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Show SOVIET REPUBLIC IN SORE STRAITS, LENINE ASSERTS AMSTERDAM, July 26. Premier Le-nine, Le-nine, in a speech at Moscow before the government conference of factory committees, com-mittees, said the position of the soviet republic had become extremely acute in view of international complications, counter-revolutionary conspiracies and the food crisis, according to - a Moscow dispatch dis-patch received by way of Berlin. The Russian proletariat know very well, M. Lenine told the conference, that the united action of the workers of the entire world was an essential condition to the victory of the Russian revolution, ft was easy for Russia to begin a revolution, revo-lution, but extraordinarily difficult to continue con-tinue and conclude it. On the other hand, the beginning of a revolution in such a long organized bourgeois country as Germany Ger-many was extremely difficult, but then it would be so much easier to carry it to completion. Referring to the Brest-Litovsk treaty, Lenine said that according to the treaty Russia must pay Germany 6,000,000,000 rubles. The attempt of the social revolutionists revo-lutionists of the Left to entangle Russia in a war with Germany by the murder of the German ambassador was no way to evade the treaty. The way out must be found by the joint exertions of the proletariat and the poor peasants. |