7 SEPTEMBER 1918, Page 2

M. Lenin, the Bolshevik chief, was attacked in Moscow on

Friday last by two women Socialists. One of them, Dora Kaplan, fired on him and wounded him severely. M. Lenin was reported at first to have succumbed to his wounds. Later reports said that there was some chance of his recovery. We detest political assassinations, but we cannot affect any sympathy for the man who has deliberately betrayed and ruined Russia and who has waded through torrents of blood to establish a despotism more arbitrary and undemocratic than that of the Tsars. The only expressions of regret for M. Lenin come from the Germans who paid him and profited by his iniquities.