Date: 1918-11-11
Source: ru:PSS/v50
Source: CW vol 50

9. XI. 1918. Secret
Urgent, out of all order
2 addresses:
Orel, to the provincial executive committee and the provincial committee of the communists
Kursk, to the provincial executive committee and the provincial committee of the communists
Just received a radiogram from Kiel, addressed to the international proletariat and informing,

* - "The State and Revolution". Ed.

TELEPHONED MESSAGE TO THE CHEKA. 11 NOVEMBER 1918.

that power in Germany has passed to the workers and soldiers.

This radiogram is signed by the Council of Sailors' Deputies of Kiel.

In addition, German soldiers at the front have arrested the peace delegation from Wilhelm and themselves began negotiations for peace directly with French soldiers.

Wilhelm has abdicated from the throne.

It is necessary to exert all efforts to inform the German soldiers in Ukraine as soon as possible and advise them to strike against the Krasnov forces, for
then we will together conquer tens of millions of poods of bread for the German workers and repel the invasion of the British, who are now approaching Novorossiysk with a squadron.

Telegraph about receipt and execution.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

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First published in 1933 in the Lenin Collection XXI

Printed from the manuscript