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Show S11L1TB MEETJLD DEBT Bolshevik Agent Upsets Story That Lenine Has Been Killed in Moscow LONDON, June 15. Soviet Russia does not recognize its liability for dobts contracted by Russia up to November, No-vember, 1917. and If compelled to meet them will have various offsets, says the Times In reporting conversations conversa-tions between British ministers and Gregory ICrassln. Bolshevik minister for trade and commerce. M. Krassln is said to have intimated intimat-ed that should the sovio't government accept such liability, then the soviet government would Insist upon Inheriting Inherit-ing the rights and privileges secured by Russia' by former tredj-les. He laid especial emphasis, ltls declared, on tho convention of 1915 which awarded Constantinople to Russia. Dunles Lenine Report. CONSTANTINOPLE, Juno 14. Maxim Litvlnoff. assistant! commissary of foreign affairs in tho Russian Bol shevik government, today received telegrams from Leon Trotsky and Nikolai Nik-olai Lenine, respectively Bolshovlk minister of war and premier. This 'appears to dispose of rumors that Trotzky had been nvurderied and that Lenine had fled from Moscow. "As far as 1 remember." remarked M. Litvlnoff; 'this is only the eighth tlmo Trotzky has been murdered." Report of Outrages, i NEW YORK. June 1G. The Polish bureau of Information hero tonight ; announced tho receipt of a cable dated at Warsaw June l.V'sta'tinp that Bol-shovist Bol-shovist troops which cut the communication commu-nication with Kiev' botwoen Bcrdyc-zow Bcrdyc-zow and Zytornlerz, signalized their entrance Into the latter town by burning burn-ing a military hospital .ind killing 600 wounded soldiers. They also murdered mur-dered all the doctors and sisters of charity who remained behind to care for tho wounded, the cable said. Several conflicts havo taken place !at Luga near Potrograd during tho ; last few days, tho message added, bc-l bc-l tweon the red army and peasants who I havo organized the "green army." . nn |