DEATH OF LENIN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 296, 3 September 1918, Page 5

DEATH OF LENIN

ASSASSINATED BY A WOMAN THREE SHOTS AT CLOSE QUARTERS PASSING OF BOLSHEVIK LEADER London, September 1. iNickolai Lenin, the Bolshevik Prime Minister of Russia, is dead, as the result of haying been shot by a woman of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. STORY OF THE ATTACK. ■' Amsterdam, September 1. A mcssago from Moscow states that Lenin, after addressing a meeting of labourers, was stopped by two women, who discussed the recent decrees regarding tho importation of foodstuffs to Moscow. During the interview a young girl of the , intellectual class fired three shots, wounding Lenin in the shoulder and lungs. The' girl was arrested, and declared that she was a Social Revolutionary. Another account states that the shots wore fired by two women Social Revolutionaries.—fleuter. ANOTHER BOLSHEVIK MINISTER ASSASSINATEDAmsterdam, September l._ A Petrogrnd message via Berlin states that the Commissary of Homo Affairs, M. Unitski, lias been assassinated. His murderers have been arrested.—Router. AMERICAN CITIZENS IN RUSSIA. New York, September 1. The New York "Tinies" correspondent at Washington states that tho State Department has received dispatches from the American Charge d'Affaires at Stockholm saying he has received telegrams from the American Consul (General Poolo) at Moscow saying that 95 Americans have left Moscow for Petrograd. Genoral Poole is remaining at Moscow.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

BRUSILOFF ARRESTED BY THE ROLSHEVIKI (Rec. September 2, 11.50 p.m.) . Amsterdam) September 1. General Brusiloff has been arrested and imprisoned in the Kremlin, on suspicion of aiding the counter-revolution. —"The Times. , ' . THE WAR ON THE BOLSHEVIKI New Ycrlt, September 1. Tile United Press correspondent at Vladivostok- states that tho Entente and Ozcflho-Siovaks , forces fought the Bolslsorik JRed Guards on tho Usuri River, drovo boiv the enemy fifteen milos. and tools prisoners and hoot}'. The Now York "Times" correspondent at Peking states that General Scnit-notf hxs captured Boraie station. Tiso Bolsheviki are burning villagos in their retreat iilon£ the Onon River.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asen.

URGENT CALL FROM CENTRAL i \ SIBERIA. New York, September 1. The New York "Times" correspondent at Washington: states that information received says that it is imperative, that-arms and ammunition be sent to the Czecho-Slovaks in Central Siberia, before the winter seta in six weeks hence. It may bo necessary to send an expeditionary force through Manchuria via Khailar and Turga in China, thence along,the Siberian railway to Lake Baikal and Irkutsk.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. '

MORE ALLIED TROOPS WANTED FOB NORTHERN RUSSIA. New York, September 1. Press dispatches say that Nicholas Vasslloviteh' Tschaikovsky, President of the new Sovereign Government in Northern Russia; has appealed for more Allied troops as a nucleus of the formation of a Russian arm.y to fight the Germans and Bolsheviki.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . RUSSIAN RECRUITING FOR GERMAN ARMY STOPPED. New York, September 1. The .Now' York "World's" correspondent at Washington says that official advices .from Russia say that the flow, of Russian recruits to the German Army has ceased since , the arrival of' the Entente troops at Vladivostok and the spread of Entente propaganda.— Auß.-N.Z v Cable Assn. GRAND DUKE DIMITBI JOINS THE BRITISH.. Copenhagen, September 1. A Finnish newspaper states that the Grand Duke Dimitri Paulovitch has joined the British troops in Russia. Hβ has been mentioned as a candidate for the Russian Throne.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LIQUOR EXCESSES^THE PEASANTS Rome, September 1. According to ( German newspapers, the peasants in Ukraine and Central and Southern Russia have used at least two-thirds of the grain supply to make vodka. A thousand distilleries are at work, and any attempt to raid and destroy them results in fiorce conflicts. The peasants are well armed and Use machine-guns and bombs. In spite of the high price of- vodka, the drinkers of the spirit number millions, and a revival or the old evils of drunkenness, refusal to work, rioting and debauchery lias resulted.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

* THE BODY OF THE LATE TSAR New York, September 1. Tho United Press correspondent at Archangel states that according to information received by the American Ambassador (Mr. Francis) the tody of tho ex-Tsar Nicholas was not found when the Czecho-Slovaks entered Ekaterinburg. Nicholas was killed by the Commandant, when the soldiqrs refused to obey tho order to shoot him, —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [It was previously reported that the body of the late Tsar had been exhumed from the suicides' cemetery by tho Czecho-Slovaks and re-interred with more fitting honours.] THE BREST-UTOVSK TREATY Copenhagen, August 31. Additional provisions of the BrestLitovsk Troaty provido that Esthonia and Livonia shall be independent, but Russia secured a commercial connection with the Baltic. Russia also acknowledges tho Stato of Georgia.' Russia givps Germany the greater part of tho naphtha production in tlie Baku district, and also pays Germany an indemnification of six milliard marks.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.