GERMAN GOLD FOR LENIN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 187, 27 April 1918, Page 2

GERMAN GOLD FOR LENIN

THE SINEWS GF REVOLUTION SOME REMARKABLE CORRESPONDENCE London, February 11. Documentary evidence of the extent to which Lenin, Trotsky, and other Bolshevist stalwarts have been and are in German pay was recently furnished by the "Petit Parisicu'' in a series of communications reproduced below. These documents show ihat, as earlv as .March 2, 11)17, a week before the outbreak of the .Russian devolution, Die German Imperial Bank notified its agents in Switzerland to hunour all demands by Lenin, Trotsky, anil their, associates for money for propaganda, purposes in b'ussia. The most remarkable feature of this evidence (says the London "Times") is that it exhibits Lenin, the anti-capitalist, as the paid agent of 1 ho armament kings and profiteers of IJhenish Westphalia. An Account for "Comrade Trotsky." Tho first cf these documents, which is dalcd June 15/ 1917, from Geneva, is as follows :— To M. Furstenberg, at Stockholm. Sir,—l request you to take uoto that on demand of M. Kutz a sum of 82,1100 francs 1,43230) on (he Syndicate's account lias been handed over lor tlio publication of Maximalist Socialist pamphlets. Please acknowledge by telegram to name ot Decker tho arrival ot the pamphlets, together with number and date of receipt. (Signed) Krich, Deutsche Bank. The second document refers to Gorky, and is signed by Heir Sclieidemauu, tno Kaiser's Socialist. Berlin, Aug. 25, 1917.. ToM. Olberg. / . The desire expressed by you, based on your correspondence with Maxim Gorky, responds entirely to the party's intentions. In agreement with tho persons you know, wc place at your disposal, through tlio Nia Baiikcn MM. Furstenberg, the sum of 150,000 marks [nominally 4175110]. Kindly let "Vorwans" know everything written by .Maxim Gorky's journal in the sense of tho movement. Fraternal greeting. (Signed) SCHEIDEMANN. But Katz, alias Kamkoff, and Gorky are, after all, lesser fry. The real interest and importance of these revelations begin with tho head of the Bolshevist Governments, Vladimir Ulianolf Lenin. Everyone reniembors how Lenin returned from Switzerland to Russia through Germany, in a train placed at his disposal by tho Kaiser; how Lenin's organ "Pravla" was showered upon tho soldiers at tho front and in the rear; and how suspicious deposits of money wero discovered in Russian .banks under the name of friends of Lenin. Irrefutable proof. that Lenin was Germany's pnid agent is furnished in the following letters:— I.—Copenhagen, June 18, 1917. To M. Buffer, at Helsingfors. . Sir,—l inform you hereby that on order of the Syndicate n sum of 315,000 marks [nominally -£15,750] has been paid by tlie Diskonto. Gesellschaft to tho account of M. Lenin at Kronstadt. Kindly acknowledge to MM. Hansen and Co., 98 Nilandswey,. Copenhagen. (Signed) STEPSON. 2.-Stockholm, Sept. 12, 1917. To M. Fersen, at Kronstadt (via Hclsingfors). Your instructions carried out. Passports and sum mentioned, 207,000 marks [nominally 410,350], to tho order of your M. Lenin indicated in your letter, have been handed to tho persons in question. The choice is approved by His Excellency the Minister Plenipotentiary. Herewith confirm arrival of persons in question, as well as delivery of their receipts. (Signed) SVENSON. 3.—Berlin, July 14, 1917. To M. Mor, at Stockholm. Through the medium of M. S. Roachverger wo.send to your.addjcss a sum of 180,000 marks (nominally 49000) for Lenin when ho goes to Finland. The balaneo. of the sum will remain at your disposal for the organisation of tho propaganda against England and France. We inform you that the letters of MM. Matignac and Stiekloff which you sent us have boon received by us, and that the matter will be, considered. (Signed) Parvus. The fourth letter brings in Trotsky. September 21. 1917. To M. Raphael Schauman, at Haparanda. Honoured Comrade,—The banking firm of MM. Warburg has opened, on receipt of a telegram from tho president of the Rhenish-Westphalian Syndicate, an account in favour of the enterprise of Comrade Trotsky, tho lawyer has purchased tho arms and organised their transport, together with that, of the money, to Lulea and Vardia. Inform the firm of Essen and Son at Lulea as to tho consignees and the confidential persons to whom tho sum demanded liy Comrade Trotsky is to bo handed. Fraternal greeting. (Signed) Furstenberg. 5-Lulea, OctoJsjr 2, 1917. To M. Antonoff, at Haparanda. | Honoured Comrade,—lnstructions of Comrade Trotsky carried out. ■ A sum of '100,000 crows (422,222) has boon transferred from the accounts of tho Syndicate and the Ministry, and has been handed to Comrade Sonin. Slio will call on you and hand you with this letter the sum mentioned above. Fraternal greetings. f! (Signed) Furstenberg. The sixth and last letter is of capital importance. 6-Order of March 2, 1917. The Imperial Bank tu all .'representatives of German bunks in Switzerland. By the present wo inform you that demands for money for pacifist propaganda in Russia are about to be xnado from that country via Finland. Theso demands will be made by the following persons:—Lenin, Zinovicff, Kamcneff, Trotsky, Sumenson, Kosiovsky, Kolontai, Sivers, Mercaiu, whoso accounts have been opened by our Order No. 2754 in the agencies of the private German banking establishments in Sweden, Norway, and Switzerland. All theso demands must bo confirmed by one of two signatures: Dirschau or Wolkenburg.. At sight of these authorised signatures the demands of tho . above-mentioned propagandists in Uns- • sia will bo considered us regular and imI mediately executed. No. 7433, Imperial Bank. Some of Those Mentioned, Zinoviclf (alias Apfelbuiim), one of (he original members of Bolshe\ isin, was one of Lenin's most trusty lieutenants last November, but seems recently to have quarrelled with his redoubtable chief. Kanienoll' (alias Rosenfeid) is also an original member of the old "Red Guard." Ho has been, next to Trotsky, ono of Iho most prominent among the Petrograd delegates at. litest. He is now on his way to Loudon and Paris as representative oxtraonliifary of tho People's Commissioners to inform the Allied Governments and peoples of the progress of the negotiations. Kosiovsky, another prominent Leninite and Gorman agent, to whose account a. sum of 4200,000 of German money was said to be standing at one of tho Petrograd banks last July. Tho Kolontai, mentioned among those to whom the German Imperial Bank offers unlimited credit may well bo tho woman of that name who now figures as People's Commissioner for Public Relief in Petrograd and who has been responsible for tho recent confiscation of tho famous Novsky Monastery. Sumenson, yet another of the German Imperial Bank's pensioners, is doubtless tho woman ol that name who was arrested by the Keronsky Government last July, and who had a sum of 4100,001) slauding to her credit at the Azov-Don Bank in Petrograd. Her expenditure in June amounted to 475,000. SlioklolV (alias Nahanikcs), a lesser Bolshevist agitator. lle.rr "Parvus" (alius Parvus-Help-hand), a curious prototype of liolo Pashat started life at Odessa as a German Jew; struggled on in Munich as a poor "Socialist" scribbler; ugitalcd from 11105 onwards in Petrograd as a pre-Bolshevisti drifted ;i lew years later to Constantinople, whence lie returned in 1915 a fulllledged millionaire, and settled down in Copenhagen, whero he routed a villa aud drovo in his own motor-oar. This agent, provocateur and go-between boasts ac- j

nulciiilanco. with the foremost political I personages in Germany. Tlio lltimbiirtf banking Ann of Warburg numbers among several brothers Dr. Fritz Warburg, financial attache to the Gorman Legation ;:t Stockholm, who lias long been notorious as supreme director of the German corruptionist fund in Russia. His meeting with Protopopolf in Stockholm in 1910 is u matter of history. After the overthrow of the old regime ho transferred his attention to (ho Anarchists, lie was until recently in Petrograd; indeed, he may still bo there. The "Petit Farisie'u" appends, the following nolo:— Olberg is tlio corresponrlent oC iho "Vorwaorts'' and of Gorky's journal, "Novaya Jizu," und up to a short time ago ho championed the Maximalist cause. Anlonofl', to whom the fiCth letter is addressed, is perhaps tho military commandant, of Petrograd. Tlio "Ministry" mentioned in tho same letter is probably tho Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin. Tho "Sonia" mentioned in tho sarno i letter has not been identified.