TSAR LENIN

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1919, Page 16

TSAR LENIN

LIVING IN SECLUSION.

The Kremlin, where Lenin and moat of the Soviet Commissaries live, is protected like a fortress by a triple guard of sailors, Letts, and Chinese, states a correspondent to the Daily Chronicle. It is extremely difficult, almost impossible, to obtain an authorisation to see Lenin. And even then, the visitor is searched from head to foot before being allowed to enter his apartments.

The churches within the precincts of the Kremlin aro closed. In tho city, the churches are filled day and night with fervent kneeling crowds praying for deliverance from the nightmare of Bolshevik rule, but no priest is allowed to officiate in them, and no service may be held. The most popular preachers, whose influence over the masses the Bplsheviks feared, have been either killed or imprisoned, among them tho Patriarch Tikhon.

All tho fin© Socialistic decrees issued by the Soviet, my informants unanimously declare, exist only on paper, and have proved absolutely illusory. , Thus, all theatres having been nationalised, the tickets for the performances are distributed by the Government amongst tho "proletariat," but the workmen, do not taks the slightest interest in dramatic art, and at once sell their tickets at a good price to the despised bourgeois. Another decree establishes that top mail service within tho limits of the Republic shall be free of charge for alj citizens, but this is of advantage, to nobody, becauso the postal organisation has long since collapsed altogether, and letters arc scarcely ever delivered. \