Bolshevik Leaders Named German Agents in Wartime Documents
Series of communications released by the public information committee allege that Lenine and Trotsky and their associates acted as German agents in Petrograd, financed by the German Imperial Bank, and that the Bolshevik revolution and Brest-Litovsk treaty served German imperial interests. The documents claim payments, German bank orders, and coordination with the German general staff to control Russian industry and undermine allied powers.
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Lenine and
Trotsky
Imperial Bank
Treaty of Brest- Litovsk
Lenine
Trotzky
Germany
Russia
Bolshevist
Ministry of Justice
Stockholm
Ask
America
Greular
High Sea Feet
United States
Porte
France
Europe
Petrograd
Democracy
Rascinskey
Dybenko
Finland
I Jion
Luberts
Gers
Ant Ward
Ahaa
Lee Eodoneenn
Laberts
Siberia
German Imperial Bank
Vladivostok
Bolshevists
Council O People's Commissars
Austria
Bolsheviat
Council of People's Commissars
Great Britain
England
Brest-Litovsk
Japan
Asia
Bolshevist Commissar of Foreign Affairs
Estland
Liva
Courtland
Courtland All Agitators of the Central Creative Committee of
the Soviet of Workmen's and
Ukraine
Troteky
Edgar Sisson
Erican Secret Service
Po Tey
Sweden
Zinovieff
Kameneff
Sumenson
Kozlovsky
Kollontei
Sivera
Merkalin
Department of Secret Service
Department of Police
Okrana
High Sea
Secret Service Department
Petersburg
Espionage Ties Reported Between German Officers and Russian Command
A released document lists German officers placed at the disposal of the Russian government as military advisers. Major Tirieh Major Bode Major Kass Major Zimmerman Major Andera Lieutenant Haare Lieutenant Klein Lieutenant Brettz, with a cadre to be selected from prisoners for the FRunsasiat government, notes Lenine Zinovieff’s Stockholm travel.
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GR Great General Staff
Central Abtheilung
Berlin
Council of People
Kronstadt
Revolutionary Army
Deoe
Lenino
Trotaky
Raskolnikov
Dybenko
Counter Revolutionary Movement
Tun Ioe L Ceoeane
Goren
Council of People's Commissarable
Tirieh
Bode
Kass
Zimmerman
Andera
Haare
Klein
Brettz
Frunsasiat
Stockholm
Lenine
Zinovieff
Rusgia
Stead
O. Rausch
U. Wolff
Famous Koran Stolen From Russian Library
United Press reports the theft of the world’s most famous Koran from the Petrograd public library. Photographic copies remain at the library while the original volume, once gifted from Turkey, is sought. A bid of 1,000,000 dollars had been offered by American collectors days before the theft.
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Joseph Shaplen
United Press
Corerspondent
New York
Petrograd
F. Oldenburg Sule
Mussolmans
Allah
Mahomet
Muhammedan Church
Turkey
Canada May Soon Be Eating Horse Meat
A Canadian move to permit horse meat sales in butcher shops has backing from major livestock groups in western Canada and aims to present a formal recommendation to the Dominion government. The Alberta Norse, Cattle Sheep and Swine Breeders' Association argues horse meat under European-style rules could save money as many light horses no longer productive consume feed. European data show Paris households eating horse flesh and Germany using tens of millions of pounds of horse meat annually, with dogs also consumed in 1909.
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Galgary
Iberia
Can
Canada
Dominion
Alberta
Europe
Paris
Germany
The Longest War and the 1914 Impasse
From the Saturday Evening Post perspective the 1914 conflict stretched into a prolonged modern war. It argues that attrition exhausted nations, with estimates of tens of millions of casualties and vast costs, suggesting that this longest war should be the last.
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Saturday Evening Post
Lexington
Yorktown
Fort Sumter
Appomattox
Torgau
Europe
Rgents
Rilliana
Austria-Hungary
Glass Fashione Miss Prior Visits Poor Woman
Charity worker Miss Prior visits a small town home to assess a poor family. She laments the children wear glasses and suggests they all need them, while the mother defends their appearance, insisting the glasses look lovely. Remarks cause implied tension and concern for the grieving family.
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Saturday Evening Post
Miss Prior
Mour Littl
Visitor
Britain Faces Coal Shortage Warns Of Rationing Policy
Sir Guy Calthrop the coal controller told delegates the country faces a 36 million ton annual coal shortfall. He urged rationing of horsehole coal gas and electricity to save 8 to 9 million tons, aiming to leave 27 million tons to be found by increased output and prioritizing essential industries. He warned allied demand especially American troops would rise, and noted July output was the worst since the war began, with influenza reducing mine labor by up to half in some pits.
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London Times
Guy Calthrop
France
London
Haly
Belgium Must Be Restored In Just Peace Terms
Senator Lodge argues Belgium's restoration is essential for a just peace and cites President Wilson's January address. The Belgian losses are vast, with $1.5 trillion in damages and $465 million in wartime taxes. fines and theft by Germany add tens of millions. Restoration should span in kind indemnity and cash, aided by Belgium’s allies, before Germany can settle remaining debts.
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New York Times
Lodge
Belgium
Germany
Brussels
Cardinal Mercier
Mons
Holland
Rupprecht
Caste and Playgoers Across Time Found in India and Virginia
The piece contrasts India’s caste system with its social consequences and recalls an early American theatrical event in Accomac Virginia in 1605. It notes the unyielding barriers among castes and the enduring social division, alongside a historical court record of the play Ye Bear and Ye Cubb acted before farmers and villagers.
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Accomac
Virginia
New York
Corneline Watkinson
Philp Howard
William Darby
William Penn
Edward Martin
John Fawsett
Mr. Pawnett
Martin
Edward
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Trateky
Teuton
Imial Bank
Muller
Commissar For Foreign Affaires
Ir. Zallkina
BE. Polivanoff
Ruevian Council of People’s Commissars
Vladimir Ullanov
Leon Trotzky
A. Joffe
Secret Department
B. U
Lenine Ia
V. U
Vladimir Ulianov
Aml
Saiff
High Sea Fleet
Marineagenturen
Flotten¢éremnen
Nachrichten Bureau
General Staff of the
Koenig
Secret Service Bureau
Agasser
Luberta
Gente
Government of People's Comuiestra
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
von Schoenemann
Ministry of Finance
von Toll
German General Staff
T. Wolff
Commissariat On Foreign Affairs
Military Revolutionary Committees
Muraviel Boul
Danishiie
Nming
Military Revolutionary Committee
Council of Workers and Soldiers’ Deputies
A. Jofste
Andora
Rubakov
Major Urich
Egorov
Yinovieff
Britain
Christian Science Monitor
India
Alan
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