HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1919-5-1, Page 2TEE W'ORLD'S
GREATEST DANGER
MANY NATIONS ARE ON THE
VERGE OF FAMINE,
How Hunger Breeds Anger and Anger
Breeds Revolution as Seen in
Bolshevik Menace.
Hunger is to -shay the prime danger
of the world.
Anent:t has enough food and to
spare; Britain, thet:yh suffering from
.homage of certain food-etoil's, and
on non -belligerents whether we will
or no.
Let tie be Wise in time. belay is al-
ways dangerous, and it was never
more dangerous than now. IE WO
withhold food touch longer our bounty
will be toe late to save the situation.
Whilst we are talking and coercing
tho tido of Bolshevism le rising, and
the flood will sweep all befnro It, even
the civilization for which our lade
fought to the death,
Even our Arany of Occupation is
concerned about the state of the
people they see on the western side of
the Rhine. We know that their state
is bliss to the state of millions farther
NORTH OF FRANCE
single houme remaining, and the wreck-
age lies feet high on either elite of the
reed. Pitiful! Wo sew possibly two
ONE MASS OF RUMS walls of solve twenty feat iliP,lt stad-
g� RUMS Ing creel. Nothing eine. No snlakn
came from the disused shafts .except
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in the distance, where evidently an 0f -
TRICOLOR FLUTTERS OVER THE fort was being made to telco up the
WRECKAGE OF ARRAS, threads of ordinary toll, Teo soil
hero was a curious twice -roe color,
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Can One regard that as sytttbullcal?
Lens Is Five Mlles of Complete Cleves.Tot, withal, we felt groat pride at be.
longing to it nation that ran else back
tatlon-Vimy Ridge With Memorial those poor runts to their owners, and
to Canadian Valor. no better epitaph can be imagined
than 'He died in defense of his eoun-
A Y. A. D., now serving in France, try.'
oast. We meet tighten our belts for has written the following account of a • "We walked through Bethune, Or-
o further bout of self-denial, even recent visit to the battlefields: , leg to n puncture. The village wore a
though we take the role of being Good "we were two sisters, four Y.A.D.'s, !gloomy 1111(1 depressed air, Still, there
Samaritan to Russia, and Germane, and the girl driver. Going 'up the are glomi>s and shelter loft there. Once
t',rom the high price of almost every- j and Austria, and the more definite act line' meant being roused by a night . lu our car again, we turned In 0 north -
tiling eatable, has not felt the pinch of behlg the friend and helpmate to V. A. D. at 5 o'clock, a nice hot break- I westerly direction bath towards Lit,
of real integer; Tracie and Italy are half-starved neutrals, and the ruined fast at 5.30, and clambering into motorj Pol. With every mile we l6et the hag-
several degrees worse than Britain, . countries of the Balkan peninsula. i ambulance fitted with hot pipes at 6 gard look of the country. Our even -
but they are the allies of Britain and I Now Is the Time. I o'clock, armed with baskets of food, , ties appeared again --the roads iin-
America, and will be looked after., we must do it quickly and ode- rugs and as many overcoats as we ' proved and the fields looked cultivated
promptly. j quately. The world is to bo saved by could wear. So did we set out at the I and Little farms 1111(1 hooses spoke of
The rest of Europe, to go no further,food, and in no other way. Open the, darkest hour before the dawn. It was •; freedom and renewed energy. Then
is in various degrees on the verge of I gates wide and lot food flow into these Pouring wet, too. back, getting horn and there glimpses
famine, with Ru:s:;ia at the head of the stricken countries freely and plenti- "Oar route at first was more or less I of Han outrage in the ruins at Etaplos.
hunger list, and Austria. Germany and !fully, or at least as plentifully as the uninteresting. We careered along the Finally our own destination, a 1loepf-
the Balkan States little better. I world shortage will admit, and the long, straight roads, flanked on either 1 tut which must have been a refuge for
A Vicious Circle. dread figure of Bolshevism will be side by those peculiarly tall trees ninny of those who have enabled us
first scorched and finally killed. forming the endless avenues which to say:
Now hunger breeds anger, anger in • are characteristic oe France. We " 'We that have seenenen broken,
its turn breeds revolution. and revohl- •Its main prop will be knocked away,
its leaders will lose their authority- , passed through amoral villages, ap- le a )mow man is divi. divine.
,,tion in its immediate effect, at )Oast, which rests upon empty stomachs- Preached mostly by lave! crossing -----t'
is apt to breed poverty, and poverty anti the word will begin gradually to and a board a11nounc:halg rho nand, In AREAL LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
spells hanger all the time. Thus the emerge from the Hades of misery fact, the growing daylight merely re -
British Empire Possessed a Moral
Unity, Says Viscount Milner.
world has got into a vicious circle which to -day is breeding desperation
from which escape seems desperately and eventual ruin.
difficult.T—
The question is: Can the world get MY GOLLARi
out of this circle, and begin to make
real progress?? At present the ship of
Progress, caught in a maelstrom, is A London Tommy Describes a Deeper -
being welded round and round, and is ate Bedroom Struggle.
in peril of being engulfed and lost, "At last!" I murmured to myself as
says an English writer. From that I stepped forth from the Crystal Pal -
catastrophe we must save it if pos- ace a demobilized man, "Now for
sable. some civvies!"
There is no doubt. for instance, that On my return home -after a minis.
Bolshevism, the Russian virus which ture reproduction of the battle of the
seems to infect all who come into con- Marne on the Tube• -I hunted up some
tact with it, is spreading rapidly. ' old clothes, and prepared to change
The Red Arn'y is at the moment of into theta. aucl rubbish where it crashed.
writing apparently confined to the Tenderly I laid the favorite shirt of Some storeys lies the houses are left,
late empire of the Tsar, but there have pre-war days upon the bed. It was a! the fronos having been blown
been startling signs, of which the nice shirt, with a purple stripe in it. and it one place a baby's cradle away,ay,
Spartecism of Germany is the best de- Then socks -yes, not thick, coarse,
fined, that it will take all our wisdom, khaki socks, but thin silk ones, with • ed dejectedly over the edge of a hole
rent in the floor. We stopped more
than half an hour here, primarily to
see the ruined cathedral. The remains
of the cathedral stand -stand nobly;
there is very little roof, and the pass-
age along the nave up to the high al-
tar is perilous, being mound upon
mound of ruins; grass has begun to
grow between the cracks of fallen
stonework. Great gashes are in the
walls, but in one place two huge
vealed the flat, groan country with its
occasional woods, all very 'tidily' set
oat, and the wayside farms. On our
arrival at St. Pol, however, we began
to do some thinking to the effect that
it was not very long ago that the Ger-
mans were so far advanced that it
was au easy matter to shell this town.
and a hasty evacuation Of hospitals
took place.
Tricolor Above Ruins.
"Arras was our next destination, and
the moment we entered we realized
the damage savage war can do. What
were once houses are now just
wrecks; pile upon pile of masonry
Met, and statesmanship to keep it
there.
It is a snowball which gathers bulk
as it rolls, and where desperation
clocks on them. Time had not altered
their faces.
Then I proceeded to hunt for a col-
lar. and after a long search in the
rules savagery is a matter of course, chest of drawers I found one.
and a Red Army moving west would be Now let me say that from the mo-
a very serious menace indeed, strong! ment I saw that collar I did not trust
tbrough the allies are.it. It seemed to have a cheeky look;
What does Bolshevism feed upon? j there was too much neck about it.
It feeds upon hunger. In fact food, ; Well, everything went splendidly un -
mere sustenance, the right to remain til I started to put the fellow on, Then
alive, is the weapon which the Rue. ! the fun began. If that collar had not figures stand nearly intact, as are the
elan Bolshevist authorities use to hold ! "British make" printed on it, I should altar steps, though at their head is
the populace, and to force them to p.c.! have thought that it was a Hoche. One an enormous shell -hole. Looking at P
cept- at least in name and action, if thing I am quite sure of -if it wasn't the whole front from the steps out- that the department which really
a Becht) it was most certainly a Con- side, we sighed at such destruction, governed Nigeria and Hongkonk
itself with rho dorntn-
The transformation of the relations
between the United Kingdom and the
overseas dominions is almost com-
plete, Viscount Milner, secretary of
state for the colonies, told the Man-
chester branch of the Coloulal Insti-
tute recently. Lord Milner said that
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Malting the Oid Car New.
Many of us cannot afford to buy
new cars now, but there is nothing!
to prevent us from making our o}d 1
cars look like new. It is )tot a diffi-
cult natter to add many dollars to
the value of Mn old car, and with lit-
tle expenditure, of cash or effort.
Why should we drive a shabby -
looking car when a few brushes, a
small quantity of paint and varn:eh,
and a few hours of time and labor
will make it look like new?
With the excellent paints and
brushes now on the market, any per-
son who can paint a house can se-
eure pleasing results in painting a
car, Of course, more patience is re-
quired in finishing a car than is used
in painting a )rouse, but with cars at
present prices WO can afford to culti-
vate the necessary peticnee.
The most tiresome task connected
with making the old car new is re-
moving the dirt, grease and old paint
from wheels, chassis and body; but
it roust all come off, if we are to got
good results in the finished job.
A cloth dampened with kerosene
will quickly remove oil, grease and
dirt. Steel shavings, emery -cloth,
sandpaper, or other abrasives can be
used to cut away the old paint. Many
times a putty knife is useful on flat
surfaces, but care must be taken not
to scratch the wood or metal with
the sharp corners of the knife.
or get shabby, but holds its spring -
Mega until worn out.
A brush may. be cleaned by trash-
ing with gasoline or kat•aseue, but
to clean it thoroughly turpentine
should be used. A brush used fur
painting should not be used for
DENMARK'S FLAG
OLDEST IN EUROPE
RED, WHITE AND BLUE APPEARS
IN MANY EMBLEMS,
Australian Flag, One of the Youngest
In the World at Eve of War, Bears
the Five Stars of Southern Cross.
It 11110 been said and repeated that
varnishing,
the peace treaty would make over
A nice set of brushes for pt 111h1 tg again the map of Eurepo end else that
n car consists of a one -inch, a and of a large part of the globe. But no
and one -]tall inch, and a two -in• cl
one could Oye71 conjecture how many
brush.
There are several good makes' of tnhoew n(attlottalitlesmhwill be created in
on
auto paints on the market; in fest, 0110nexl.ltingPew , bow•evets.r, can be preeirt-
some paint manufacturers are ape- ed; 1. 0„ that each of these ceentrios
cializing in geode for 1;11 18 {rudee will have 1Ls own new fiats. Every -
Remember that in paint, as in body could notice the eagerness with
brushes, the cheapest is seldom the which countries Ma Poland, the ilk -
best. Be sure to get aself-ilovwing ratlike Lithuania, Finland, the Czech -
paint --thiol is, a paint which will oslnv territory, &C., have designed for
set even and leave a smooth saitrface themselves national Raga,
free of bristle marks. After the it is In this respect Interest! ,g to
paint is thoroughly dry it should be bring into notice u little known fact
covered with a good coat 'of varnish the oldest European Slag is that of
to protect the luster. Denmark.
One should not attempt a paint or This flag has a strange origin. If
varnish job during cold weather, for we, are to believe Danish treditious it
frost will cause paint to either was suggested to Bing Waldemar of
"chalk" or to "flake off." Right Denmark by a vision of a cross np-
after a spring rain lo an excellent hearing to flim in the sky ata par -
time to finieh a car, for at such a tteularly critical moment of his life.
It is ural' seven hundred years since,
and the Danish flog has through all
the centuries been such es it was made
by Waldemar.,
On the eve of tlto war one of the
youngest among the flags of the world
was the Australian flag, the standard
of lee Aimee, which covered itself
with glory on the French plains of AL,
tots and Picardy.
This flag, which is adorned with the
five stars of the Southern Cross, boars,
of course, the union Jack upon a field
of blue,
time the atmosphere is practically
free of dust.
An old eoat of paint, if free from
blisters, checks' or scratches, ran
somctimes be livened up by a coat
of varnish. Many cars offered by
used -ear dealers as "dcmonstrators,"
have received this treatment to add
the Dominions are entitled to look to a Everything considered, steel shavings to {heir youthful appearance.
future in which they would bo great probably give the best results, Never attempt a paint or varnish
powers. They all desired to remain in The selection of good brushes has job outdoors, in an open shed, barn
the empire, however, and if this do -very much to do with success in earl or other place where dust may arise
sire was fulfilled the world would see painting, for there is an almost and ruin the finish. The hest place
what it had never seen before -a num- measureless difference between a for such an operation is in a clean,
ber of great powers under a single good paint or varnish brush and a Light, well -lighted room.
head. It would be --was. in fact, a poor one. The top of the best brush. As soon as the finishing coat is
league of nations, but possessing a in sealed so as to keep the paint or thoroughly dry it is a good plan to
moral unity which the league hod still ,, ,,oiai, from ratting into the sponge carefully with told water e
to acquire.
This was the actual situation, but
the realities of the case were some-
what obscured by antiquated forms.
The department which normally dealt
with the dominions was the Colonial in at the end of the ferrule to give varnish.
Office,added strength and to prevent hairs! A good polish sparingly applied
ch wash
-
bristles at the top end loosening
them. All good brushes are solidly
set in cement inside a leak -proof fer-
rule, and a row of brads are driven
time or two before the car is striven.
The cold water process is recom-
meOded by the makers of many high-
priced ears for' it tends to harden tho
and 'well rubbed in after ea
#ng will add years to the finish of
almost any car.
But the dominions were in no sense
under the Colonial Office, whch was
simply the channel through which the
real partes, who were the govern-
ments of the dominions and the gov-
ernment of the United Kingdom trans -
acted their business. That arrange-
ment worked very well under ordinary
circumstances, but it was anomalous
not in principle, their peculiar revolu-
tionary tenets.
Recruiting Methods.
scientious Objector. Then we caught sight of something
At first it behaved very well; it did fluttering high TM in one of the arches, ions, which Great Britain did not pre -
up beautifully, and I commenced to small, bedraggled, but brave -France's tend to govern at all.
The Russian Bolshevists have con- tie the tie. It was then that the col- flag• -" o
battle- JERUSALEM'S WATER SUPPLY. th
towarde
piste control 0f all food supplies in lar started its tricks. "Wo went on—
Russia. If a man would prevent him- The front part suddenly remember- fields next, For juste little way the British Royal Engineers Have Estab-
self and his family from dying of star- ed something that it had forgotten to road was good, then the change began. 1lshed An Adequate System.
vation, he must juin the Red Army tell the back part, and with a swift The road was now bad, our driver Jerusalem at last has an adequate
and pay lip service, at least, to his movement rushed round to the rear of swerved several tines to avoid an
• obviously 'patched' part. The country
looked rough, unkept, trees had dis-
appeared, and we saw long, winding
lines in the sandy soil which we knew
masters.
At present there is nothing to pre-
vent Bolshevism spreading through
Germany. It is, in fact, spreading at
this moment. If it does, all bopsystem for ancient Jerusalem, nothing
s of tie. But the collar, evidently beton- had formed trenches. Wo bad not
has been done, until the beginning of
settlement and lasting peace, of which Ing Jealous of that innocent article of ayes enough to see all •round, though the present to enlarge or
we talk so hopefully. will disappear. attire, aud being determined not to be for miles the country looked the even keep up the Iiete
odnl system,
'You cannot negotiate with hunger- ignored in this way, sprang up without same desolate and war -swept. Several
even
it 1 d 1 E 11 1 to di
maddened revolutionaries. Thus the any warning, and hit me in the left
Treaty of Peace, which has been so ; eye. just to claim my attention.
laboriously framed, will become an- : I made a praiseworthy effort to be
other "scrap of paper:' I calm, and merely muttered "Bother "
The old adage which speaks of the' and again repiaceri the wanderer,
folly of cutting off one's nose to spite I ''Perhaps I am being too rough," I
one's own face is applicable here, if thought, and returned to the tie, this
anywhere, I time working with groat care.
We may desire to punish Germany. ; But this method only served to en -
We may say she has brought all her rage the collar, which, with a sudden
woes upon herself. But if be punish- growl. jumped clean off my peck and looked in silence upon the solid
my nock to realty rho onlisston.
I was in good spirits, and, keeping
my temper, replaced it with great
care. Then I recommenced upon the
water supply, and this blessing has
come with the British occupation.
In more than 1900 years from the
time when Herod established a water
times we passed a little clump of 1111 la Ong ago a on n suss.
mounds marked with plain wooden The city depended largely on private
crosses, but we knew the sacrifice had cisterns of rain water, and it was con -
not been in vain. sidered an event when the Turks, in
" 'This is Vimy Ridge; seed our 1901' partially restored tho work of
•
driver, madthe world seemed to stand Herdt
still. Only a slight uprising bit of But this restoration, as the British
ground, and yet how immortal. For- found, provided only a small aqueduct
ever, surely, will the maple leaf and gild pipe Line from the Pools of Solo -
to
laurel mingle hero. We got out anti in"' which also supplied water the Bethlehem. In the last six months the
British Royal Engineers have restored
and improved the Herodian system,
and Jerusalem now has plenty of good
water.
ing Germany we punish ourselves ---if : tonna - ted a series of python -like mound of bricks topped by a plain
we bring her woes upon our ten : motion: round the leg of a chair.
heads --what better are we? I retrieved it. and started off once
Vengeance is all very well. het it is more. But now the collar had really
a poor cure. It is •1p to '3) ai the pre. lost its temper, end with a grunt of dis-
sent time to stem, tie the ef Be Le. gust leaped clear of me. and committed
vism, and the only way le t' feed the suicide by drow,::ag in the water -jug.
starving populations ,f C:ntrai and I made no attempt to rescue it. I
Eastern Europe. tl':d not even gianee in the direction of
There are arguments for not raising Its watery grave. In.itend, I sent my
the blockade, We all know and can young brother out to buy some soft
recite them, They sound perfectly cotters.
just, They are technically just, in-
deed. But they are certainly not wise,0 gracious dream, and gracious time,
not to mention merciful. i And gracious theme, and gracious
We have always prided ourselves rhyme --
upon our hatred of including women When buds of Spring begin to blow
and children in the category of war's In blossoms that we usid to know
victims. War is war, and the results And lure us track along the ways
are deplorable, and involve suffering Of time's all -golden yesterdays! mining center is impossible, Not a
white stone cross, to the memory of
diose who 'went over' with 'nothing
but the will which says to them,
'Hold on," We roamed about" over
'No Mases Land, fell into small
trenches, stumbled upon a howitzer
base dump (we dumped some into our
car then!), and explored alt old dug-
out, It was difficult to think connect-
edly while wanting about here; such
odds had had to be surmounted, such
difficulties overcome.
Lens and Bethune.
"Lens was our next stopping place -
at least, what once Was Lena. It is
best described now as about five miles
of the most complete devastation, To
imagine it a largo and prosperous coal
To Assist Canada's Bakers.
Bakers will be interested to know
that one of the benefits instituted by
the Canada Food Board under the
liceneing system is to be continued as
a private undertaking. This is tiro
educational side of baking, in which
an effort was made to Improve the
standard of bread -making by applying
latest knowledge of processes and
methods, Mr. W. H. Linn, late chief
of the Bakery Section of the Food
Board, is now consulting and advisory
baking expert at Ottawa, and will
deal with any trade difiicultles, '
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pulling out and scattering over the
work. A good brush is smooth, soft
and flowing; it does not "plush" up
LONDON'S VILLAGES.
Scores of Hamlets Are Incorporated in
the World's Largest City.
London enshrines scores of villages.
The only trouble is that they are so
completely enshrined that it is diffi-
cult to tell where the village ends and
the town starts, But, for all that,
there are Innumerable relics and signs
of the old-fashioned village in such
places as Wandsworth, Chelsea, Put-
ney, Crouch End, Chiswick, although
in others, like Islington, Edmonton,
and Battersea, the village is almost
wholly submerged.
But there are few villages left in-
tact. Such a village is Roehampton,
between Putney Heath and Richmond
Park, which cat it off completely from
the town.
Another quite isolated and unspoiled
village lies on the other side of Rich-
mond Park, This is Petersham, in
many ways a mode: village. It con-
tains the entrance -gates and the state-
ly avenue of the Manor in good, old-
fashioned style,
There is a curious village left al-
most untouched on the banks of the
Wandle, near Garratt Lane. It is
called Somerstown, and is the abode
mainly of gipsiee and hawkers and
showmen, who nape pilgrimage to the
fairs. Though the tramcars clang
within hearing, if not within sight,
this quaint though squalid village
maintains its own life, its own ways,
and all its ancient houses and quaint
hostelries.
Another isolated London village
stands at the corner of Wimbledon
Common, just where it dips down to
Caesar's Well, Its cottages face 1110
common, and are all very old, With
them goal the inalienable right to use
the common az 0 drying-grouutl, a Government,
privilege which is welt taken advent- The sou of an cincture Bengal v11 -
age of, for every day hundreds of ger; Inge landowner, 11e was educated at a
menta are fluttering in the breeze, Mission School, A sncceesion of
seeming to point to the fact that the scholarships enabled him to got into
women are not above turning an college, and without influence and
honest penny. backing leo rose to the foremost posi-
tion at the 0aleu1ta bar, He is how re -
A pretty good test of a good farm- cognized as the cleverest man India
el' is the good fence ho builds, has produced.
PLENTY OF BOUNCE.
se -
How Engineers Test the Relative
Hardness of Metals.
Most of us remember how In boy-
hood's days we tried the rebound of
marbles off sort and hard pavements,
and noticed that they bounced highest
off hard glut stone,
This fact is turned to useful account
by engineers for testing the relative
hardness of the numerous metals and
alloys, whore It is highly important to
know If the pieces aro suited for their
work when built into motors, nem
planes, etc.
In the hardness -testing instrument
a miniature hammer with a diamond
Point to witheland wear is allowed to
drop doown inside a glees tube. As
the diamond Up strikes the metal to
be tested, it rebounds up the tube
again, the height depending on the
hardness of tea material. Lines mark-
ed on the tube-like a thermometer--
ehow the result.
To getthe hammer up again, there
is a pneumatic -suction device, worked
by a bulb; this sacks the hammer to
the top of tho tube.
A test of lead makes the hammer
bounce up only to the figure 2 or 3,
while off hardened steel it jumps up
as high as 110.
First Indian Peer.
"Ti the best man is an Indian, Ills
race elroulcl be no bar to any position
in the Government" That was the
view once eepressecl by Lord Morley.
Sir S. P. Shiite, Under-Secretary for
India, .on whom a peerage Is being
conferred, is, however, the first Indian
to receive a post in the British Home
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Black Seldom Appears.
Defer the war there existed but
two Slags where block and white were
allied. They were the Prussian flog
and the new Chinese flag. Since then
some young republics leave also
adopted black among their colors.
Black, combined with red and yellow,
was the Henan flag, and has also
long been displayed in the flag of
Sarawak,
Red is one of the colors found anost
fregnouLly on the flags. More than
nineteen countries aro counted whose
flags show a red part. Among them
are Great Britain, Franco, the United
Stele:;, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Sweden,
Switzerdond, Portugal, and in the
enemy's camp Germany. Austria anti
Turkey. These are only the largest
countries, as, for instance, valiant
Servia and Belgium have also rod in
their flogs. Indeed, the Greek and
Papal fiefs ere the only ones in Europe
which 111100 no red.
Blue is also much in vogue. It
ligeres on the French Tricolor, on the
Union Jack and on the Stars and
Stripes; end, with white, is the only
color on 1116 flag of Greece.
The flag of Brazil is mostly green.
Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria are the
only linropean eountrioe on whose
flags green figures. It is seen also in
the flags of Mexico, Bolivia and
Persia.
The yellow color figures on the flags
of Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Roumania,
Br'tiil and China and the Vatican.
?deny well known flags are embel-
lished with white, viz.: thoeo'of Great
Britain, France, Russia, Greece, Italy,
Germauy, Serbia, China, Switzerland,
Austria and the 'United States.
Tho combination of red, white and
blue is atter all the most important in
the world. It is found in the flags of
Great Britain, Franco, holland, Russia,
Liberia, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia,
Canada, Australia, South Africa, the
United States, Cuba, Chili, Panama,
Costa Rica, Hayti, Paraguay and San-
to Domingo.
HOW CZAR'S FAMILY MET DEATH.
Stripped and Subjected to Grossest
Indignities, Then Shot.
Capt. 10, 11I, Wiener. Senior Ord -
11a1100 Obiter of 141llltal'y District No.
1, who has returned to Loudon, Out.,
after spending the winter on duty in
Siberia, received first-hand from a
courier from Omsk, a story of the
murder of the ox -Czar of Russia and
member's of his family,
The courier possessed a number of
small pieces of jewelry mid other
trinkets, which he claimed to have
picked hem the asitia of 'the pyre on
which the baclios of the members et
the Royal House hall been buu•no:l.
Nicholas and his family were teal -
fined for days in the cella of a hone,
tho comet told Capt earthier, and on
the day before their deaths all wore
stripped of clothing and tah.hsctod to
the grossest indigninel The women
were subject to especial brutalities,
and Inter all wore marched out, Mod
up against a wall and sltet. Ono of
111e princesseswho was enty wounded,
had her brains boater out with tate
butt of a rifle,
Very Promising,
They had just become engaged.
"What joy it will be," she 0xelaimed,
lifer ole to share all your griefs and
sorrows;'
"But, denies," he protested, "I have
,none,"
"Verbal), f;,dti 110W," 0,110 011ewel'ed,
t'but when WO are u,1atlried you Will
have,"
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