FAITHLESS RUSSIA

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4964, 3 September 1918, Page 5

FAITHLESS RUSSIA

BOLSHEVIK LEADER DEAD SHOT BY YOUNG GIRL. HUNS LOSE A HANDY ACCOMPLICE. United Services. LONDON, Sept. 1. Lenin is dead. lieutor’e Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 1. A Moscow message states that Lenin, after addressing a meeting laborers, was stopped by two women, who discussed the recent decrees on the importation of foodstuffs ut Moscow. During the interview a young girl of tlie intellectual class fired three shots, wounding Lenin in the shoulder and lungs. The girl was arrested. She declared she was a Social Revolutionary. Another account states that the shots were fired by two women Social Revolutionaries.

BATTLE AT USSURI RIVER CZECHS SHORT OF AMMUNITION. APPEAL FOR "FURTHER ALLIED HELP. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. The New York Times Washington correspondent states that information has been received stating that it is imperative that arms and ammunition should be sent to the Czechoslovaks- before flip winter sets in, six weeks hence.

It may be necessary to send an expeditionary force through Manchuria via Khuirair Tunga towards China, thence along tlie Siberian railway to Lake Baikal and Irkutsk. Hie Bolshevjki are retreating and burning villages along the Onon river. The New York World’s Washington correspondent states that official advice from Russia states that the How of Russian recruits to the German Army has ceased since the . arrival of Entente troops at Vladivostok and the spread oi Entente propaganda work. New York press despatches from Archangel state that Nicholas Vassilovitch Tschaikovsky, president of the new sovereign government of Northern Russia, has appealed for more Allied troops as the nucleus of the formation of a Russian army to fight the Germans and Bolsheviks. A Finnish newspaper states that the Grand Duke Dimitri Faulovitch has joined the British troops m Russia. He is mentioned as a candidate for the Russian throne.

BRUSILOFF ARRESTJED. The Times. (Received Sent. 2. 11 p.m.) AMSTERDAM. Sept, 1. General Brusiloff has been imprisoned at Kremlin on suspicion of aiding the counter-revolution.