wrote a letter to a Bolshevist by the name of Raphael Scholan, who became later one of the Bolshevist commissaries in Soviet Russia, as follows:
Stockholm, Sept. 21, 1917.
“To Mr. Raphael Scholan,
Haparanda.
Dear Comrade:
The banking house, M. Warburg, opened an account for the enterprise of Comrade Trotzky, upon receipt of a telegram from the Chairman of the ‘Rhein-Westphalian Syndicate.’ A lawyer, probably Mr. Kestroff, obtained ammunition and organized the transportation of same, together with that of the money, to Lulea and Vardo, the firm of Essen & Son, Lulea, as to the consignee and the confidential persons to whom the sum demanded by Comrade Trotzky is to be handed. Fraternal greetings!
(sgd) Furstenberg.”
Rumors that international Jewish financiers have been supporting the Bolsheviki in Russia are persistent.
Who are the international financiers? Perhaps the answer is to be found in the following cable dispatch