The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-10-08
Lenine, Dictator of Reds,
Is Cast Into Prison
Serious Revolt Has Broken
Out in MoscoW--BolShevik
Turn on Leader.
SENT TO ARREST TROTZKY
Climax of Changing Fortunes
of Radical Russians Seen
in Uprising.

London, Oct. 8.-Serious rev.
olution has broken out at Mos
COW, and Nicholai Lenine, the
bolshevik premier and dictator,
has been cast into prison, ac-
cording to an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Helsingfors
today.
A reign of terror at Moscow
was reported by the Exchange
Telegraph correspondent at Re-
val. Peters, the chief agent of
the bolsheviki chiefs, who had
signed away the lives Of thou
sands of suspected bourgeois, is
said to have been killed.
Arrested Lenine Instead.
| News of the uprising was received
in Helsingfors from Moscow by wire-
, less. According to this version Le-
! nine had ordered the arrest of Trotz-
/ Ky. the red minister of war. but In
stead of oheying the order the SOL
! diers arrested Lenine himself.
Lenina and Trotzky have been In
! power. with headquarters first in Pc
| trograd and later at Moscow, since
September. W. after the overthrow
| of the KerenSH government. Lenine
was in exile in Switzerland when thf
imperial Russian government was
overturned, but shortly after the re-
publican government was set up the
! German government gave him and a
E..a
that country en- route for Petrograd
in n sealed train" Soon afterwards
trouble began to develop in Russia.
The first serious counter uprising
came in July. 1917. A few months
later the radicals seized complete
control, and since then have been en-
gagged in constant warfare with the
Poles. Esthonians, Firms, Let's.
Ukrainians and the allies in Siberia
end northern Russia.
White Armies Succeed.
Continuous successes have been
| reported for the white" armies in
Issussiny ,d,iring thef past few days,
ADMIRAL iKolchaks forces are ad-
vancing eastward along the Ural
mountain front and Gen. Denikine's
troops are driving northward from
the Black sea district.
| ... Denlklne captures wy
London, Oct. 8.--The capture OF the
city of Voronezh, 275 miles southeast
of Moscow, by the antibolshevik
forces of Gen Denikine Is admitted
in a Russian soviet wireless message
from Moscow received today. Gen.
Denkine's cavalry Is advancing on
Usman. thrty-ive miles north Of
Voronezh, the message adds.
l
A message from Gen. Denikine's
headquarters received Oct. 7, reported
the capture of $1,000 bolsheviN dur
Ing operations around Voronezh" but
did not definitely announce the cap
ture of that city. VoroneZh Is on a
line about 125 miles east of Orel.
toward which latter important. cnter
in old Russia, Gen Denikine's troops
were recently reported rapidly ad-
| vancing. The late adyices from the
Denikine forces indicate they are
moving ahead against Moscow on a
! front at least 200 miles in width and
probably considerably greater.
Petiura Declared War.
London, Oct. S.--Conftrmation oi
recent reports that Gen. Simon Pet-
lura, the Ukrainian military leader
had declared war on Gen. Denikine
| the IOSSaCk dnllbOlSHSNlh Soiiiiiie'h-
der in south Russia, was given today
by the Ukrainan diplomatic mission
in London.
!. The mission stated 1t had received
an official telegram from Kamenetz-
Podolsk making this announment.
The dispatch stated the efforts Of
the Ukrainian government to avoid
o conflict had failed and that the
Ukrainian population had enthusias-
tically received the declaration of
war.