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Show iipflll HUNGER STRIKE Russian Peasant Leader Dangerously 111 in Cheka Hospital MOSCbfc Dec.' 31 (By Tho Associated Asso-ciated Prow). ?JarVc Spiridonova, tho Social Revolutionist leader, who broke jwith the Bols!ieik) over the Brest-.Litov.sk Brest-.Litov.sk tre.'tv, is dangerously ill in thej Cheka hospital as the result of n Imn-1 Imn-1 ger strike which lasted for 15 days and was brought to an end through forced f'-edim; I Spiridonova is the acknowledged leader oi" the Russian peasants. She 1 was b: nisle d to Siberia uniler the CZarlBt regime for bombing a provincial provin-cial official, but returned at the time of the revolution and was an import-unit import-unit factor In hading the peasants Into (the combination with workmen which made thef Bolshevist coup possible DBNOUPi IED LENINE. But the Breat-Lltovsk treaty was I too bitter a dose for her. She de-inounceri de-inounceri It In the fifth all-Russian sov- hed the peasants of food and clothing, she also denounced Ltnine's plan, i whereby he arrayed poor peasants ! against more prosperous ones, and 'said It wns putting a premium on shift lessniess. immediately after Spiridonova's sensational sen-sational denunciation of the Brest-Litovsk Brest-Litovsk treaty. Count Mlerbach, the German ambassador in Moscow, was murdered and the Social revolutionist uprising at Yarrosluv nnd otlicr out-breaks out-breaks against the Bolshevist auhnr-Ity auhnr-Ity took place. Spiridonova disappeared immediately immedi-ately after her inflammati ry speech in the fifth all-Russian soviet congress That was in early JmIv. 1918. Bolshevist Bolshe-vist leaders caused the report to be circulated that she was mentally unbalanced un-balanced nnd had been placed In B sanitarium U.IT 11 ED I N GIR1 UOt 1. She was confined for a time in a building in the Moscow Kremlin, but maiuged to escape, and was not heard! of for a long while The. Cheka discovered dis-covered her living quietly In an obscure ob-scure section of Moscow and she was again Imprisoned. After repeated attempts at-tempts to get released, Bpilidonov i 1 started the hunger strike which camel near ending her life. She his been afflicted with tuberculosis for years as1 a result C't her prison experiences un-j der the old regime. The lack of food aggravated her malady and It wall ncjpeasarf to move her to hospital! and administer nourishment forcibly. Spiridonova was a school teacher at the time sht became a terrorist and while still In her teens look up the defense of pastints against the op-' presslond t government officials and I landlords. She is now about 35 years Old nn |