PARLIAMENT BEAR GARDEN

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13658, 28 March 1918, Page 1

PARLIAMENT BEAR GARDEN

' A craphic : picture is padnted |by

the Tetrograd 'liyen' iot parliamentary etiquette as practised by ;; the, Bolsheviti. Describing: a- meeting of the Central. Soviet,, it writes:—; "The hall resounds with profane 1 expletives. The ohalrmam, a trust- j ed lieutenant of Trotsky, replies to an. attack by a critical member, who makes an unsa.Yoiy insinuation^ with, j regard to a Bolsheiviiet policy. Some-' body calls Trotsky a 'blackguard.' j | Tihe Bolshevists jiump' Mip from tlheir I seats; out to.the quick by such m-1 | act of lese-roiajesty; they make for ! ! the offender and threaten to lynch Bm. The; offender ducks under the ! ©hairs, trying to eKoape., Stoime take his part, others pounce upon his de- ■ fenders. The noise of' moving: chairs ; amd falling^'articles of furniture, is •| mergied in the:'general The •air is heavy with angry shouts, pierc : j ing whistles, and mairket«place exj (pleiives. Ttbtsky" leaps *° tne ! trißune and urges; his 1 followers to further violence: The chairman., after i. vaitily stnigtgliTiig' to b© heard, at last ? leaires," the oliair, 'ifom&<mvng ' the meeting to general pandwrnooium."