Sudden Deaths

Killings and trials for the past week in Bolshevikland:

P: One Julius Lutovinov, member of the Federal Executive Council of Soviets, became subject to nervous depression, shot himself.

P: Princess Obelensky, beautiful daughter of former Prince Obelensky, Governor General of Petrograd, was tried for brigandage. She will probably be executed.

P: It leaked out that on May Day a Soviet train was wrecked; many were killed. A White plot was charged.

P: MM. Tshrdynzev and Kalinin, directors of the State Textile Trust, were condemned to death. Their crime was betraying State capitalism.

P: Soviet Judge Kniazev slew his stenographer. He liked her, but his affections were not reciprocated. He was put on trial.

P: An anti-revolutionary movement broke out in Siberia. It was quelled by the Bolsheviki at a cost of the lives of 600 men, women and children.

P: "Lenin's Last Will" is said by those who know to contain instructions for the annihilation of Nepmen, profiteers under the New Economic Policy (NEP), instituted by Lenin himself. A great drive against Nepmen was in progress and 50,000 people were earmarked for deportation to Siberia.

P: For taking bribes and otherwise being corrupt, 42 persons, therein included three judges, one prosecutor, ten investigators and a sprinkling of lawyers, were put on trial. They will probably be executed.

P: Bishop Prokopius was to be shot for high treason. At the last moment he was exiled and his property confiscated.

P: Stories of arrests, deaths sudden and otherwise were discounted by one Kurski, Commissioner of Justice. Said he: "The total number of arrests of all classes in the last six weeks does not exceed 100, the majority of whom probably will soon be released. Most prominent among these are seven members of the late Prince Golitzyn's family, who were arrested in Leningrad [Petrograd] for corresponding with the Grand Duke Cyril, one of the claimants to the ! Russian throne."