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Show Ifl j Lenine on Battleship anc Trotzky on Czar's Yacht. i j WASHINGTON. Aug. 26 Nearly al the Bolsheviki leaders nave left Pet rograd and Moscow and it is almosi 'impossible to see those who arc left I according to information reaching Lh( (state department today through Stock j holm from a man who left Pelrognu August 13, He reported Lenine, hc Bolsheviki premier, on a battleship al Kronstadt and Trotzky ab'uarci the for I mer Emperor Nicholas' yacht, a shorl distance below Petrograd. press but the department's informant said it was current when he left Pet regard. His message told also of n ' meeting held at Kronstadt in an en i deavor to get the soldiers there xc i agree to fight against the Czecho-Slo vaks. There were about 500 soldiers j present to hear an address by Trotz ky but it was intimated that most ol j them could not be persuaded to move against the Czechs-Several Czechs-Several arrests were reported made at Jaroslav in a counter rovolutionnr plot and the prisoners sent to Kron stadt only to be set free by the garrl son. As an example of the difficulty ol travel in eastern Siberia, the state de partmcnt made public today information informa-tion from Poking, reporting the arriv al there of an Englishman from Ir kutsk after twenty-two days on the road. He left Irkutsk July 21 and re ported that on that date the Czecho Slovaks were advancing very slowly east of Irkutsk because the railroad and bridges had been damaged by the Bolsheviki and German-Austrian pris oners. Two Americans arrived at Urga on August 7 having been forty days traveling trav-eling from Irkutsk. |