The Bolshevik despots in Moscow last week arrested the British
Agent, Mr. Lockhart, and the British and French Consuls, but have since released them. The Bolsheviks alleged that this arbitrary measure was a reply to the Allied occupation of Mur- mansk and Archangel. Despite the Bolshevik stories of victory over the Czecho-Slovaks on the Volga front, Moscow itself seems 'to have become unsafe for M. Lenin and M. Trotsky. Dr. Helfferich, the new German Ambassador to Russia, has removed the Embassy from Moscow to Pskoff, on the Livonian border, on the ground that no German official is safe in Mosoow or Petrograd. The German semi- official Wolff Agency, which sometimes tells the truth, reports that the Bolshevik chiefs have fled to Kronstadt. It is apparent that the unrest in Russia is rapidly increasing, and the Germans profess great alarm at the new situation. We discuss the matter elsewhere.
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