V. I.

Lenin

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To:   P. B. AXELROD

7/XII. 00

Dear P. B., Forgive me for not replying to you in my letter to Bainova; ill health
interfered. But having consulted with V. I. I can see now that the
situation is very serious: we need the foreign news items, the first sheet
of the paper is already being printed, and the second is ready except for
the news items. [2] The length of the news column should be some

26,000 characters. [1]

At a pinch we can throw out something else.

In view of this, please send at once whatever you can. I shall
eagerly await your answer.

Address:

Herrn Georg Rittmeyer.
Kaiserstraße 53. o.
München (enclosure: für Meyer).

With best regards, Yours, Petroff

You must excuse my insistence. But what else can I do? I hope that you
will see to this as you did with the article on Liebknecht.