Reaction Rumors

The demise of Lenin was said to have caused reaction in some quarters against the Bolshevik regime.

In Amur, province of far-eastern Siberia, anti-Bolshevik troops were reputed to have seized the Government and to have declared Amur a free State.

At Omsk, capital of Omsk Province in West Siberia, an anti-Bolshevik outbreak occurred. About 300 Bolsheviki were arrested, some were shot without trial. A group of 22 Bolsheviki were hemmed in a house, burned alive.

Anti-Bolshevik activities were reported at Skivra, Lazarevka, Sincha, Nikitovska, all of which are in South Russia.

Trotsky, Commissar for War, was reported to have been killed. This was later denied.

The Daily Mail, London journal, claimed to have received news of a colossal pogrom of Jews, which is to take place because Lenin, just before his death, "crawled on all fours like a beast around the room in his carefully guarded retreat at Gorky and shouted: 'God save Russia and kill the Jews!'"

The Russian Embassy at London said that anti-Soviet reports were a political movement of the anti-Bolsheviki and had no foundation in fact.