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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1925.

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New Book Reveals Lenin

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THE SUICIDE HABIT.

HOBBS' HUNDREDS.

EQUALS-DRW G GRACES RECORD.

We are told that the custom of auidido among party members has grown "to "such proportions 81 ce the beginning of the dispute with Trotsky that a special investig." iation had to be made and a report

prepared for the central organis A Century Against Somerset Fation as to prevoctivo mozguros, There can only be one cause for

Taunton, August 17. this epidemic. of self-murder dis- Playing for Surrey against appointment and disillusionment. Somerest, Hobbs scored 100 not All students who support Trot-out, thus equalling Dr. W. G. aky's views were driven out of the Grace's record of 126 centuries in universities, The use of the first class cricket-Reuter..

A record crowd at Taunton gave; Hobbs a splendid ovation as he was emerging from the pavilion.

That Lenin distrusted the pro- sent leaders of Bolshevisn, de. nouncing them as too brutal, as faithless to the revolution, and as too selfconfident, is revealed in a death bed letter which he laft to hie followers as his last will and testament.

This letter was suppressad by-cret police by the party bureau- the men to whom present power cracy for spying upon its own in Russia fell, but it is revealed membership, anya Mr. Eastman, in a book,published to day, whipteering the diffe and anaepted His acore on Saturday evening discloses from inside sources the method of destroying him. Nowins ninety one not out. There quarrels at the heart of the Red friend of Treuke would let you was wild enthusiasm when, after write him a letter that you did a few minutes plny he completed want to have read be the century, After adding another fore it reached his hands,"

single run, however, he caught by Hill, off Bridge. Com- parison between Hobbs and Grace is of little avail for the two great batsmen made their runs under very different conditions. This is Hobbs' thirteenth century this sea- son, equalling the record Jointly held by Fry, Hayward and Hen- dren.--Renter

move:nent.

The author lived in Resin while the dispute was going on associated with Communists and attended their gatherings, and obviously hae a close acquain tanceship with Trotsky.

That he should have decided to reveal all hp knew shows how have really serious matters become in Moscow,

And yet the British Trade Union Delegation who recently visited Russia came back and said that they could find no evidence of torrori...

was

RED ARMY DESTROYED. · In his recital of the measures LENIN'S FRANK VIEWS.

taken against Trotsky Mr. East man says:-"And the organian- When Lonin "was dying letion of the Red Army created by called his wife to his side, and Trotsky, understood by him, loyal confided to her bis last will and to him, and under his hand the LATE SHIPPING NEWS, testament in the form of a letter most powerful instrument over to the parly.

possessed by a revolutionary mo- In this letter be frankly ox-vement in the world, was invaded pressed bis views of the present and ripped to pieces and woak ruling triumvirate, Stalin, oned of its power to defend the Zinoviev and Kamenov.

revolution in order to make sure that it will never defend the name of Trotsky against those who are determined to destroy it."

Stalin, he said, had concentrat ed too much power in his hands. and was too brutal H6 urged that he should be removed from his dominating position. As for Zinoviev and Kameney, he plain ly indicated that they were not to be relied upon, and alluded, to their faithlessness at the time of the revolution.

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What was Trotsky's offonon? He dosired to see the party demo- Of Trotsky, he said he was aeratieed, to establish a workers devoted revolutionist, although democracy. That, as the author be added, that he had the fault of points out, would have destroyed "too great self-confidence."

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When William Plangrave re- turned from a stroll up in the mountains one night, says a San POWER ROPE Francisco message, he found four door had taken possession of hie cabin. They were all licking

this last will and tostament, as cials who wield not only political salt off the kitchen table. they had done other writings of but economio sovereignty over Lonin during his illnose, and one-sixth of the surface of the kopt the power in their own earth. hands. Thus the contr of the

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When a Franch railway' com Mr. Eastman terms those offi-pany official was buried at Paris revolution passad to men who had vial the "Soviet aristocracy," and a day or so ago, a funeral sermon WELL DRILLING deserted it at the start, and who says that he is not so sure that it which he wrote for himself was bad returned to it only to soon is not mare jealous of its author read. He wrote it bafore he died, Lait was successful-men whom ty than Lenin had never really trusted.

PLOT AGAINST TROTSKY.

When Lenin wae first taken ill he nominated Trotsky as his suo 068801. But Trotsky rafased because he knew that Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenov had form- ed a block against him, and that he would be in a minority at the seat of power.

Thereupon the trumvirate Bonaparte, Limited, as it is allud ed to by the author-set cut to destroy Trotsky.

aristocracios whose and requested that it be road at authority has a soldier founda- his bler. It gave to the assembled tion.

mourners some sensible advice.

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Bolshevism, he continuos is on the way to becoming a political church. It has not only the bo- ginnings of an official caste that brutal, is engaged in bitter strifo Trotsky was attacking, but the with Zinoviev, whom Mr. East- beginnings of a priesthood as well, man regarde as a timid old maid And all the old religions, theologi--not the strong man of popular cal metaphysical, absolutistical, conception. Kamenev loans to scholastic and dogmatical-acade to the side of Zinoviev. habits of the human race are against him.

BOLSHEVIK ARISTOCRACY.

TROTSKY THE POPULAR HERO.

But Mr. Eastman asserts that there are limits to what these

Old Bolsheviks, some of them

What a strange ending! Lenin men can do against Trotsky. He the closest personal f.iends and doified by atheists, his body lying insiste that Trotsky la a popular aides of Leain, were uprooted in state in the Red Square, his hero, that the majority of the from positions of administrativo last will looked up in a safe, the party supports him, and that Importance and shipped away to keys of which are in the pockets many old and prominent leaders kick their heala in foreign Em-of men who have noized the power, aro with him. bassies. All Trotsky's worke and whom he never trusted, All these revelatións, coming were repressed; the manager of Bolshevism ridiouling religion as they do from a man who is the State Publishing Department. and persecuting priests, itself a re-evidently a convinced Com- who had printed his book "1917,"ligion with a priesthood! Bolshe- munist, and who bus rubbed was dismissed, all members of theism, the onemy of aristocracy, aboulders and exchanged views party who favoured bis policy governed by an aristocracy of its with the Moscow leaders, fa were expelled.

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Boxtraordinarily interesting Many of them committed sui-

But already the curtain is rising. It is evident that Bolshevism is cide. Among these was Trotsky's.

on a new situation. The swiftly passing into decadence, own trusted secretary. An members of the triumvirate are and that a now and intongely obituary article written

bitterly disputing power among dramatic situation is shaping Trotsky was not printed.

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