Peter and St. Paul_.
The commander demanded that the delegates disband. In reply it was
stated that the delegates would disband after they had finished
their business. Then at the order of the commander the sailors
took the delegate Ilyan, elected by the peasants of the Province
of Tambov, by the arm and dragged him to the exit. After Ilyan,
the sailors dragged out the peasant delegate from the Province of
Moscow, Bikov; then the sailors approached Maltzev, a peasant
delegate from the Province of Kostroma. He, however, shouted out
that he would rather be shot than to submit to such violence. His
courage appealed to the sailors and they stopped.
Now all the halls in the Tavrichesky Palace are locked and it is
impossible to meet there. The delegates who come to the
Tavrichesky Palace cannot even gather in the lobby, for as soon
as a group gathers, the armed hirelings of Lenine and Trotzky
disperse them. Thus, in former times, behaved the servants of the
Czar and the enemies of the people, policemen and gendarmes.
This is not the testimony of correspondents of bourgeois journals; it is
from a statement prepared at the time and signed by more than a hundred
Socialists, members of the oldest and largest Socialist party in Russia,
many of them men whose long and honorable service has endeared them to
their comrades in all lands.
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