FURTHER REVELATIONS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14869, 18 September 1918, Page 5

FURTHER REVELATIONS.

THE GREAT BETRAYAL

BOLSHEVIKI GOVERNMENT NOMI-

NATED BY GERMANY.

PLOTS WITHOUT END

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Sept. 17, 9.40 p.m.) Washington," Sept. 16. Communications between the German Imperial GQvernmerifc and the Russian Bolsheviki Government leaders, released by the Committee of Public Information, elaborate the disclosures already made on this subject. They show clearly that:the treaty of Brest Litovsk was a, betrayal of the Russian people by Lenin and Trotzky, acting as German agents; that the pro-, sent Bolshoviki Government is not a

Russian Government, but a German Government acting solely in tho interoste of Germany; that, tho Bolsheviki leaders for Germany's ends betrayed the working classes whom they pretend to represent; that two months before the war began Germany mobilised her industries for' war; that before and after the war began they sent to the United States, Canada, England, France and Japan spies and agents1 instructed to destroy munition plants and ships, and embroil workmen at ports of embarkation; that since then the Bolsheviki have "made attempts to ship not only German spies to Allied countries with false Russian passports, but that Russians act as spies for tho ■Kaiser. '

The documents are seventy in number. \ Many of them are originals annotated by Bolshevik!\\-officials, and the balance are photographs /idf.voriginals. All "fit laerf ectly into tho pattern of Germain intrigue and^uilt. The agreement between the Bolsheviki leaders and the German General Staff is dated October, 1917..

The disclosures show that German officers assigned to Petrograd appeared before the military revolutionary committee and agreed upon conditions regarding mutual activities. What these mutual ■ activities were to be is disclosed in a letter signed in cypher by German officers notifying the Bolsheviki leaders on January 12th, 1918, that the German General Staff insisted that candidates for re-election to the Bolsheviki Central Executive Committee should be chosen, from a list of Russian leaders satisfactory to the German General Staff. The list is headed by Trotzky and Lonin, who were elected, and the rest of the present Bolsheviki Executive Committee were chosen from the same list, t A leter marked "Very secret," and dated January Bth, 1918, states that fifty million roubles in gold would be placed at the disposal of the Bolsheviki leaders to cover the cost of upkeep of the Eccl Guards, the Bolsheviki revolutionary troops, and agitator* in the country. Four days later.the- president of the Imperial German Bank sent an additional five million roubles to provide for sencline: a Russian- revolutionary leader to Vladivostok •' to get possession- of Japanese and American war materials, and, if necessary, destroy them.

Alos't significant are photographs of two communications from the German

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Imperial Bank. One is a letter to the chairman of the Council of tho Russian People's Commissaries, and tho other is a resolution of a conference of German commercial banks received by the chairman of the Bolsheviki central executive committee and endorsed by him, giving a synopsis of the terms on which Germany intended to control all Russian' industries for five years from the signing of peaco. All English, French, and American capital was to bo banished, from Russia, and Germany and Austria were to enjoy unlimited privileges, sending mechanics and qualified workmen to Russia. All other foreign workmen wer© to be barred. Further details of the conspiracy show that three German submarines were to bo sent to tho Pacific by tho Trans-Siberian Railway. Letters show how the Bolsheviki leaders and. the Germans arranged for the assassination of Russian national leaders, for the destruction of the Polish Legionaries in the Russian army, for the disorganisation of the Roumanian army, for deposing the, Roumanian. King, for substituting officers satisfactory to Germany to command the Russian troops instead of patriotic Russian generals, for the suppression of patriotic agitation among the Russian soldiers, for an attack u.pon the Italian Ambassador at Petrograd, and for the employment of German soldiers in Russian uniforms against the Russian national armies. The Bolsheviki leaders further acted as German agents by suppressing their own Socialists' revolution in the Russian provinces where their doctrines interfered with the German plans of annexation. Another group of letters show 'that the Germans cheated the Bolsheviki leaders in their dealings with the Ukraine, and made a separate German peace with tho anti-Bolsheviki leaders in that province. Still another group shows that Germans are assisting both sides in the civil war in Finland.