on the continuation of the war, because they desire to ruin Russia.  Proclamations in this sense have been found, together with a voluminous anti-Semitic literature, in the offices of the party of Lenine Bolsheviki (Maximalists), and particularly at the headquarters of the extreme revolutionaries, Chateau Knheshinskaja.  Salutations.  BLANK.

That the leaders of the Bolsheviki, particularly Lenine and Trotzky, ever entered into any “agreement” with the Black Hundreds, or took any part in the anti-Semitic campaign referred to, is highly improbable.  Unless and until it is supported by ample evidence of a competent nature, we shall be justified in refusing to believe anything of the sort.  It is, however, quite probable that provocateurs worming their way into Lenine’s and Trotzky’s good graces tried to use the Bolshevik agitation as a cover for their own nefarious work.  As we have seen already, Lenine had previously been imposed upon by a notorious secret police agent, Malinovsky.  But the open association of the Bolsheviki with men who played a despicable role under the old regime is not to be denied.  The simple-minded reader of Bolshevist literature who believes that the Bolshevik government, whatever its failings, has the merit of being a government by real working-men and working-women, needs to be enlightened.  Not only are Lenine and Trotzky not of the proletariat themselves, but they have associated with themselves men whose lives have been spent, not as workers, not even as simple bourgeoisie, but as servants of the terror-system of the Czar.  They have associated with themselves, too, some of the most corrupt criminals in Russia.  Here are a few of them: 

Professor Kobozev, of Riga, joined the Bolsheviki and was active as a delegate to the Municipal Council of Petrograd.  According to the information possessed by the Russian revolutionary leaders, this Professor Kobozev used to be a police spy, his special job being to make reports to the police concerning the political opinions and actions of students and faculty members.  One of the very first men released from prison by the Bolsheviki was one Doctor Doubrovine, who had been a leader of the Black Hundreds, an organizer of many pogroms.  He became an active Bolshevik.  Kamenev, the Bolshevik leader, friend of Lenine, is a journalist.  He was formerly a member of the old Social Democratic party.  Soon after the war broke out he was arrested and behaved so badly that he was censured by his party.  Early in the Revolution of 1917 he was accused of serving the secret police at Kiev.  Bonno Brouevitch, Military Councilor to the Bolshevik government, was a well-known anti-Semite who had been dismissed from his military office on two occasions, once by the Czar’s government and once by the Provisional Government.  General Komisarov, another of Lenine’s trusted military officials and advisers, was formerly a chief official of the Czar’s secret police, known for his terrible