Dr. Dillon on the Ruslan.
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was disgusting and bad baricots bread. and potatoes, and not enough ever,
so that the children became wan
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orchards and ruin everywhere. The commandant before that wan
a good man and a gentleman..
afraid of God and his conscience.
He said, I do not approve of these things. The world will havə -
to obey orders, and I gave it right to call as barbarians. He asked forgiveneze because be had him.
RUSSIA'S AWAKENING." declare on the eye of the Japanese The atmosphere of war is, and farmy to sero. That was the real or, at any rate, stays off, more become a blazing toroh, and this war that an appeal to arms was will ever be, nozione to you and danger, and it became imminent desetio changes until after the priest, who loved it, had wapk excluded because he himself was yours. Keep clear of it. Once with the apocssion of I. Proto close of the war. The discontent tears as hot an ite flames, and in sincerely determined to seobew already you went to war, and you popoff to power. I have knowned popular masses still exist, and his heart was the fire of a great AUTOCRACY AND THE WAR hostilities, but which did not know what it cost you. But you Protopope and his kith and their lot is undoubtedly miser- agony.
prevent him from provoking the do not know what it cost your kindred for over a quarter of a sb'e. It will not be immediately Japanese to have recourse to war. people. To hundreds of thousands century, and when he was in bittered by a change, however
Cure's Tale of the Terror. The danger to the Rassian armies the war clarion that summoned Paris last year I noted that lie acessary and welcome, from man of the aristocratic type, He sat before me, s tall old from. the dissolution of the the Russian troops to attack the liberalium eclipsed that of his autceracy to conet'tational govern with a finely chiselled face, but The technical paper, the Paris, Marah 10.—The Journal, Zemstvo Usion was so obvince Japanese was the trump of doom, colleague, K. Milinkoff. Yet on mont. The worst feature of the thio and gaunt, and as esllow as Chemicher Zeitung ("Chemical that one is puzzled to understand and it was you who sounded it. his return to Ruseis be changed a stocratic system was the bureau- though he bad been raised from Gazette") published in its isso Dr. E. J. Dillon contributes how say reasonable man could That was's grievous ain, which in a twinkling, and became the cracy, and that still remaine, and the dead. If I could pat own his of November 18 the following the following to the Daily seek to realise it and yet par God has visited upon you and most ardent apostle of autocracy. mast remain, at least until the words as he spoke them to me Telegraph from Paris:- suade that he was working bard your family. Your wife and son | Thoas
ording to the published for victory against the Central were severely tried by tedious, intimately explained bia condust and even then it will be difficult Freach, with gestures of those Eckbolsheim-Strassburg. On
who know him most Administration is decentralised, with passion in his clear, vivid narratives, "which are strangely Empires.
Thermochemiche." and dangerous illness, sad it is as the consequence of the general t› find substitutes for the army transparent hands which gave a account of the departure of our confused, the Russian Parlia- It is fair to recoguing that the only now that they are slowly paralysia from which they say be of employees. Therefore, the new deeper meaning to his words, it manager, we require sa engineer, mentarians have succeeded in Zemstro Usion was incompatible regaining health. If you go to is suffering. However this my Government and its patriotic but would be a grand story, revealing free from military obligations, to attaining ideal ends by ideal with the maintenance of the war again prepare to lose them be, big behaviour towards his inexperienced members deserve the agony of the French people technically and means. Apparently no revela autocracy, and the Taar bad both, and roat Throne as well. colleagura and the Dama has been the fullest sympathy and help of behind the German lines. For direct our tion on record, not even that of consistently shown
commercially himself ls that what you want? If not, outrageous, and the Emperor, the Allies in the discharge of the story of this village of Vayea destraction of dead bodies. " the Young Turks, afforded such a resolved to uphold the autocracy with Austria, Lead your people dent of the Dama of bearings ask of reorganising an Empire of on the enemy's side of the barbed no doubt respecting the nature of
then be moderate in your dealings who was informed by the Presi- their arduous and responsible nes is just that of all the villages
factory" for striking example of moderation.almoet at all costs. Yet, in wisdom, and the higher graces of October, 1904 be bad consciously along the path of peace and order, of M. Protopopoff's condect, paid one hundred and seventy millions wira.
The name of the factory leaves humanity as that which our great renounced absolute power, and deserve their gratitude, and Gods a graceful tribute of praise to the ia war time, through the instru Sla Ally has moet successfully when he remarked to Count favour.
the work purried on in this thermo- Duma but upheld M. Potopopoff mentality of a hostile bureaucracy
Here in a few little streets chemical factory. That is to psy, accomplished. And Western Witte, "I will be difficult to
That advice was daly followed. and refused to accept his resigns and under the supervision of about an old church were the it is not solely destruction by nations know to their cost that harmonise your proposal with It was the first instance reorded tion. This Imperial resolve was seething masses who expect to be bodily suffering, the spiritual heat, but it also comprises the these are by no means invariable the satocratic form of govern Rapatin infencing the Em- pablic communication to the lind overwing with milk and fight against despair, the brood- of the dead bodies. The statement in the secret Court memoire of expressed in the Monarch's last immediately let into a promised torture, the patient courage, the chemical treatment and utilisation characteristics of far-reaching meat," Conat Witte answered: political violence, however wisely "The two are quite incompatible, peror in matters of international Premier, Prince Galitsin. In housy.
ing but hidden fears, which have made by the American Consol, thecry may attempt to set bounds aire. The beginning of the new moment. Theretofore he had that dccament respect, digaity,
been the life over a great tract of who left Germany at the same to it in advance. Until farther Constitution is the end of auto-fined himself to ecclesiastical consideration were enjoined upan
France since August 1914, “For time as Mr. Gerard, in the Las data are laid before the public cracy." At that time, however, interests and persons. It was the Minister in his dealings with which can reasonably be regarded the Tear had some clever reac- not until after the outbreak of the Dama, and without more ado
my people bere have had not a fully confirme this opinion. The a year," said M. la Cais Caron, sanne Gazette on February 28, as coberent and trustworthy ons tionary advisere, who held that the present war that the Siberian the entire Enterte Press declared
morsel of meat and not a drop of enemy is reduced to extremities would do well to reserve opinion the Russian people had shown peasant took to playing a more that the Emperor had accomplish-
wine, and only bad water in in as to the full significance of the themselves anripe for Parlis important role in public affaire.ed the long-wished-for mireole,
order to obtain explosives, which the Germans put their which are more necessary for him historic move and its bearings on mentary government, and that Interesting as characteristic of and, by his gracions attirade Cure's Story of German Slavery,ith They gave us bread which at the present moment even than the European rituation. Iss at cautions and gradual return to the ex-Tear's paychology and of towards the Legislature, bad close quarters the incipient autocracy was possible.
the ease with which he pereusded solved the crucial problem of revolution of 1905 6, which, un-
himself that everything he did internal policy. Nobody sppeared der competent leadership, might That was the aim and object of and warranted by eiraumstances about the praiseworthy efforts of Daily Chronicle from Head qus footstufis, but the Germans took was hallowed by the best motives to have noticed the brief phrase. Mr. Philip Gibba writes to the sad the women weak. · The sasily have been brought to a the intercal policy followed ever is the following incident, for the the Z mstvos, whose supplies for tera se followe successful issue, and am aware since. It was becoming more and truth of which I vouch. As the army would is fatura bel that the whole intellectual tem- more difficult every year, owing recently as the beginning of 1914 despatched to their destination by have gone again through & num-were always hungry.
Sunday, March 25-To-day T the best of them, sad in any caRD perature of the Russian people bas undergons since then a vast and Duma, and in the summer of about the Japanese campsigo, harmless-looking
to the increasing power of the Nicholas IL, talking frankly the Governors. Yet these ferber of the rained villages which "Bat those things do not permanent improvement. Bat 1914 & revolation was on the when the passions of 170,000,000 point of bresking out.
Con- were liberated just a week ago matter, those physical things. It asid: "That was indeed people are set ablaze unforeseen Central Empires confidently ex- and a downright disaster. Who
anat'tited a challenge to the Russian from German rule.
was the suffering of the spirit that overwhelming piece of ill-lack people.
Across our front line trenches mattered, and, occurrences often mock the most pected it, and, indeed, counted is to blame for it? Everybody, which had been growing ever near the narrow strip of ground it almost made us silly, so that experienced sistesman's foresight oo it. But the patriotic ardoor
Populer irritation in Petrograd through the barbed wire, and suffered mentally so much that
almost destroyed our intelligence, and twist his best-laid plan into a of the Russian people repressed, to some extent, I dare eay, but since the fall of Warsaw, WHE
which was No Man's Land until grim travesty. To those who are without suppressing, every otter am the least blameworthy of all, intensified by the widespread
reason, for you will understand last Monday one
even now we can hardly think or conversant with current Kussin aspiration for the time being. In the conduct of all public basi- ¦ was so expensive and rare that civilians have lived since the bat it meant to us French all the bells of the churobes and
for I strove hard to stave it off." affaire, it has long been self-evid-whereupon the nation's saergies rese, domestic
distress. Food was scarce, cord
"An order came to take away ent that the systematic endeavours were thrown wholly into the war. Nicholas IL frequently nadid with bread in vain for forty-eight moved from the life of their own Germans came in and settled I showed them to bim, and said, made by the reactionaries 10 That, bowever, lasted only a few
and foreigo, former domestica of line ecaght beginning of the war, as far re
people.
all the metal work. I had slready "return to autocratic methods of months under the Premiership of /one hand what he had done with hours. In the depth of winter/nation as though dwelling in a down upon us, and said, We There they ara. He was very "We were slaven after the put my church bellain a loft, and government must lead to a de- the octogenarien M. Goremskip, conscions of contradiction, and children are reduced to wear through all the stages of hunger and punished them with prison and it was because he had been
the other hand, seemingly a wretched Cisive trial of the issues between who est himself to employ the unaware of the evil consequences. clogs, while the lower middle
other planet, cut off from all new? and WOMAN, the partisans of absolutism and war opportunities for the purpose The extent to which the public classes pay fifty roubles (about to starvation, and enslaved by the for any slight fault. They were fifteen years in Americs and had of the progress of victory, passing They ordered on men to work, good Germen officer I have met," are at home; all here is ours. sorry. This man was the only the adherents of Parliamentariem. of in ensibly leading the Russian interests were endangered by this 25) for common leather boots. In enemy of theis people. They are The Liberals in the Dama, to peoples back to the condition of well-meant variety of methods is the city of Orel there were two now free, and to-day being the the masters of our women, they married an American wife and es- matters Battled peaceably, and, if Progressive circles in the country first hand knowledge, but with communications as a consequence they had brought out French soldiers, they set themselves out try's philosophy. Then he went their credit, were BDX'ous to bave things in the pre-Dama daye.not yet realised. I write with breadless days a week. Lack of rst Sanday of their liberation. Put our young girls among their caped from the spell of his coun- initiative; bat settled they must for the purpose of democratieing possible, by the Emperor's own intent on utilising the ocession due consideration for the "infer- of the disorganisation is one of the flags and the tricolour waved over deliberately at firat to crush car 88Y.. be at all costs in the interests of the regime, offered strenuous este of public policy." German- principal causes of these priva- the ruins of many villages, on the spirit, to beat us by terror, so the nation, which take precedence Parliamentary opposition to the phil tendencies of those of the most exsited in- Premier, whereapon the Tear, characterise a large section of the formed is procession and pro-
undoubtedly tions. At last thousands of women beams of roofless houses and subdue as to their will by an iron rule. They failed and they were desirous of placating the Dams, Bassian reactionaries, and the tested against the reprehensible The Work of the Zemstvos. dismissed M. Geremy kin, but can be traced to the Imperisi negligence of the authorities, ach built at the entrance of the stand you people,' they esid; this very boare, when the people
I passed through a triomphal astonished. We cannot under
"Last Sunday, a week ago, at For the bureaucracy from which appointed & much more obaczi favoured by logical champions ofed the Fremier to prorogue the places where the Germans had
palace. The political formals whereupon the Emperor authories little town of Nesis, and at other you are so proud, you women are were all in their houses ander autocracy derived its
main ous reactionary and curtier to the movement is a Three-Kaiser Dame until April and, it was
ao proud.'
strfet orders, and already the girength bad failed to stand the succeed him.
blown up winea at the cross-roade And that was true, eir. Some country was on fire with boraing searching test applied by the I have known M. Stormer for Alliance, based on respect for feared, until the end of the war.nd bridges, saw bow groups of woman, not worthy of the name villagee, a group of soldiers come European war, It was deficient thirty years, and always con- monarchical, and the Emperor That measure was answered fold men and women, dressed in was inevitable, alas 1-but for the leam, which they patinto charob. French soldiers gathered round of French women, were weak it outside there with caps of petro- in organisation and in organising sidered him, intellectually and bas always been a consistent capacity. The Tear's armies at morally, a poor creature, whose stickler for monarchical author
Sanday clothes saved op from the most part, they raised their heads Then they eet fire to it, and the various fronts had to be highest ideal was a euccessfulty, and very accessible to the
days before the war, listening to and said. 'We are French, we watched my church bara in a content with inadequate and fitful career, and whose borizon sa specious arguments by which
Attitude of the Army. the tale of the sufferinge which will never give in to you, not great bonfire. At this very hour supplies or nose at all. The circumscribed by the walls of his it up were defended by Kaiser Ministers would seem to have and white and these old men so
Germany's methods of propping But neither the Tear nor his had made these women so thin after one year, or two years, or a week ago I watched it bern. commissariat and sanitary ar- Ministry, That he had treason-Wilhelm. On the other hand, realised how thorough is the weak, except in courage.
three years, or four years, rangements, too, were deplorable. «ble dealings with the Germans
"The Germans saked öon- The wounded on their way to the and Austrians, as his enemies he was a zealous champion of a transformation that the Army bas
stantly. When do you think the to the front were badly fed and believe, but it cannot be gainsaid militariam. Yet he failed to see The officers' corps is being entirely far from Ham, and one of the few end we will smash you, and this in. They were English soldiers, rear and the soldiers on their way asserted or insinuated, I do not ar to the finish against Tenton undergone since the war began.
War will end?' We answered, indifferently cared for. In a word, that certain of his trusted agents that the two sims were incom- | r+juvensted, and its present hamlets not utterly destroyed, made them very angry, so our and our people rushed out to
the work of providing the like Manniief, wore capable of patible with each other. Many members are nearly all permeated because troops with necessaries had been any enormity. M. Starmer's of the politicians by whom he was with modern ideae. Yet this was district
the people of the people went about with their them. Boon left to the Government the armies fanction was to purge the Go-surrounded, displaying more con- long since known
were herded here heads up, scornful, refusing to some Chasseurs d'Afrique and afterwarde cóme would have been unable to carry vernment of the few liberal-latency, frankly advocated a watchful observer. The nobility burst, I went into the ruins of any hardship.
every while their own booses were being complain against any severity or the Colonel gave me the news of on the fight for long, and Russia minded Ministers it contained, separate peace with Germany in too, makes common cause with the church. It was easy to see would already bave ceased to and he accordingly got rid of M. order to binder the outbreak of a the people, and even the Orthodox how the flames had licked about was different. We could get no ondong after
the outer world to which we now count as a belligerent. It was Sazonoff and the War Minister,volution.
Beoretly among ourselves it belong after our years of iaclation Waether M. Stor Church, which has never been its old stoner, scorching them red, news for months except lies. We the Zemstvar, or county councils, General Polivanoff. Like moet met at the number is one more than a department of Bite and how the high oak roof bad knew nothing of what was hap and municipalities which, joining reactionaries, M. Sturmer felt certain, but there is no doubs has uplifted its voice against the come blazing down before the pening, starvation crept closer hands, built up the most compact drawn towards Germany as the that he favoured or connived at appointment of unworthy pre-walls and pillars had given way. upon at. We were surrounded organisation Russis Свя ever most autocratie State in Europe, acts which tended towards a
lates to the bighest ecclesiastical Everything had been licked down by the free of hell. As you possented, and went far to solve through
operation relaxation of the national effort dignities the most comments by flame except one figures on an see, we are in the outer section all the various pressing problems. Russian Tarism of the absolutist "gainst the pablio enemies, 500, who are the most conservative ancalcined fragment of wall of the grest Somme battle line, While this powerful organisation type might one day be restored to
of xcts, declared in Congres that Galy one hand of the Christ there and very close to it. For 50 was thus giving brilliant proofs ite ancient vigcur. This view in
More serious was the petition Russia, could be saved only by had been burned, and the body hours at a time the of its capacity and patriotiem the still held by many Rassisas, sad sent to the Tear by prominent enjoy the confidence of the nation. hanging on the cross was un-of guns swept roande us week
Government whoas membere Imperial Government objected to the Berlin Press recently made members of the reactionary group, its existence on the ground that it insistent overtures to the Tear's arguing that the war should be The garrison of Petrograd, when Calvaries which I have seen in month, and the sky blazed around scathed, like so many of those after week, and month after was sequiring a vast influence | Government Od this which it was using in favour of Basputin himself, with whom I taken over by the revolutioniele. the Dams, and the revelation touched by shell fire, for it had
basis. concluded before its fraits can be ordered out against the workmen, shell fired places.
fraternised with them and obeyed constitutionalism,
Bat this place had not been they was personally acquainted, felt The terribly destructive fire in ordered that the union be diso special admiration for Ger- Archangel and the artificially
therenpon began.~ selved, and that each Zematro many, which he neither appreciar famented troubles in the principal
been far beyond the range of What is certain is that Ruesia French or British guns; it had of the German cfacere after the soldiers have bad food and not. hand over to the governor of the ed nor knew," but he simply be monition worke were further was indeed ready for revolution. been destroyed wilfully in rage, defeat on the Marne, and after enough of it, and their people are province the supplies it might lieved that any European war symptoms of the remissness of All the elements were gathered The village around had been the battles of the Simme Ger- starving as we starved the manage to get together. This would prove fatel to Taarism, and the authorities during M. Stur- together, all the explosive gas spared because of the large many was like a wounded siger, German officers behaved to their messure would have dealt a for that reason he diesanded the mer's tenure of fire. But in the were concentrated for a thorough number of people driven into it ferse, desperate, cruel. Secretly men with their usual brasileir death-blow to the Russian army. Emperor from provoking hostil danger of Russia's making a se apheval, social and political, fom the neighbooring country though our people kept brave have seen them beat the le The Emperor highly appreciated ities during the former Bilkan parate peace with Germany But what the telegrama tell us side, and when I called upon the toes, they feared what would about the head while those in the work done by the united ariais.
bave never believed, because I has cow happened is hardly more priest who live opposite the main bappen if the Germans were stood as attention, not daring, ta Zemetros, but staunchly opheld Ministers &ho insisted on dia At an interview during one of the war Eneris cessed so ba per-political brees sufficient to curl God and the people of his little At last that happened, and officers are out of the way the men solving the anion that made such the most critical days Baaputin, sonified by either the Tair or bis the surface of walce not the parish, I heard the story of its after all we had endured the days my. We will cat the
asy a word, but as soon as the work possible, and while pro who addressed the Tear and Government and that the Dams typhoon wind of elemental fury barning, claiming his firm resolve to carry Teariten as familiarly as brother and the nation in arms would which commingles sky and ocean
S of terror wize hard to bear. From shrosta after the war. We have on the war to the finish, was might address brother, using the precante the war to the end, in one chaotic, welier. The new sit to-day in a room of the French one, people were driven out, will make them parl
It was a queer thing to me to all the villages around, one by been deceived! After the dat oring the institutions with prononas "thou" and "thee, Bat I saw reason to apprehend order will satiety intellectuale, presbytery talking to the old Cure, young women and men, se old as pe oʻk which the struggle could not maid to the Emperor i
that if the usion of Zamaros were and one hopes that the intellec-Jast week before, on Sunday, 66 were taken away to work for a the Curs talked to me, sud coutinured for three month Thee heed what you do, for, permanently disclred the in- tusla in torn will contrive to at the very hours of my visit,
ésime mental attitude onos done, it will be irrevocable, e gaity of the bursuersey would render them acceptable to the wake
To the Tear to anditsconsequences irremediable, reduce the fighting porn of the common people, and will obrino, church ouaid, thinde
anki” bidday, that old
dividual.
and
whose
Rasputin's Advice.
Reactionary Plaas.
the workmen atriking, and this again brought in the troops.
to
knew that wires the ontbresk of than a mere coup d'etat,
barnt-out barns,
A Destroyed Church.
British Horsemen Arrive
"That night the Ger pand wonÁTM early in the morning, up in my away through Voyennes, sed attic looking through a pair of
La the village of Voyennes, not Perhape in five years, but in the glasses I saw four horsemen ride
DS,
Foar
"Like a Wound:d Tiger.". "We were afraid of the temper
a of the church, where he served to reires
Germans knew they were beaten "Our agony bas ended, The
battles of the Somme the men monsieur; & commandant of Ham said, 'We are beat. After the groaned and wept when they were at off to the front. God,' they English gunfire: oh Obrist cried, the horror of the French
and
R
•
"Daring the battles of the Same the wounded poured back,
a thousand or more a day, and Ham was one great hospital of bleeding floch. The Gaiman
have on
only giv
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