The Russian Constituent Assembly met on Friday week, but as
the Revolutionary Socialists proved to be in a majority of two to one, the Anarchists forcibly closed the sitting and proclaimed the Assembly at an end. The meeting was preceded by a massacre of Revolutionary Socialists in the streets by armed workmen and sailors. It was followed, last Saturday night, by the brutal murder of two of the Constitutional Democratic leaders, M. Shingaroff and
Kokoshkin, who were lying ill in hospital after their release from prison. The Anarchists who murdered these sick men have been denounced by their leaders. One of them has been arrested. M. Lenin, in dissolving the only body that has any title to represent the Russian democracy, has shown once for all that he is no democrat. Anarchy and autocracy are closely allied, and there can be no sympathy among sane Englishmen for either.
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