LENIN EXPOSED.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1918, Page 2

LENIN EXPOSED.

EMPLOYED BY GERMANY. The following letter (says the Xew Europe) amply justilies the suspicion with which the .Maximalist leader Lenin has long been regarded. It was addressed by General Uenikin to Kerenskv, and was published in the first number of th. ncv. Russian Weekly, "Bez Lisnili Slov" (Without Superfluous Words), edited by the Socialist leader (Gregory Alexinski). The name of the editor, [already well known in the West for his very important books on "Russia and Europe" and "Russis. and the War,'' lis in itself a guarantee of good faith. I "On May 8 this your the Germans conveyed to the rear of the. VI. Army Yerlinolciiko, ensign of the J6th Siberian Be[tgiinent. On being cro-"-«xamini>d by the stall' of the. VI. Army and hy the staff 'under me, he explained that lit hatYbecn ! imprisoned: in Germany since ■ 10M. He had there, owing to & mistake, received | a large amount of Ukrainian literature |and coi're-spondener l addressed not to him, Dmitri 1 ewiipleiiko,'but to Stephen, 'iViio | was evidently a popular Ukrainian pl.liticiui, as the letters came from Lsriihc". Vienna, and other place?. "Probably on of this oonv.-

pomlence tins Germans concluded fhs.r in Yoi iiioienko they had an influential representative of a whole political party. !'0! i-ins rtv.'-oii thoy decided to I'iake use o! nim for their own ends. They proposed U: Yei'inoleiiico to send him to « a fjicugla n.i hs-? aped from prisof.. K Jt'.isi-i:'. hi- was. to H'Ce hirnse! f from. a ii'tnvy service, and, without count)'!," tin or.si, i.'v, w is to conduct an aftitutioV <)jr means possible in ordfi 1u .-/I'v.ii'i t''". Jollowiaj; . &nds; ~ i! i i'in- i(-/uo ,: ai o.i the I'iovisional Go-vri'uiiii.-nl -.iiit'. ihOcciaiiy the retirement ot Muj'iko;' '.n.d Outiiov. ('-I 'liit .'ftpv'-vatior. Ukraine from Russia til ««.. independent ; itfete. (3i Thfc jmniec.ii.tc conemsien ci peace beuvfe-r. 'jiiimj.iry lull JiussU. ''Alrei 'Ol% jonveisauc/.s with the Germans, am' cm tiit advice ot his comrudes. who Y,e;v al=o i'.upiisoned officers, Yevmuienkt, aj-.reed to the propcMil, and retti«eo. lotC roubles foi iiih initial expenses, witn the agreement tiifit In.- \ws, tc rcadvfe 8000 roubles monthly. T-lt wi s then conveyed secretly to il\e i-e&i tlic Hußsiau army. "According tc the instructions of the German officer- Yeriuoletikc. was to report tc' Mid receive moitty from a IHcnvnifcn if: Russia, Si-~oro;>is-YoUuhovsk! who h:U bOL'.ii entrusted with the same by the German*, mm who r«emvcu I money from Gerniiuiy through Stockholm from a csrUin Svendson, who was in the German Kmbnssy tlier»."The sftmo flertr.nii officers explained to liinj that after the Berlin meeting of S«m«!lst*, at which Lenin and SkoropisYttltuhovsW were present, L?iun was entrusted with _«!-«. task, hy. t.hei Ger.msiiw. Lenin received, money .from, people in StueUhfihn who were in toucji with- Berlin. : Ij«n;n and Skoropia-YoU tuhovski wro to Iteeu in contact -with YerzaoV-iißn was to in touch YoHubovsU. Incase. •|*f. .trairliefv Y>raolMffco-would he con!<?mnett t« dpath.

I "fa isfl'lip.mg you of the above, I ssk i YRiI HiJ& to refuse to make Iniowii to j n .!i! What decision you faTr'fi. T also onp!i"o documents whirli liavo lipr-n received ; from Yfl'inolenk-o, who lias been det&in- : ed fw the preagafc in aiogilv,".