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KERENSKY. KÜSSIA'S EVIL GENIUR.

GIRL'S TRAGIC LIFE STORY.

"ZOLA COULD NOT HAVE SUCH A PAINFUL STORY.”.

[BY COMTE GASTON DE MERINDOL.].

Even Zola could not, I think, bave The

first time I saw Kerensky was at Direktor General Conrad Zimmermann, the Imperial Dums. His speaking time written such a painful story," remarked. of the Augsbarg Reinsurance Company had come to an end, and, like an obedient Sir E. Marshall Hall, K.C., at London (antering, unannounced, the room at the General Manager of a leading British schoolboy, he resumed his place humbly Sessions, recently, when supporting the

Here, Mr. X, Insurance Company); I want one word or two with you with when the Presidential bell rang and appeal of Gertrude Ebermann against a out delay. Look here, you've got to re Rodzianko imperiously motioned to him sentence of four months imprisonment He went frequently into the and a recommendation of deportation arrange your Treaties at once-I have just to cease. drafted out a scheme.

What you say why? Listen to this, tribune, where his eloquent words, some ordered by Mr. Mead, the Marlborough- my friend. If you don't agree, and also what capricious though they were in street magistrate, for travelling more very quickly, I shall prevent the Govern ment Board of Control of Insurance from inspiration, contrasted strangely with his than five miles from her registered place

of abode without a permit, granting you a license to do business at common and affected gestures, suggestive. all. You say you can't cancel your exist-of the little cabotin. ing contracts Rubbish! tell your pre- sent insurers you've got to. Quote what those damned French Ray Major Force (laughs unrestrainedly)--Ha! ha! that's a good joke; we Germans are the military nation And of course Major Force' is on

our side.

Later, after the revolution, untiring and full of nervous energy, he paraded every where his eloquence, his promises, and his threats. In these three words is the com- plete description of the man. His capa city goes no further, and dazzle his audi ences as he may by his language he is never able to fulfil the threats and the promises of which he has been so lavish.....

In the Winter Palace, and wearing the Emperor's slippers, he would strut about

the

During his thirty-dvo years' experience at the Bar he had never, added counsel; come across a more terrible or dramatic

story. Appellant, who was 28, was born at Leipsic. Her parents were undoubted- is German, but her father came to this country, and was naturalised in 1896. She was only 11 weeks old when brought

What you've got to give me and my daughter companies is a quota ahare-no first surpluses now-of your entire bush ness, and at a fair commission. Who decides that, did hear you say? We do, of course. Look you here, my friend, in front of the mirrors amid the gilded to England, and even now could not the When she was 16 her mother was called it is no good, being sulky, we are what pillars surrounding the throne, practising speak any language but English.

his deportment for the review of now and are going you call top dog to stop so. Hurry up and make up your speech-making of the next day. With him to a dying relative in Germany, Left mind: I tell you so for your own sake. the mise en scene was everything; but alone with her father, the girl was for Dr. Schlauberger of the 'Darmstadter arranged as it was by a man of only dragged and assaulted by him, and at and with the instincts the Old Bailey he was given five years' He is a tough of the small

mediocreadesman is was often ridi will be here to-morrow, nut, warn you, and, unless you are aiready fixed up with me and my little consortium, you'll have to go to him and he will suck your blood.

Pfui, it's hot talking: I'll come and have lunch with you now, and this after- noon you and your Chairman can sign this little contract which I've got all ready." EPISODE THE SECOND.-As there was wide

hagering hope that it might be. The Same":

Ach. my dear Mr. X, am glad to End you looking so well and robust: upon my honour, you appear younger than when I last had the pleasure of seeing you. No, no, I didn't come only to compliment you on your health: business is business, and, after all, there is nothing like the good old English way of coming straight to the point. You are rather surprised to see me! Come, coule, Mr. X.. you don't think I cherish malice?

Bat the comedy, or, rather, the farce, No, but you do? My dear and honoured sir, let me assure you with my whole heart ended there. There were realities during reign," and these realities covered that the continuance of embittered feel his

A wounded South African soldier was ings, now that the terrible war is happily his fatherland with blood and shame: also over, will be to the lasting prejudice of they caused it to undergo the Boverrat

I tell experience that story can have to crossing the road at Hammersmith, and England, as well as Germany. you quite frankly that we, the business register. Thanks to this man, who filled seeing that he was hobbling she went to men of Germany, never wanted the war. Russia and the Allies with illusions, abis assistance. The acquaintance ripened did our best to stop the war, and will whole nation is writhing to-day in misery into friendship. He had shown himself a gentleman and had instructed counsel never again allow the military party to and madness.

to appear for her. get the upper hand.

culous. The Napoleonic gesture of thrust. penal servitude. Uncared-fur, she cbtain had acquired by studying the portraits of for nearly four years, when her father ng his hand in his waistcoat--which he ed work in the West-end, and was happy Bonaparte, often provoked ironical re- was discharged from prison, and return marks muttered among the soldiers as heed to make her life intolerable again. Was Pouchka,

Nor were the appearance of or " grandmother of the revolution," in the Presidential chair, on the memorable opening of the pro visional Parliament, and the blessing she appeared to bestow on the Dan just as she would have bestowed if, by the way, in her torpid old age, on Lenin, or Trotzky, er even on the Tsar himself the least picturesque incidents of the Kerenskyan era. Eaten up by vanity. in fact, he imitated those who had been in power before him, and already saw his name inscribed on the pages of history beside those of Feter the Great and Alexander III.

What do you say at all events we didn't protest against the Wittenberg horrors and the U-boat sinkingsly dear sir, when my wife heard about the Lusitania she was prostrated with grief; I thought she would have been seri ously ill through the shock. As regards the prisoners camps, there may have been mismanagement owing to our wretch ed military organisation, but my cousin saw with his own eyes the children of his native town actually casting laurel Wreaths on the English prisoners as they were marched through-so deep an in- pression had your valiant Tommies creat

ed..

wart

the

Anxious to get away she decided to marry the first man she could, and that was how she met Ebermann, a German, Although it seemed increflible, he turned out as bad a man as her father. He was great hairdresser in the Borough, but owing to his conduct she was drivea to leave him, and herself, opened a hairdresser's Her husband went to Switzerland, whero shop, which she carried on for six years. he was imprisoned and later returned to this country. On her mother's advice sha again went to live with him.

When, before the revolution, men died fighting, they died for Russia and for the Taar; then some there were (ch, very few!) who gave their lives for Liberty; and later still others had to die for Kerensky? What irony in the fate of those who, deceived by his sonorous phrases, and willing to perish for Russin's sake, were doomed to sacrifice themselves for this man!

Who but he is really responsible for the destruction of the Army? The prikaze,

to

Then he was interned at Alexandra

Bent Palace, being subsequently Holland in exchange for a British pris- oner of wat. Appellant continued to maintain herself, but two years ago romance entered her life.

He had also proposed marriage some time ago, and it was then that she told him ber life history. She also went to her husband where he was interned and implored him to divorce ber so as to give her her freedom, but he refused..

In an error of judgment she had com mitted the unpardonable sin by becoming the mistress of the soldier, and it was when visiting him that she travelled to Folkestone, beyond the limit: It would or decreo, came from the Soviet, it is be a disgrace to humanity to deport her. true; but whom did it behove, whose duty She hated everything German, having was it, and who ought to have had the herself been, treated as scum of the earth courage, to annul it? Goutchkoff, I

know,

and

the and

could not have known all the circum- stances. They had decided to dismiss the appeal, but to reduce the sentence to s fine of 210, and they suggested that the Home Office should reconsider the de portation recommendation.

was Minister of War at the by two loathsome specimens of Hars

After the magistrates had consulted Well, I see you want to be off, can't moment; but who was the man who alone. you, before you go, promise at an carly had the power to undo what had beer Mr. Lawrie, he said he thought Mr. Mead opportunity to reinstate our Company in done! Kerensky, and none but Kerensky

Of course, it is your list of reinsurers?

The whole of Russia believed in him alone, bound to be full to overflowing, but you had no hope but in him; his very name

first-class security,

was enough to electrify the minases. And Orkney and Shetlands" Abyssinia, are they quite up to your to what use did he put all this power, all standard? They paid up all right for this prestigel To concoct speeches, to the Spitsbergen conflagration, did they utter threats and to make promises, while Um, yes, but they must have eaten intacitly consenting to all the exigencies of & party haunted by the madness of their reserves a good deal. Anyway very

And therein lay his crime! many thanks for your promise to put usanarchy back as soon as possible. Good-bye, dear All those unfortunate young men, edu

the Mr.X. I assure you that. opportunity cated at the military schools, the pages deed, it seemed to be enthusiastic. of re-visiting my London friends is one and the junkers who might and day I declare this enthusiasm can only do of the greatest privileges which has been vouchsafed to me; li am looking round for mounted guard near his palace just as harm to the Allied cause in Bussin a shanty in Hemptedown; and shall, they did at the Embassies of the Allied recall the time when another political countries and who, slaves of the discimalefactor-ho," too, could deceive and hope, often run across you."

pline they had been taught in the days dazzle the public man whose intellect EPISODE THE THIRD,de they are begin. of "Great Bussin," went to their death was certainly inferior to Kerensky's, won

ning to resline that it may be. (Translation of a letter to the Board of Directors of the Augsburg Bein- surance Company, from their dele- gate to London-General Manager Conrad Zimmermann.)

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The welcome offered here to this mere phrase-monger was based on good nature At times in- more than anything else.

But,

for this man, because it was their duty the general support of the Allies, when be to defend the representative of the State was nominated. I refer to Protoropoff.

how their blood must cry out for venge- ance! For while he was escaping through a brick-door the streets and squares of

red. Petrograd were running

I lived through terrible days at the time of the October revolution, days even I hardly know how to commence the more terrible than those during which Many of recital of my extraordinary experiences Nicholas II. loss his throne.

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will not name, remarked to his Majesty that to keep the Minister of the Interior in power was to compromise Russia with the Allies, Nicholas IL produced English They're and French newspapers full of praise and admiration of his Minister. satisfied over there," said the Emperor, want? The you of the last few days. Never have I been these young men were known to me. Some coldly; "what more do subjected to such gross treatment, never of these who, in the fortress of St. Feter writer of these lines sent at the time letter have my ears listened to such impertin and St. Paul, had to undergo at the hands after letter to the newspaper he repre елсен. Some of the British Managers of the Maximalists treatment worthy of sented, in order to let the Allies know all cause of the whole Messrs. A., B. and C., actually refused the Middle Ages have since told me of the about Protopopoff, whose coming into to see me; indeed, the last-named sent me disgust and hatred they feel for the vain power was the

catastrophe; but the French censorship out a message that if I did not at once and garrulous comedian who was the

suppressed everything he wrote on the cease tefouling the main office (1 quote of all their sufferings)

subject. words), he would turn his Bel- When Karensky betrayed Korniloff,

if at that time Protopopoff was sian derks on to tar and feather me after having urged him to undertake the the est-hated and most despised man in I saw were in the highest degree formation of a strong and ruthless Gov Russia it is the same to-day with regard offerisive. Mr. D. snarled that he would ernment, and to march on the capital, did

to Kerensky like to crucily me-alleging (of course, he not commit one of the most infamous incorrectly) that one of his Canadian staff sets in all history? The ill-fated General was similiarly treated. Mesata and Doukopine, who succeeded him as Gen- and Protopopoff the one a mystic, the P. were equally ungracious; Mr. E. told eralissimo, told me sadly at headquarters other a madman-Kerensky is the connect me that the British Companies had learnt a few days before he was assassinated some ing link between them and the leaders of their lesson,

and that in future good Bri- details of the business which are still Bolshevism, Lenin and Trotzky, Russia, tish reinsurance premiums would be kept unknown to the public. And what shame that land of unreality, and immeasurable at home at all events, not handed over and anger was felt, on behalf of all greatness, has beaten the record of the two years by this quintet of political stated that, as long as remembrances Russia, by the great patriot. Alexeieff at impossible in letting itself be governed for remained of his heroio 94 dead, no single this fresh crime on the part Kerensky!

Look at this puny-little man. Not all epileption on the part of the Allies penny of his Company's money should go the shells, not all the machine-guns, of the must take place; and they must hurry to to a German refusarer he also em Germans have done Bussis more harm phasized that policy holders would make than he and when, we make up his bring it about. Otherwise it will be too themedves beard in this respect, and that account we find on the one side only late, for the Germans will not be deceived. But there are other men, apart from any reversion to the old order of things phrases and still more phrases such could easily bring about so over orntor loves, and on the other the Russian Kerensky, to sid the Allies in their enter- prise, men whose political honour is un- whelming an expression of national senti Army destroyed, every administration: blemished, men who hare given a thousand ment as would seriously, react. one very public service destroyed, estate may procis of their fidelity to our cause, ten figures of any

who will work, hot for a party, but for show a clear record which could not properties destroyed.

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Gut Russia-men, in fact, who will how to Your honourable selves will indeed be describe Kerensky as the great amazed at the fuller revelations which I force in Russia

And this is the man who has come to will of the people as to the choice of

of their country. I shall be privileged personally to make to ask the intervention of the Allies! In think those, Englishmen who know Russis you; the antagonism of the formerly easy whose name does he speak1 In the nante will be of my going, easily persuaded British is anöt Russia? In the name of a party? Or Alexsielt, pinion when I name them: 1

Dragomiro, Badko- appalling disclosure, and is of serious in his own name that of Kerensky? The purport to us. I am returning at once, last must be the right supposition: he can Dimitrieff, Korniloff, Kaledin, etc., etc. And to the suggestion to take a long peak only in his own name, for no party In their time the Russian tri-colour, WEEKLY PRESS, January to Jone

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ZIMMERMANN. (Continued at foot of next Column:)

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