IN RUSSIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12070, 27 July 1917, Page 5

IN RUSSIA.

M. LENIN ARRESTED. ACCUSED OF BEING A SPY. Aufltr&lian and N.Z. Cabls Association. (Received July 27, 0.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 26. A telegram from Petrograd states that M. Lenin has been arrested in Finland and charged with being a Gorman spy. IN FINLAND. EXTREMIST AGITATORS ARRESTED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Ae&sciatlon. ("Received. .Tulv 27. noon.) COPENHAGEN, Only 26. The Russian Government is taking strong measures ugaiiiff the. extreme Socialists at Helsi^gfors. A number of Lenin's friends have been arrested, and the Military Committee at Helsingfors has been dismissed.

MUTINEERS IN BALTIC FLEET,

THE GOVERNMENT'S MEASURES. Australian and J7.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 27, 1 p.m.) PETROGRAD, July 26. The Ministry of Marine has ordered the Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic fleet to send at full speed four torpedoboats to Petrograd to act against the crowds of mutineers coming from Kronstadt. The Government is aware that the crews of some of th<"* battleships in the Baltic are largely composed of Anarchists who threaten to support the m'atinous garrisons in Kronstadt. The Ministry of Marine has therefore ordered that any warships attempting to leave Kronstadt must be torpedoed by the submarines on guard.

TO PUNISH TREACHERY. Renter's Telegrams. (Received July 27. 2 p.m.) PETROGRAD, July '26, The Government is suspending newspapers inciting to disobedience of military orders and acts of violence. The editors will be tried. A decree creates enemy front revolutionary courts-martial, each composed of three officers^,and three privates, to deal with mutinies, disobedience and treachery. The Government is ■convoking a conference at Moscow of delegates of the principal representative bodies to con« sider the country's position. Tho judiciary is taking measures to bring to justice the organisers of tho recent revolt.