Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-01-29

to be, "What next after TrOtzkyg ---Wlln Czdr
Cyril +" thrown in for good measure.
The Russian situation has many compnca-
lions as crossword puzzle. At this writing Leon
Trotzky, the minister, may be alive or DEAD
in power prisoner or in .exile-press reports
from Russia agree only in emitting to say that ne
Is dead While the news from Russia IS utterly
unreliable because of a strict Soviet censorship,
1t Is presumably true that Trotzky is at outs with
the other Soviet leaders and is the center of what
appears to be cyclonic storm.
Grand Duke Cyril from his place of exile In
Coburg, Bavaria, has proclaimed himself Cyril l.
of all the Russas The Grand Duchess Cyril
has recently paid visit of more or less myster
GUS purpose-which may have been for publicity
only
The dowager empress of Russia-to give her
her fo,mer title--does not admit that Nicholas II
Us dead and denounces Cyril. Grand Duke Nich-
olas, uncle of Nicholas II and Oldest of the Roma
noffs supports her.
General Wrangel and the exiled remnants of his
anti-Bolshevik white Army" are loyal to the
claim of Grand Duke Nicholas to the Romanof
throne. Kerensky, also in exile is strongly
against Wrangel he Is against the Soviet gov
eminent
And finally, the Soviet government appears to
be having difficulty In holding down the peasants
and making them say they like the ruin and chaos
that everywhere prevails in Russia.
On the other hand, although the Soviet govern
ment may be having hard going in Russia, Europe
appears to be badly scared over Communist activ-
tiles outside Of Russia The British government,
for more than month"; has been working hard
in a campaign to organize crusade of great and
little powers, including the Vatican, against the
Communist activities for world revolution It
is frightened by the progress Of revolutionary prop
uganda in India, Egypt, Persia, Afghanistan and
Mesopotamia. The Communist International Of
Moscow retorted by ordering a general Bolshevik
uprising in the Balkans the second week of March
and the establishment of Soviet republics in AL
bania, Bessarabia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Galicia and
Macedonia. The British foreign office has brought
ABOUT a coalition of Rumania, Bulgaria and Yugo-
Siavia against Soviet Russia. The French have
also felt the scare and have turned and are CIV
ing support against Russia
AS to Russian chronology it will be remembered
that the World war broke out in 1914 with the dec
laration of war by Austria against Serbia, July
Is. Germany declared war against Russia August
1 because the latter had begun to mobilize it's
armies. September l. 1915, Gar Nicholas Ii took
ever the supreme command from Grand Duke Mich
oIas, his uncle March II, 1917 the Kerensky
riution was accomplished and Nicholas abdicated
September, 1917, Provisional President Kerensky
declared republic. November the Lenin coup at
Petrograd overthrow the Kerensky government and
established Communism. July 10, 1918, the Fifth
All-Russia congress adopted constitution. (The
congress of 1922 established the Union Of Social
list Soviet Republics under the Communist PartyO
February 10, 1918, Lenin and Trotzky announced
the surrender of Russia to the Central Powers
March g. 1922 the Russian Soviet Supreme court
executed Archbishop Zepliak. January q occurred
the death of Nikolai Lenin (Vladimir Hyitch Ul
anov) head of the Russian Communist party and
Soviet republics The United States has refused
to recognize the Soviet government The British
Labora government recognized it February ], 1924
"Czar Cyril T. is Grand Duke Cyril Wladimrc
Witch Grand Duchess Cyril is Victoria Feodor
ovna Her father was the Grand Duke Alfred of
e-Coburg- Gotha She is a granddaughter Of
Queen Victoria cousin of King George of Eng
land and sister of Queen Marie of Rumania
Her first husband was her first cousin, the grand