REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 27

REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA.

M. LENIN’S STATE4OF HEALTH. PARIS, January 19. Messages from Russia state that ST. Lenin is suffering from a nervous disorder, so severe in character that it approaches madness. Lenin was going to the recent Soviet Congress, when a bomb was thrown into his motor car. Lenin was not injured, but eight soldiers and three civilians were killed, and 20 others wounded. Numerous arrests were made, but the assassin escaped. TURKEY AND THE SOVIETS. LONDON, January 18. Bolshevist apprehensions regarding ths Turkish Nationalist advance eastward appear te be, reflected in advices from Tiflis that owing to an ultimatum by the Armenian Soviet Government to Turkey the Turks evacuated Alexandropoi. It is also reported that the Armenian Soviet, backed by Moscow, demanded the immediate evacuation of Kars, and the withdrawal of all Turkish troops to the 1914 frontiers of Armenia, and fud and immediate reparation for damage done by Turkish troops in Armenia. AN UNWISE PROCEEDING. LONDON, January 23. The Sunday Times states that the Allied interests have been badly compromised by some French manufacturers supplying Kemal Pasha with munitions, thus causing forebodings on the part of British coni' merciai firms which are interested in the Greek trade. A SHREWD SUGGESTION. WASHINGTON, January 22. President Wilson proposes that the Powers should guarantee Russia from attack to test the Soviet’s contention that it is afraid to demobilise the army for fear* o-f new agressions. A WHOLESALE DEPORTATION. NEW 7 YORK, January 22. One hundred and twenty Radicals, Bolshevists, and other undesirables, have beer deported along with A! arte ns on board a Swedish liner bound for Gothenburg. Nearly 50 people make up 'Martens’s official entourage as Soviet Ambassador.