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THE TSAR'S PRISON LIFE.

CONFINED TO THREE ROOMS AT HIS PALACE.

THE PIRACY BY NIGHT.

One-thirty o'clock on a belated winter's morning. Colder and more wegbedred than it had been at midnight. The waters of the harbour were being whipped to frenzy in the darkness by a viciously Mr. Herbert Baily, the Petrograd driving alpety rain. A good time enough correspondent of the Daily Express,

for those in warm beds, but no sort of a wrote an April 1stky Polare,

night for seafaring, or for lying out on |~ According to the Rusaky Volyn, the ex- the plains of Picardy, say, trying to get | Tear and Tearina, have been forbidden shelter out of a water-logged, shraps to communicate with each other or with sprayed shell crater.

their fellow-prisoners except in the pro ence of the officers of their guard.

Suddenly, the line of watchers at the quay-head, their cunts all gleaming, jumped into life and unimation; for, from around the end of the long jetty appeared a mast-head light.

Here they are, at last God, how cold and wet they'll be

A second light followed the first, and, handled as though they were rubber-tyred perambulators on a foot-path, two of His Majesty's destroyers were laid gently alongside the stage, their sides just kiss ing the great rope fenders. The whole operation had been performed in perfect silence;

ce; but in that dramatic bad been performed in perfect silence, but in that dramatic instant of soundless contact with the wharf-side lenders; full throated shout rent the rain swept air from the deck of the first destroyer

Three cheers for the Humming Bird and the Whipsnake!"*

The ex-Tsar is confined to three rooms in the palace it Tsarsino Seloo under stricter surveillance, and his guard has been inercaged. His menu, which until now bad been abundant and varied, is now subject to certain restrictions.

These new restrictions on the liberty of the ex-Tear und Tsarina are the direct result of an attempt by nimbers of the ex-Tsar's suite to communicate surrepti tionsly with the outside world. It is stated that letters have been passed out

Of

the palace through the agency of a an named Kotebu: One of these letters. fell into the hands of an officer, who handed it to Gonetal Korailoff, the rom- mandant of the Petrograd district, a

In this letter, which was addressed to man named Shuvalot, Count Benck- Fenorff instructed an agent to sell all his bitates and those of Prince Dolgorukoff, and transfer the money to American tanks He also desired to know when the next courier left for abroad and requested Kotsebn nt that he should call on Thurskoe Seloe to receive certain docu ment

For a full minute the thunder of cheer ing rolled out into the night, a very moving sound. compact of vivid and varied emotions, and contributed to hy men who a day or two earlier had been fighting under the scream of our own, and onemy" shells, and forcing their way Kotsehu was arrested, and M. Kerensky, through knee-deep mid and tangles of the Minister of Justice, gave instructione German barbed wire in the inferno for the new measures against the ex-Tsar, between Viray Ridge and Arras - There - The Busshy Vulgu states that the ex- they had been wounded, and passed out Imperial Family do not.

pparently for rest und treatment in Blighty. But realize the bopelessness of their position. since then, all taurined and helpless, they This ex-Tsar, it is slated, received the had been suddenly called on to face the officers who came to inform him of the Boche" again; and in his vilest and most new condition, under which he was to murderous guise. Yes, the sum of the live in future in his usual happy and cheering was moving its component puts cordial mansur, shook hands with them, singularly varied. For a full miunte the and, inquired when the next change of cheering rose and fell athwart the driv-| guard would take place. The ex Tearina, ing rain, and then the Zanetting Bird on the other hand, was very agitated, but made answer with une long, heree lilnst | according to the Russky Volya, showed from her syren-full of defiance, and |- undisguised, sentemeż, for the national. somehow, as it seemed to our cars, of army. good British cheer.

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UNHAPPY THIN FOLKS.

One of the readers of a pupuist nesith journal wrote to the editor, anking why she was seevish, blue and discontented, and his answer will

interests all thin people

The, too, you realize that the pro

per distribution of fat on the body and. limbs makes all the difference between beauty, and ugliness, and you savy your plump friends. As a liberal allowance of fat is one of nature's wise precautions to enable us to bear some of the trials of

Then they began to conie mahore, a long, stiffly-moving file of shaky, utterly weary goals, wrapped about as to their heads, or arms, necks or shoulders, with rain-and-brine-soaked surgical bandages.

Mr. Castelberg, Mr. M. J. Patall, Mr. My dear reader," he said, "when Few had had any sleep for several nights; AH Ryves, Mr. and Mrs. Struye, Mr you write that you are thin and do not all were new-plucked from the mid-most. Barriers, Mr. A. F. Smith Mr. C. S. weigh what you should, you have given jaws of death among the shell-holes, and Williams, Mr. D. Angler, Mr. Crow, me the real cause of your unhappy feel- --all had faced the Bosh, again, at his Mr. H. F. B. Churchill, Mr. J. Hings. If you only had a reserve of fat ugliest, since Ieving France. The Russell, Mr. Downie, Mr. R. D. Wood, this would give a quieting and reassuring fatigue in their eyes, which to man may r L Pyne, Mr. and Mrs. Prentis influence to the vital forces, and you hide in such a case, was pathetic, but Mr. E. W. Cheeseman, Mrs. Ellis, Mr would then be happy, contented and There was a look in the same and Mrs. Lipp

opsimistic over-rode anything like pathos, yes that Mr. Winter, Mr. and Mr. Cillespie, indomitable, Out of those tireil eyes M. Webb, Mr. G. F. Lipp. Mr. and Mrs. shone the spirit that no power on earth, C. Stewart, My McDonald, nod or from the Hell that the Boches Jave Mr RC Bradley, CO., LTD made on earth, cau- redure to whimpering There is no English equivalent on ¿tre French front for Mercy, mercy, Kub regarded this as a question for the deci-life, you should do all in your power to rad:

The light of the tea indomition of some superior officer possibly his get fat. I know nothing se valuable co able spirit of the modern crusader in Co. But it was wonderful to see the make people fat se khaki was there in every one of these

a preparation of two destroyers. They are men, the England, Passes dont of

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sailors They had their boats in overlooked, though here and there water almost before you could turn saw a man obviously tottering on the round. One of them cante close in along verge of collapse. The waiting R.A.M. side of us, and the other went eireling orderlies have deviloped an Iniost

round and round us, like a sheep-dog womanly intuitiveness in those matters but angry in, but that destroyer did They were instant in detecting such look angry. We floated just over & cases, and would run forward with a quarter of an hour, and we were very, tenderly helpful outstretched art, and nearly all clear of her, when she gave one mattered Feeling bid, old sonist, an went down like a plupimet. And the sense of the answer was in vari- That Just few minutes wasn't nice, you ably the same, as in the case of the first,

know like waiting to go over the para- et Some of us jumped to the deck of the words of which were:--L'in all righ, the destroyer, and some got knocked Bute, Just come over a bit, que about a hit wounded men, ye see: not All right again now

so handy na they might be other tinres. The destroyer game right in under is st the last, to get the last of us, and only drew away as the suction began. T

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There wasn't any muddle or panic, you know, no more'n on a job o' work at the Front I don't suppose we minded as much as civvies would. The Army dues each you how to keep your hend; and, anyhow, we'd been getting it in the mock. this long time from shells, and Emma Gees, an bombs, an' that. This was only

Inside the shed nothing had been for gotten. Hot drinks, sandwiches, and cigarettes; the blessed tobnece it was all waiting "there. And the kindly English; faces of those who provided the count they payed their part; two o'clock e morning or no. One does not you know, however tired, in the fucks of men who have just been snatched from well, of men who have just been rescued from one kind of death, when they had a right to think they had already excried sort of a last set. If it came out there, another kind in open lighting lighting you'd think nothing of it; but on the for you who read, and for humanity off a bit, as ye might say, an gets a bit way here I suppose e mu begins to lay large: for all that we of the Allied

slacker. peoples hold dearest and count as the decencies of life; for the women; and One gave a bandful of lint to one an children of the remotes American

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Some of the gréyness began to fade out from their faces nos, as, warmed and

cheered and comforted, they clifabed into the waiting train, filling teach after colight an endless succession. As they sank into their seats, one heard short, hard sighs of relief pass their tight closed lips. But for talk, there was mighty little of that, and might have been none, if one had put no questions. If yng, live with sufficient intensity for days os end, and then, on top of wounds and great fatigue, pas, through sune violent and unexpected crisis, you are apt to find speech sum curiously remote, not to say ont of place. If in the middle of the night you are turned out of bed as the result of a re, you may well spend the rest of the night comparing soles and swapping exueri ences, But not after the sort of thing these men had been through. But they were emphatically B.E.F. men, and what ever they felt would always respond to a call. They would carry on, these meny while life was in them hile life worth Yes, we were within sight of Blighty when the torpedo get us—it was a long lean North countrymen who spoke s'bab

* I only just found out I had that? said, “I did feel a bit of a burup. there when I was getting down the side, bar forgot it after. Of course, we could see she was done for, and everybody kept

quiet. It was lucky the rain was so heavy, they say, because it beat the en down a bit, and made, is smoother. It was purishing cold, but I'm feeling fe now. I got twenty-eight Buches to ine own rille, out there by Blangy; and 1 wish it had been a hundred. We picked 'em off as they ra 1, like rabbits. – Between us here, I reckon we must have got it regiment of 'em, so no wonder they wanted to get us, tonight. It seems a dirty way to do it, with a hospital ship. But, there, you know what the Boches are. A chap on the destroyer--they're men, those destroyer chaps, all-right-he told me a thing or two about what happens to these U boats, and it sounded pretty good, I can tell you. I suppe the Beches can't help bein - Boches--the silly blighters

One went the length of the long train, The silent calm of it all seemed almost unnatural, fatigue of body and mind. The whole thing was accepted as part of the day's work and, after all: We're in Blighty. you know, an' don't you for-

it just caught our stern, and blew it clean get it said one man, It's rather like away-s few men with it, too. Another || something you've seen in the pictures," " four seconds, and that would have been said another man... wasted torpedo.”

An exceptionally small, earnest faced man in the corner locked up. ・ “Yes,” he said, quickly and quietly, "and I sap pose a few-Bochis might have been saved for a bit from earningTM Hell!”*

Eb1 Well. I don't know about that, resumed the North countryman, în an open-minded, matter-of-fact way, sa if he Continued at fast of next columa.)

As the train pulled slowly, smoothly out from the stage, the rescued men offered up their thanks ngain, the only way they knew, with a long quivering cheer Are you down-hearted?" called an orderly With a long, rumbling roar ob a “ No!?? they disappeared into the night, and- England.

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