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1925. Mme. Kerensky divorced her husband charging desertion. Soon he founded the newspaper Dni at Paris.

*He edits at Paris the newspaper Dni, organ of the anti-Soviet Russian emigres.

†Menshe, of course, means "lesser," and bolshe "larger." But the Mensheviki were at this time stronger politically than the Bolsheviki because they were allied with other moderate factions, while the more radical Bolsheviki were constantly weakened by expulsion of their best leaders from Russia by the Tsar's police.

**Changed from St. Petersburg to Petrograd in 1914, to Leningrad in 1920.

*Admiral Alexander Kolchak's regimental commander. Theodore Volkov, 74, was sentenced to death by Soviet authorities for his atrocities during the "White Terror," and shot last week at Ekaterinburg (scene of the Tsar's execution) now called Sverdlovsk

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