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Show LEMINE HIDDEN M STACK Of HAY Bolshevik Premier Once Hunted by Agents With Police Dogs UkiA Latvia Jan . (By The A-, sociatofl Press). A -tory telling how XikolHl lxnlne. the Russian Bolshevik Bolshev-ik premier, hid In a haystack in a swamp noar I-trograd in July. 1917. and from that hMldQUattafS ilirctod Conmunlst acthitics h tiio Russian capltnl while agents of Premier KS- ! rensky, aidod by police 1okv. search- I c.u fvr ivn has just been officially t..lj Lepins finally i-scapeil to Kin j lano as a fireman of a locomot:- ajiO lived secretly for a time In the hrusc j of the chief of police of Hcl"lngforj. a Bolxhevlk sympathizer. Then he rc- turned to Pctrograd lo become Trols- 1 tarian cliclaior of Russia. WRITS s PROP . M V The story is told In th Moscow Pravda by A. Schotmann. Finnish Communist Who was delegated by the central committee of the soviet party to find Inlne a safer hiding place than the haystack. Sehotmuim writes that he visited Lenine in his haystack headquarters eitoh day carrying provisions and newspapers. Ienlne. he oay. occupied occu-pied himself in writing documents for world revolutionary propaganda and drawing up reolutloin to be adopted by tho CommunTst party congress whleh held frequent meetings in Pet- , rugrad. The (tollce chase was becoming hot ' and it wu.h decided to muve Ienlne to j off hi beard and mustnrhe and I bought a wig to hidr his bald had. : Schotmann arrang' d with a friend. ;'n (engineer, to gtvo him passage as fire- man on his locomotive. SMI's bv . RD. After a long march through the 1 swamps, they reached the railroad and ' lenine rolled up his sleeves and fed I firewood into the firebox whllo the1 ' o'ht-r members of the party travelled as passengers on th same train. At the latd Russian station on tho Pin- nish border, the quick-witted engineer j detached the locomotive and took It : behind the station to take In water, while the paacngem' passports were examined.' Jutt before the slgnsl for ' the train's departure, the locomotive returned and In 15 minutes lyenlne was Afe on Finnish soli. By the end of September, 1917. he was back in Petrograd personally directing di-recting the operation of the successful success-ful revolution In November of that ! |