LENIN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 10 July 1917, Page 5

LENIN.

A REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIAN

v n rtS^ tches l from Russia- says the New ' , lork Times, have been full of a name ' heaV'nf^ 1161 *1^ read^«~Lenin hear of Lenm travelling through Ger many and receiving ev_e?y sort of courl ties 7 nfdT aid f^ m th* c -G™* and . ties of Lenm haranguing a crowd from ' the balcony of the Pitrofrad home of famous Russian dancer; of adWnteof Lenin driven from one of his lectu?i by an infuriated mob of Russians I protest against his peat-I-?n y -SicJ exhortations: of a parade of fi soldiers, wounded in battle agaS he ( Germans, marching through the ?wl iaffi^«Bfcr_ufe? +v,f n S Jife Lenm ha« been "agin' the Government." Not only +hn+ £ comes of a family of chronSebels One t* whl1? a student Petrograd 3r} ?'' W3S fOT complicity [n a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexan&l +1, v T n, who has now leaped into ! asaith ght 9S ar^-troSmaker against the new democratic regime in Russia has been prominent amoS the! Sriv ttn°f lllS S^ 6 land si°ce the early nineties. He is described as » ' I X S°sf £ 5 y^™ °ld* one of the most neiy of all Russian orators, who choos_^ ! spLSl6B^ Tf and P^as°e S Cln°S fi*+ i. tti- ~ real name is Vladimir 1 tot ofT^* >>* fo^ *c I BS lct . of Simbinsk m the Volga region orß ussia . He first came to tn¥tog_\ 1895, when he wrote a book on e<W mics strongly impregnated with revohT Lenin's second book appeared in isqq and X by far the best fno™ of all S tt^Sfe*-^^-^ In 1901 Lenin bobbed up as editor of So earkt C 1 ne™P*Pe? laW (tfaj de2rt } of tL WR. P?blM^ d in P«*», tte uesire ot th.c Tsar's police to lay hands on Lenm having become so pressing 2 in IJOS he became a candidate for the Second Duma, from the District «? Petrograd, but he was defeated H e waf active ,n the revolutionary movement Sb l: T aS. the P ost Prions with f™£i *c Tsf s r-eSime hfld been con ekW7 X° r a °ng time- When the reb-~ els had been downed Lenin again found I Sfirf 168 mo]* c healthfu and rt W, i^ r? ad continuously— at least he did "oft,c,ally"_ Unt il frhe events which mTnencf h™ At the outbreak of the war he was whSfT'' Capital of Austrian Poland "here he was promptly gaoled as an alien enemy But he' wwlooL >e£aS hi r^±f r to b-aU^T tieS ' whSS^ Swiwianl. t0 h3S °ld haUDtS ' Paris a»d Russia!? a^o inf him'" said a Ne^ York W&f T d SO are most Russians ?™ 'wI a™ c? nyinced that he is do™g Wh wh? ls aoin S no* f<^ TSe Germans, but for what he thinks are tL '^SSiVS aLt Bffi' ,ißm 'l^-ff^ ciwdhey^ ct°rt X cal[*ng him and his ciowd Porajentzi'—the people who Es oneff aen- A? d theT- accust £L° n o^ m ? f ,?. om Plicity with the and ask him searching mies WelS V™ j* happenedm4a q t Uhe -ravelled across Germany by special tKtS dthTe made mUCh °f & £2falTrf th^e ha PP«ned to £fa special train bearing Russian prisoners man^? been- ex^anged Pfor Ger mans held m Russia, and that Lenin was allowed to ride oi the train purely as a matter of courtesy. P 5 1 think it safe to say that if Lenin were actually in the pay of the Ger" mans, or really doing German propaSSS i WOrk * h?, WOuld have heen arrested long ago."