San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-28

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Moscow, March 2S.-The latest
bulletin concerning Premier Lenins
health causes much disappointment
here.
The foregoing dispatch from Mr..
Mckenzie may be very significant. Its
brevity is taken to indicate either
that it was closely censored by the
Soviet authorities or that Mr.. Nc
Kenzie intended TO intimate what he
did not dare TO say outright--that
Lenin was either dead or that the end
was near.
The Associated Press reported Tues
day night that attending physicians
indicated that no change had taken
place in Lenin's condition during the
period from March % TO Monday.
His temperature on Monday morn
ing, it was -S.orted, rose 20 1904 de
grees, nearly two degrees above nor.
nal.
AT that time the patients pulse
was los and respiration 80, both CON
sidcr,d above normal.
Throughout almost his whole life a
fugitive from justice, forced TO dodge
furtively from one end of Europe TO
the other pursued by secret police.
Nikolai Lenin found himself after
the World war cataclysm dictator of
the worlds greatest domain, arbiter of
the lives and deaths OF 200,000.0O0
people. and force feared by every
world power.
Even the name Nikolai Lenin is a
relic of the days when he was want
ed by the police. For he invented ii
TO mask his real identity when there
was a price on his head.
Vladimir Ilyitch Clianoff--that is
the real name Of the Russian premier
was born April 10. 1870. in a small
village in the government Of Simbirsk.
His father was of peasant stock
a pure Russian-but he had been ele-
waited TO the nobility through official
appointment. He was an inspector OF
schools.
Young Ulianoff attended the Sim
brisk gymnasium, or high school,
where his preceptor was Feodor ker-
ensky. father of the Kerensky who
was head of the Russian government
in the period between the cars fall
and the accession of the Bolsheviki.
Revolutionary at IL.
When Ulianoff was only II his
Oldest brother, Alexander, was execut-
ed following his conviction of con-
spiracy to assassinate Gar Alexander
III.
From that day Ulianoff was an ar
dent revolutionary. He swore 10 de-
vote his life to destroying the regime
which he regarded as his brother s
murderer.
Having been graduated from the
gymnasium. the young man went to
the University OF Kazan. But he soon
was, expelled for having engaged IN
revolutionary activities.
At 81 he took up law at the Uni
versity of st. Petersburg. He OBJ
tanned a degree but dropped practice
after having pleaded one case. He re-
solved to devote his time TO instruct
ing workmen in politics and economics.
Exiled but Undaunted.
In 1897 he organized revolution
airy association called the Union for
the Liberation of the. Artisan Class.
The cars agents straightway arrest
ed him and he was exiled TO. Siberia.
Ev. there his revolutionary activ-
tiles could not be stopped. He wrote
books and pamphlets which were
spirited back to the industrial cen
tiers. 1t was in Siberia that he adopt
ed "Lenin" as an alias.
His term Of exile over, Lenin left
Russia and Travelled about Europe
He edited communist publications in
Munich. Brussels, Paris, London and
Geneva.
!. Meanwhile he studied. translated
and wrote books and propaganda
He was continually in touch with the
Russian revolutionary party.
When this party split in 1908 Lee
min became head of one faction which
took the name of bolsheyiki.
. q. Back to Russia.
Wien the cars government began
to totter in 1917, Lenin and 100
other revolutionary leaders were per
mitted to, enter Russia through Ger
man territory.
The revolution which overthrow
the Kerensky regime and placed lie
nine in power then came.
As young student Lenin had
married Nazheda kruspskaia. She was
his faithful aid in oil his revolution
airy work and was with him continu
ally in exile.
Today she is peoples commissar fol
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