Notes

Leon Trotzky, Soviet War Lord, continued his campaign against invasion by the U. S. (TIME, April 28, et seq.). He inaugurated a new national campaign for the development of poison gas for defense.

In Paris, Mlle. Marie Gregoriovna Rasputin, daughter of the notorious monk who was killed by Prince Felix Yusupov (TIME, Dec. 3), said she was about to take up professional dancing, was planning to sell her father's memoirs.

At Moscow, 10,000 Bolshevik children assembled before the jet black tomb of Lenin to take the "pledge of Leninism" or, in other words, to promise to support the dead Russian leader's principles. MM. Rykov, Trotzky, Kamenev, Bukharin--all Bolshecrats--spoke to the children. When War Lord Trotzky asked them if they were ready to sustain the doctrines, they replied: "We are always ready!"

An automobile returning from Pskov to Leningrad (Petrograd) overturned. Isadora Duncan, dancer, escaped death by millimetres.

Large deposits of gold were reported to have been found in Siberia. The Soviet Government sent out a technical commission to verify the news.

Captain Sourov, aide to Admiral Kolchak who tried in 1920 to wrest Sovietland from the Bolsheviki, was sentenced to death. He said he was sorry, promised to become a "100%" Bolshevik. It made no difference, amnesty was refused, he was shot.

The stream of pilgrims visiting Lenin's tomb in Moscow was halted by order of the Government. It was observed through the glass lid of the coffin that the mortal remains of the Bolshevik leader were decomposing, despite the fact that they had been carefully embalmed. The body is not likely to be again exhibited.