27 JULY 1918, Page 3

The Bolsheviks announced last week that they had refused a

German proposal to send a German battalion to guard the Embassy at Moscow. "In no case," said the Bolshevik message, "could the Russian Government permit the presence of a foreign military detachment in Moscow." Two days later the semi-official Cologne Gazette announced that the German Government had arranged to send "some hundreds" of soldiers in civilian clothes to guard Dr. Helfferic.h, the new Ambassador. In this way M. Lenin, as the Chinese say, has "saved face," while, as usual, agreeing to the demands of his Imperial friend at Berlin.