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80LHISEOSETS. ACTIVITIES AGAINST UNITED , STATES AND ALLIES. Tricks of Long Ago?German Gencr? . al~ StaffJttade Demands of People*? Commissaries in November, 1917. "Washington, Sept. IG.--Secret ac tivities against the United States and the allies of the German paid and controlled Russian Bolshevik govern^ ? ment are the subject of today's chap ter of confidential documents frehi Russia given to the public by the . American government. - One of the documents, a terse note from the German general staff to the council of people's commissaries.'" dis closes that.as long ago as November. ^1917, when the Russian regime still ^was regarded as an ally of the na tions at war with Germany, the Ger mans were brusquely requiring Le nine and Trotzky to furnish informa tion regarding the amounts and placc pf storage of supplies, received by .Russia from America, England ana France. Others tell of the launching :n Jan . uary and February this year of i Bolshevik peace and socialistic prop aganda against the United States, England and France, at the direction of the German intelligence service. This was at the very time that Schiedeman, the powerful German Socialist and world Socialism apos tle was in communication with hi; Russian brothers "regarding the de struction of the traces of the parly's business relations with the imperial . government." The intelligence ser vice required the Bolsheviki to send ..\tov the allied countries through" neu tral Europe ^'comrades" under as umed names and with false neutral .passports, to preach their doctrine oi disorganization and to,carry on '?'??? m paigns of "counter revolution, /'sabo tage, looting, etc. Plans of the Germans for sending - three submarines, disassembled b.\ rail overland to Vladivostok for serv ice on the Pacific are disclosed in a communication of the German ' high 'fleet general staff to the commissar ies. Another of the naval ccai'muni cations reveals a scheme conceived in January of employing Russia r. , ships on the Pacific under the Rus - sian fiag to carry agitators and *'agents-destructors" to the ' Unite 1 States, Japan and the British "colo hies in eastern Asia. ? Personal notes from the German intelligence service to the commrs eaires der.cribe the assault up?ii nr:>i * robbery of the Itaiian ambassador in the streets of- Petrograd in February last in a vain effort to get possession of important papers believed to have been in the possession of the ambassador. Other notes teil in de tail of the watch kept upon the American and other allied embassies Like the remainder of the docu ments those made public tgtlay'are accompanied by notes explaining _^?*?*hich__are_ _pj*iginals and which are photographic copies and by explana ' tory comments by Edgar Sisson, who obtained the correspondence in Rus sia for the committee on public in formation. The following documents. With Mr: Sisson's intrpretive notes, expose the German-Bolshevik piot against the allies. Document No. 1C. . (Counterespionage, Stavka.. Jan. 21, 1918, No. 215.) .To the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs: We hereby advise you of thn arrival in Mogilev of the following German officers, who are being order ed to England, France and America: Zanwald, von Weine. Pabst, Mayer, Gruenwaldt, and Baron Schilling. They have been granted passports, sent here by Commissar Trotzky,. Von Weine, with a Danish pass port in the name of Hansen, a mer chant of Copenhagen, is to. proceed i' England. ' Baron Schilling is ordered to th United States of America with a Norwegian passport in the name oi Dr. Joseph Brun. Gruenwaldt haa^instructions .to pro ceed to France with a Russian pass port in the name of Ivan Kalnin. --4- The remaining persons .are to mak< a. journey through Finland and Swe den, supplied with papers vfrom th* German staff, in order to follow ul' the counter-revolutionary work ot countries allied to us.?Chief of Counterespionage Feierabend. Note?A young German who sai ! he was a deserting officer and that his name was Mayer, sought'the ai? of the embassy, the military mission and myself in getting to America. H ? I was a good looking young Prussian had lived in New York, spoke 'English with very little accent, and claimed to have been converted to the presi dent's views on peace requisites. H" said he had walked across the line^ as a deserter because he could stan 1 no more of German war and that h wanted to go to the United State.; : i talk and write against Germany. I was not receptive. There is no re<-' ord at our military control office in Ohristiania of a passport to Dr. Jo seph Brun. Have photograph of letter. Document No. 17. (Commissar for combating the coun ter revolution and progroms. No. 32. January f>. 191$* Petrograd.) To the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs: The plenipotentiary commissar for combating the counter-re vo lu.;on and Comrade Antonoff r< quest the commissariat for foreig i affairs to issue passports for going t > Denmark to the following comrades who are going to the allied countri- ? 1") conduct peace propaganda: To England are going: Comrad Adolf Pavovich Ribb?. Ilia Juli? vie*: T*Y;t?ki. Vladislav Antonovich Dash kevich. To France: Rim ma Lvovna ?>r lovna. Vladimir Konstant movie-1 Sehneur. To.. America: Isai Borisovie*? Kahn. Mark Vlasievich Grit3?cer. .v:<> f?a Arturovna Mack. '?? (All the named comrades will yi<:\ [ Copenhagen the premises of :!i fcffvwhere, they will receive neutrvi asSBk/rts^~to$ the tn'n to the nam< l coutttjriesl'; -vAf the disposal of the ?sp?ched, ^11 be placed the nece-i s&ry means for Gombating in the press with the imperialists of England, France and The United States. Their confidential addresses will be trans mitted to you later on the arrival of the nai.. d comrades at the places of their destination. Authorized com mis-saries: A. Shilinski. F. Zubert. Note?Trotzky indorsed this note To be urgently executed. L. T." The plan of peace propaganda : fami aien in the allied countries is plainly outlined. These Bolshevik fCe-mian agents will preach interna I ti'?naJ 1 olshevism and will eharg-2 j the countries.at war with Germany with the very imperialistic offenses ? ? v.hi'h Germany is guilty. This Js<- -.i.:: the method used in Russin by the Bolshevik-German press in aUac.kir>g, the L'nked States. EnglanJ and France. In The formula of this propaganda imperialism relates net . only to territory but to business en terprise. The agents listed above likely sought entrance under differ ent names. They and the center:; from v. hich they work shot d be recognized, however, by their winds and their works. The commissars who sign are members of commis sion for combating the counter-rev olution. Rave photograph of letter. Document No. 18. (Gr. General Staff, Central Depart ment, Section M, No. 951. Decem ber 20, 1917.) (Secret Dept. Affair 21?a.) To the Commissariat of Foreign j Affairs: According to the negotiations be i tween the Russian and German peace I delegations at . Brest-Litovsk, the . Russian section of the German gen I eral staff have the honor to request . th?* hastening of the departure of agitators to the camps of Russian prisoners of war? in Germany for ! the recruiting of volunteers, who will be sent to the English and French troops for. The pmpose of . observation and peace propaganda. ?'? Simultaneously, the staff request; the following sailors to be sent to Germany: Shishko. Kirshu. Mat viev and Dratchuk. They will re ceive special instructions when trav eling ?through Rre^r-Litovsk.?Chie? . = oi. the Russian Section German Gen ) eral Stiff, O. Rausch; Adjutant U. j Wolfif, - Nj*J(?This request was referred to :ke comrnissiarlats on military and naval affairs A marginal ques tion asked E. P. f probably Poliva non'): is 'Dratchuk at Black Sea?" ?He was at Sevastopol and may not have been sent. The others went, visited the camps Icr war ^risdnerr in Germany, and then returned to Russia. Shisko in February ? was i commissar of the naval college ir Petrograd. Have photograph of letter. I Document No. Hi. ] (Counterespionage at .e Stavka, Jan. 16, 11)18.) j To ih-~> Council of people's Commis i hereby bring to the notice of ' the Council of People's Commissaries S that through our front, on the per sonal permission of the supreme : commander, have passed 100 Oer j man officers and 2T.0 noncommission M ed officers who proceeded to our in j-ternal fronts: part of the German ! officers have gone to the front of I the Don region, part to the front : against Du toff, and part to Eastern \ Siberia and the Trans-Baikal for the ! surveillance, and if it shall be possi j ble, to oppose the Japanese occupa i tionary detachment and the counter revolutionary Trans-Baikal Cossack -: officers.?Counterespionage Official. j P. Arkipoff. Note?An odd comment gives in ; terest to this letter. It is "An accus ;ation or a silly accusal for personal 'benefit," signed illegibly. Apparent ; ly the letter passed through th"? .'hands of some honest man not in .(the eonfidence of the ganc. , I Have photograph of letter. . j Document No. 20. i j (The Counter Espionage with the Stavka, Jan. 8. 1918. : To the Council of People's Com ? j missars: ?J The supreme commander Krilenko ! has received an offer from the su ? j preme commander of the German i army to send to the uisposal of the i German staff 10 reliable officers of i the revolutionary army. The said persons must arrive at ; Warsaw, j where they will receive their further i instruction*. The aim of the trip is i . [ to visit the camps of our prisoners I of war on the propaganda of peace I ideas. The staff points out The desirability of sending Dzeyaltovsky, ? Siemashko. Saharoff and V'olodarsky. [?for the Chief of the Counter Es ! pionage, S. Kalmanovich. i Note?Dzvnltovsky was an officer j of the Life Guards Grenadier Regi I ment, and an agitator who aroused j the soldiers at the time of The il! Ifated June advance. Volodarsky has I been referred to previously. He was ! assassinated a few weeks ago at i Moscow. Kalmanovich was a cam ! missar on the staff of Krilenko. the talking man who was assigned to disorganize The army. In actual army rank Krilenko was a sublieu tenant. Have photograph of letter. Document No. 21. (Gr. General Staff. Central Division.. No. lS9i Nov. 1. 1917.) To the Council of People's Com missa rs: In accordance with an inquiry from the German general headquar ters I have the honor to request you to inform me at th<- earliest possible moment th<- exact quantity of am munition at the following place?: Pe trograd. Archangel. Kazan, Tiflis. You must also s;at" the quantity and storage ;?'.!.??? <?;' t!i< supplies which have been received fron. America. Gfsgland and France, an 1 a'so the uniis which are keepin ? gas -! ? >?.?? : tie- military stores Head of Department, <> Itausch Adjt. i WohT. Note -This is a request made upon a Country which America. England and France still regarded at thai dat ? as in ally. Have photograph <>;' letter, I??k*?iiii'-iiI \<i. 22. (General Staff of the High Sea Fleet No. 79, Jan. 10. 191SJ si Very Secret. The Retrograd representative of the supreme sea command has re ceived by wireless from Kiel orders to propose to the council of people's commissars to place at the disposal of cur agents at Vladivostok-ButterihoL Staufacher and Franz Waiden, sev eral steamships. On these ships musV be loaded the goods indicated by our named agents ami also persons indi cated by them and be sent as direct ed to ports of the United States, Japan and British colonies in East ern Asia. In case of absence of free tonnage in Pacific ports it is neces sary to charter ships sailing under a foreign flag. The object of sending the ships is to carry to enemy coun tries agents, agitators, and agents-de Istructcn*. All'the expense*; and risk the Petrograd agency of the supreme naval command takes for account of the naval operations fund?Capt. .Lieut. Rudolph Miller. Note?The indorsement of Lenin's I Secretary, Skripmk. is "reported." The active Vladivostok agents have been referred to previously. The threat of the arrival of German : agents through Pacific ports is appar rent. Have photograph of letter. Document Xo. 2:>. ? (General Staff of the High Sea Fleet, No. 850, Jan. 14. 1918.) i ? Very Secret. j To the Council of People's Com missars: According To instructions of the German high sea command, trans ? milted today to me by radio A. 1 apply to the Russian government with a proposal to take measures,to deliver to the Pacific by railway three of our submarines, disassembled. On the conclusion of peace negotiations and the conclusion of peace between Russia and Germany this transport ing' must be. begun immediately, whereby on the conclusion of the war the transported vessels will re main at the disposal of the- Russian : government?Capt. Lieut. Rus Mil ' ler. i Note?The letter is indorsed "Jle i ported. Secretary Skriphik." The transporting, according to .the cate gorical demand, was to begin immedi ately after peace was signed. These are the only two communications or Capt. Miller that appear. Have photograph of letter. Document No. 24. (Commissar for Combatting the j Counter Revolution and Po | .groins, No. 44563, Jan. 2, 191S). j To the Commissar of War Cklian sky: Oui agency on the Fuhrstaskaya I informs us that two unknown peopb have Leen noiced to visit the Amer ; ican embassy three times. Maj". Luberts begs to point out to Commissar Podvoisky" the necessity of keeping a watch over the movement:, of these two persons. J await, youi I instructions.-?Commissar A. Koz j min. j Note -Maj. Lubert: believed in j identifying visitors to the American j.embassy. Podvoisky was the min 1 inter of war. ? ? . .. i Have, photograph of letter.' ! _'.___' ? \ .. s Document No. 25. j (G. G. S. Nachrichien Bureau, sec ; tion R., Xo. 168, December 17. j 1917). Very Secret, j To the Commissar on Foreign Af : fail's: ?. ! At the request of the commission I on combating the counter-revolution ?of December 17, the intelligence sec j tion has the honor to forward a list i of men watching the 'missions of thfe j countries allied, to Russia: j The British embassy is watched by [German scouts Lance, Telman, Rossel, j Franz and Gezel; Russian agents j Ovsiannikov, Glusehenko and Balia " sin. The French embassy is watched b? ! German ScGUts Silvester, Butz, Fol | hagen; Russian agents Balashev, I Turin. Gav'rilov, Sadanokov and Shi : lo. I The [*. S. A. embassy is watched by j German scouts Storm, Bucholtz, Fas : nacht. Todner: Russian' agents Spitz berg, Sckolnitzky, Tarasov, and Vavi , iov. ! The Roumanian mission is watched j by German scouts Suttner. Bai der. '.Wolf; Russian agents K?hl, Nikitin: I Zoic to v and Arkipov. v% . i The Italian . embasy is watched bj i German scouts Kuhlder, von Gez. Go: land Burmeister; Russian agents Sa ; Iov. Alekseievsky and Kuzmin. j These age its must fulfill ail in | structions of the commission for com j bating with counter-revolution, sabo j tage looting, etc.?Head of depart j meat, Agasfer. I Note?The German. Major Lubert. i (Agasfer, see Document 5), there i fore was the keeper of ambassadorial I hostages of the allied countries in j Russia throughout the winter. Ths j names listed above were unidenti ; liable in the establishments of at least the British and the American embas i sies. All may have been outside ; watchers. The method of outside surveillance is shown in Document r;o. 27. Have photograph of letter. 1 Document No. 26. (G. G. S., Nachrichten Bureau, Sec tion Ik. Fe!.. : : >:. t ? Bernonal to the Commissar of For*. ! eign Affair.-;: According to my personal co.n , ? creation with th.- chairman of tin council of people's commissars, it has [been decided to delay tin* departure ? of the Italian embassy from Peters j burg ami. as far as possible, to ?search tin- embassy baggage. Of this decision I count it my duty to inform I you.- For the head of the depart ment, R. Bauer; adjutant, Henrich. 1 Not" ?Across the top of letter is written by Trotzky ""Instruct." ami signed with his initials L. T. lt'. here set forth laconically that a German officer of th<- general staff .iiiii Lentne in conference ordered lie M.-h x>i tie- baggage of t-h* arnbas :ador of country friendly to RtSs ia and :it war with Germany; an?i j that Trotzky gave the instructions foi carrying oat the order. A clerk*: not.- ;ii the bottom is additionally specified "To be giv.en to Blagon ravoff." The inst named was the commissar of martial law in Petro grad. Tin- Italian embassy train was j 'delayed for more than 'i \ hours when t sought to depart, some days later i Petroff, assistant foreign minister, told me on [March 2. with a great show of indignation that "The Ital ians had given a diplomatic passport to the embassy cook." So, he said, it was right to search the train. If they had better luck than they did when they held up and searched the Italian .ambassador in his automobile almost " in front of the Motel Europe I did j not hear of it. Document 27 tells of ; the robbery. Have original letter, No. 26. Documen # No. 27. (Commisar on combating the coun ter revolution and progroms, No. j 71, Petrograd. Feb. 14.) j Specially Secret?Personal, j To the People's Commissar on For eign Affairs: Our agents investigating the i Italian embassy. I. E. Maerov, j Imenitski, and Uroy followed up i the ambassador and conducted a j search of him in the street, \vith a j confiscation. Documents regarding I relations with German diplomats and the special papers of the ambassador j to the allied ambassadors, mentioned i by you, were not found. In order to : mask the attack several articles list ed in the protocol furnished by Com ' rade Imenitski were taken from the ambassador. i The watch on the British and American ambasadors and the Ser 1 bian minister has been intensified. : The.; supplementary point on th< British embassy has been established ; in the Marble Palace?Lieutenant i Eekker and a member of the central ; ereeU?ve committee of the council of ! workmen's and soldiers' deputies, ! Frunze! i On the French embassy, on the j French Quay., house No. 8, Colnrade ; Peters, member of the central execu tive committee of the council, etc. ?On the North American embassy observation has been established a* Fuhrsjtatskaya Street, house No. 2?, apartments-Nos. 1 and 4. In the lat: ter Comrades Goldberg and Spitz - i berg carrying on the observation verv j successfully. Telephones have been j installed in the above mentioned j places., General management of the } surveillance has been intrusted to Al j fred von Geitendorf.?Commissar j Mitopoyieh; for Secretary fi. Baetski. Note?The marginal comment by ; Trctzky's secretary, tylarkin, is "Fol j low up." Most of the names in this j latter, including the signatures at ! end. are unfamiliar. Peters, placed ! in charge of French observation, is a I Lettish->sailor, active and able, a I former.resident of England. The rob j bery -qf ..Uie Italian ambassador took i placetfl^te/ in the evening on a lighted I frequented central street and was a i day's . ,sensation. The observation j point. op the American embassy was j a yellp.^r apartment house almost op 1 posite.^he<entrance. After I got this I information I tested the watch' and ! always *iw a head or hand' retreating ] from', a- window*. But I doubt if Ihe i watchers profited much by studying the visitors to the embassy-. Have-fphoto graph of letter..,.1.;,..' , ^ Document No. 2:8. j (Gr. (Greta:) General Staff, Central I Abtheiiung Section M, No. 369. Feb.-. v :.> I , . . (Confidential) \To the Commissar of Foreign Affairs: According to instructions of th I imperial, government, 1 ha ve the hon j or to ask you to provide in thf j shortest possible time a list showing j what "commercial bouts, auxiliary J cruisers, and transports may be sent j to the', waters of the Pacific Ocean, I where.' the German government in I tends to form for the purpose of op I posing the American-Japanese trade, j a powerful commercial fleet dying the j Russian flag. j At the same time I call your at tention to the data that in your Bal j tic fleet your sailors are selling from {the war ships the launches, small ? fittings, copper, and bronze parts oi j machines, etc. Would it not be the ! proper time to raise the question of j selling to Germany these war vessels i which are being stripped and disarm ed?. Please communicate the decision ! of the government.?Head of th^ i Russian Section of the German Gen j eral StafL ?. Rausch; Adjutant, U. J VVoJLff. Note?Opposite first paragraph is (.notation "Ask Lomaf. . Markin." j iJa'tter was one of Trotzky's secre j taries. Opposite paragraph second, j Markin makes notation "Refer to j Haskolnikoff." Latter is a eommis ] sar on naval general staff, who con ducted con -irenee with German offi cers in Kronstadt in March, April and July, '1917, and an active aid to Dybenko in stirring up the Russian j tieet to revolt. Do not know who ? Lomaf is. The imp ntance of the I first paragraph as indicating the use j against America to which Germany i intends to put Russia is self-e\ 1 mt j The ludicrous picture painted . ; second paragraph at once intensifies ; the shame of the ending of the tine j new Russian navy and discloses the j German hope of securing and refit I ting the vessels. Have original letter. Document No. 29. f t _ J (G. G. S Nachrichten Bureau, Sec tion R., No. js.s.-j, March 1?, 1918'.) (Very Secret.) 1 : To the Commission for Fighting the Counter-Revolution: j U is herewith communicated thai I for watching*, and if necessary at 1 tacking the Japanese, American, and Russian officers who may command the expeditionary forces in Eastern Siberia our agents Stau fache r, , Krieger, Geze. Waiden, Buttenhoff Dattan, and Skribanovich take charge, and *.o whom it is necessary that either Commissar Kobozeff or anv of those named by the commis sion must apply. Head. R. Bauer. Note- Comments to "Telegraph Kobozeff" and "Telegraph Straberg" of illegible signature appear on let ter, and below it is the order "the list." initialed "D. '/.." corresponding with the signing habit of Dzei-zinski, chairman of the commision for light ing the counter revolution. Below 'his order appears the list of address" i s. as follows: Report according to List No. ::. 1. Slaufacher. Vladivostok, Ban I off'S house. ' 2. R. Krieger. Nlkolsk. Ussurisky. :>. P. Cr. r. Z. v.. Irkutsk, drug: store Zhinzeroff. j 4. F. Wal don, Vladivostok, his own house. I 5. Buttenhoff, Khabarovsk, firm Kunst & Albers. 6. A. Dattan, Tomsk, Xechayefs kaya Street. 7. Kuzberg. Harbin, office of the 'Chinese-Eastern Railway. S. G. Skribanovich. Blakoveschc hsk, house of Kunst & Albers. 9. Panoff, Vladivostok, his own house. This letter was sent me after**! left Petrograd and readied me April 5. ! It is important not only for content, ! indicating as it does the names and ; addresses of agents destructors who are called upon for increasing ac tivity against the United States and 'Japan to make the Pacific Ocean a j new area of terror, but showing that ?the German general staff was con-i : tinuing after the Brcst-L.itov.sk ? "Peace ' to work actively with the ; Russian Bolshevik government. Have original letter. : Big Church Rally at Email a el >L E. Church. Colored. ! -\- , j On Sunday. Sept. 22. the pastor, : officers end members of the Kmanuel ! M. E. Church. South Main Street, will i rally to pay off their long standing in Idebtedness in full. Two thousand ; dollars is the amount needed and the ? members of this church, one of the leidest and best negro churches in the I city and State, are working and mak i.ing every sacrifice to pay the debt and ! burn the morteasre off the?r bea'utifiil tnd well kept brick structure,. For three years the Rev. J. W. Sloultrie, pastor, has been leading- hh* forces forward looking to this goal. They are worthy people ar:d on the approaching Sabbath a special pro gram is arranged for the public. At 11 o'clock a. m. and 8.30 p. m., the pastor will prach and his people wiil rally. Special Afternoon Services for Whites At I o'clock the Rev. Dr. Truesdale of Trinity Methodist church and Sen ator R. D. Epps will deliver address es. The Emanuel church choir un der the direction of Prof. E E. Jones, chorister, will render good music, in cluding choruses, old plantation mel odies and spirituals. Many of us re member well how the colored people sang at the park on the Fourth of July. A treat is in store. Seats re served for the whites. As this is their final debt-paying raliy and as these home pople deserve every encouragement all should lend a hand. WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS. Jnter-Allied Labor Recommends a Conference! to Describe and Adopt Policy of Clearness. London, Sept. 19.?The internation al relations committee of inter-Allied labor today made a report recom mending a conference "To describe ithe fourteen points formulated by President Wilson, thus adopting % I olicy of clearness and moderation as opposed to the policy dictated ex pensively by changes in the war map.5' BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS ^ Subscribers to 3rd Liberty Loan will please call for their Bonds. We will be very glad to file these Bonds in our vaults for safe-keep ing for those who may desire us to do so. The National Bank of 8 u niter, T .e "Old Reliable" Since 1889 \ J. P. BOOTH, W. J. 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