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Show TROOPS CALLED TO FIND SPY OF JTAISER Petrograd, July 25. All Russia Joined today to back up tho "unlimited "unlim-ited power" granted to Its government govern-ment In searching out the traitor, tho malcontent, tho spy and tho coward cow-ard from Its population. Tho nation apparently approves overy measuro of Btcrn repression which Russia's Lloyd George, Pro-mler Pro-mler Kerensky, Is Invoking. Today Kernesky stopped all leaves of absenco from tho front. Ho sent soldiers overywhero hunting down do-sorters do-sorters and splos. It was apparently at his suggestion that tho coolest scrutiny was given overyono of the eight hundred delegates who attond-od attond-od an all-Russian mooting of tho workmen's and soldiers' congress today. to-day. President Tscheldzo of tho meeting directed each dolegato to ox-nmlno ox-nmlno and approvo tho credentials of his neighbors. Meanwhllo tho people of Russia aro busy. I saw several speakers against war arrests or sovorely beaten beat-en by crowds on the Nevsky pros-pekt. pros-pekt. Ono "Jow-baltor" was seized and formally handed over to tho police. po-lice. Tho whole nation Is engaged In a gigantic man hunt tho man being Nlcholal Lenlne, tho pacifist agitator, now condemned by tho government as a paid Gorman agent. In almost every town In western Russia soldiers sol-diers and townspeople wero making a Iioubo to house Bearch for tho man who formerly swayod street audiences audi-ences in Petrograd. Steklov, Lellne's closest assoclato, was tho first fruit of this natlonwldo search. Ho was taken into custody In a Finnish town. Lenlne cvldontly realizes his porll, wherever he Is. Today's lssuo of Maxim Gorky's nowspapor printed a letter from Lenlne denying he was a German agent. "Wo want our cases to bo considered consid-ered by tho workmen's and soldier's congress," ho wrote. "If wo aro handed over to tho military It moans death for us and that would bo seer Drey-fuss-lsm." A delegation from Kronstadt arrived ar-rived today bearing a resolution of loyalty from that fortress to tho provisional pro-visional government. They asked that a board of Inquiry bo sent Kronstadt Kron-stadt to find out who was guilty In the recent Insurrectionist movo more. The- food situation In Petrograd was temporarily gravo today owing to great congestion on the railroads. m |