THE BITTER TRUTH

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 309, 18 September 1918, Page 5

THE BITTER TRUTH

BOLSHEVIK TREACHERY

TO RUSSIA

HOW LENIN AND TROTSKY SOLD THEIR COUNTRY

DAMNING EXPOSURE OF HUN CHICANERY

(Rec. September 17, 9.40 p.m.) Washington, September 16. A series of communications bctweon the German Imperial Government and the Russian Bolshevik Government leaders has been released by the Committee of Public Information. These elaborate the disclosures already made on this subject. They show clearly: That tho treaty of Brest Litoysk was a betrayal of the Russian people by Lenin and Trotsky, act- . ing as German agents. That the present Bolshevik Government is not a Russian Government, but a German Government, acting solely in the' interests of Germany. That the Bolshevik leaders, for German ends, betrayed the working classes whom they pretend to represent. That two months hefore the war began Germany mobilised its' industries for war. That before and after the war began ;bhey sent, to the United States, Canada, England, France, and Japan spies and agents, instructed to destroy munition plants . and ships, and embroil workmen at- ..; the ports of embarkation. That since then the Bolsheviki have been made to ship not only German spies to the Allied countries with false Russian passports, but that the Russians act as spies for the Kaiser. The documents are seventy in. number, many of them originals, annotated by Bolshevik officials. The balance are photographs of originals. All fit perfectly into the pattern of German intrigue and guilt. Tho agreement between the Bolshevik leaders and tho Gorman General Staff is dated October, 1917. Tho disclosures show that German officers assigned to Petrograd appeared before the Military Revolutionary Committee and agreed to conditions regarding mutual activities. What these mutual activities were to he is disclosed in a letter signed in cipher by German officers notifying the Bolshevik leaders on January 12, 1918, that the German General Staff insisted that the candidates for re-election to the Bolshevik Central Executive Committee should bo chosen from a list t-f Russian leaders satisfactory to the German General Staff. The list was headed by Trotskv and Lenin, who were elected, and the rest of the present jfolshevik Executive Committee was chosen from the same list. A letter marked "Very secret," and dated January 8, 1918, states that fifty million roubles in gold would be placed at the disposal of the Bolshevik leaders to cover the cost of tho upkeep of the Red Guards, Bolshevik revolutionary troops, and agitators in the country. Four dnys later the president of the Imperial German Bank sent an additional five million roubles to provide for the sonding of a Russian Revolutionary leader to Vladivostok to got possession of the Japanese and American war materials, and if necessary destroy them. Most significant are photographs of two communications from tho German Imperial Bank. Ono is a letter to the Chairman'of the Council of tho Russian Peoples' Commissionaries, and the other is a resolution of a conference of German commercial banks which was received by the Chairman of the Bolshevik Central Executive Committee and endorsed by him, giving a synopsis of the terms on which Germany intended to' control all Rußsian industries for live years from the signing of peace. All English, French, and American capital was to be banished from Russia, Germany and Austria to enjoy unlimited privileges, sending mechanics, and qualified workmen to Russia. All other foreign workmen were barred. Further details of the conspiracy show.that three German submarines wore to bo sent to the Pacifio by ths Trans-Siberian railway. Tho letters show how tho Bolshevik leaders and the Germans arranged for: The assassination of the Russian Nationalist leaders; The destruction of the ' Polish Logionaries in tho Russian Army; The disorganisation of the Rumanian Army and the deposing of the Rumanian King; The substituting of officers satisfactory to Germany to command the Russian troops instoad of patriotic Russian generals; -. The suppression of patriotic agitation among the Russian soldiers-;' The attack upon the Italian Ambassador at Petrograd; The employment of German soldiers in Russian uniforms against the Russian national armies. The Bolshevik leaders further acted as German agents by suppressing their own Socialists' revolution in the Russian provinces where their doctrines interfered with the common plans. The annexation of another croup of letters show.that the Germans cheated the Bolshevik leaders in their dealings with the Ukraine, and made a separate- German peace with the anti-Bol-shevik leaders in that provinoe. Still another group shows that the Germans assisted both sides in the civil war in Finland.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

MANIACAL FRENZY OF TERRORISM ! BOLSHEVIK POLICY OF ' ASSASSINATION Stockholm, September 16. The terrorism in. Russia has reached tho stage of absolute .frenzy. A correspondent of a Stockholm newspaper likens tho bloodthirsty Soviets' ruthlessness to rabies. A daily spectacle is numerous corpses floating- in the Neva or washed towards Kronstadt and swept ashore. 'Another ghastly sight was six priests roped together and flung into tho river. The tido beached the bodies later. Tumbrils aro beard rolling all night in the streets of Petrograd, laden with corpses from the prison courtyards. Priests and officers are tho chief victims. The others are principally the hated burgeois, who are shot on_ the least suspicion of anti-Bolshevik tendencies. Over a hundred engineers, foremen in the Putiloff works, wore murdered becauso they displeased the manager. Assassination became a regular policy when the executive appointed Lenin, Trotsky, and Sinovioff to protect the tottering Bolshevism. _ Tliev assisted Uritski (recently assassinated), Minister for the Interior, who was known by the soubriquet of "The Bolshevik Marat," and the Tesult was the proclamation demanding the shooting ot everyone convicted 'of anti-Bolshevist sentimonts. The Red, Guards rabble carried out tho orders with savage, alertness. A young student named Rannevoishez acted as Uritski's Charlotte Corday. Tho names of fifty-two victims were first published, but afterwards tho executions wore so numerous that no further lists were published. Murders and imprisoning of hostages greatly uwreaeed after Uritski's death.

Thus a situation of extreme tension and peril was created. A revolt may break out at any moment, which even tho members of the Soviet dread. The city is paraded by artillery in all directions, and machine-guns are posted at every corner. Highly-paid Red Guards and Chinese servo as bodyguards, and surround every commissioner's residence and office. —"The Times." "'"'.' ' Another document) is an order from tho German General Staff to tho High Sea Fleet- in November, 1914, ordering "the mobilisation of all destructive agents and' observers" in -the United States, and recommending the use of "anarchists and escaped criminals, to cause explosions, delays, embroilments, and strikes."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TO DEVELOP SIBERIA BIG RUSSO-JAPANESE- -CORPORA™N.__r_ (Rec. September 18, 1.35' a.m.) Tokio, September 16. The organisation of the Russo-Jap. Economic Corporation for tho commercial and industrial development of Siberia haß been practically completed. Tho capital is between 10 and 20 million roubles.—"Tho Times."