plans of annexation.

Another group of Jotters shows that the Bolshevik cheated the Bolsheviki leaders m dealing with U^rnine. made a separate German pe<ace ; with the antiBolsheviki leaders m that province, mid still another crroup shrors that th"! Germans were assisting both sides m the civil war m Finland.