“I Shall Never Become
Traitor to My Country”
(Czar Nicholas, in repudiation of suggested treason)
PKTROGRAD, March 10 .ia Lon
don. March :i*>. -The history of tiv
last hours of Kmpernr Nicholas a
ruler o; Lwi-sia is related .»> a to»
respondent of the Outro Rossii, o
Moscow, as follows:
**Tv%o f ains arrived at »he sta'ioi
at Y’li hera (on the Moscow-Pot m
grad railroad. 12.» miles southeast o!
IVrograd), on the night of March .1
One train carried the emp-wr's suite
the second the emperor. Genera
Huron Fredericks, minister of the im
perial house, and Admiral Xilot*. Gen
eral Zabel and others. Nicholas, call
ed from headquarters by the empress
was on tin way to the Tsarskoe-Selo
"None of the telegrams about the
revolution sent b\ President Rod
ziunko of the duma had reached the
emperor. Kvery effort was made to
keep him in ignorance of these at
afirs. General Zabel protested, de
clanng that it the others refused to
inform the emperor h*1 would do so.
Nicholas, who had been sleeping, was
awakened at 2 o'clock in the morning.
He went to the dining car and demand
ed that Admiral Nilotf tell him what
had happened in Petmgrad. He was
told that a crowd of students, hood
ums and young soldiers had terror
ized the duma hut that a few detach
ments of troops would he able to put
them down.
General Tells ( zar Truth
".Ju.'t then Commander Yeyekotf ol
the imperial train entered with a tele
gram stating that TOO of the St
George cava ry wen* on tin* way tc
Tsarskoe-Selo to present a cross tc
the emperor and had arrived at thi
nearby station of I>no. headed b>
General Ivanolf.
"‘Your majesty.* said \eykoff, *ii
is enough that you appear at th»
Tsarskoe-Selo in the midst of thesi
heroes and with the Isarskoe-SeU
garrison go to the duma. AH th*
troop." will remember their oath. I
will be easy to overcome these count
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»j “ *lt is a lie, your majesty,’ shouted
s General Zabel. ‘You are deceived.
- Read these telegrams. Here is the
f order:’ To the imperial train at
. Vishera: l)o not send the train to
Tsarskoe-Selo. but to Petrograd.’
“The emperor arose and exclaimed:
*What does this mean? Is it revolu
l
jtion? Is Grekoff (who signed the or-1
der to divert the train) commander ini
Petrograd?’ Then General Zabel
I spoke out. saying: ‘There are (>0,000
troops, with officers, backing the tem
porary government. Your majesty
has been declared dethroned. It is I
impossible to go further.’
Row to Will of People
“Nicholas completely nonplussed.1
exclaimed: ‘Why was l not told be
fore0 Why tell me now when all is
finished ? Thank God, I will abdicate
if that is what the people want. I will
1 go to Livadia (the estate of the Rus-!
i sian imperial family on the south j
coast of the Crimea), to my gardens. lj
am so font! of flowers.’
“The train moved toward Rologoie.
At Dno a telegram was received stat
ing that the Tsarskoe-Selo garrison
had revolted and that the empress had;
appealed to the duma for protection, j
Nicholas pondered the situation, then
said: ‘l shall go to Moscow. Mroso
vski (commander of the Moscow gar-;
rison), used to say Moscow always
would defend me.’
“At Rologoie was received a tele-j
gram stating that the Moscow garri-j
son had joined the revolution. The j
train returned to Dno, where it met j
the train bearing General Ivanoflf. |
The general related everything which j
had taken place, adding:
Refuses to Turn Traitor
.. is only one thing to do
• now. It is to open the Dvina front to,
> the Germans and let them quiet the 1
* canaille.’ Nicholas rejected the sug
gestion exclaiming angrily: ‘I shall
never become a traitor to my country.’j
, “Then Nicholas broke down and
wept. After a moment he said: ‘II j
only 1 knew my wife and children
{were safe. I should go to Livadia!
quietly to finish my life and let
Michael govern the country. He is
well liked by the people. I will sign
my abdication and then go back to the
army, sav goodby to the soldiers and
let them do as they like. I shall not
stand in the way.’
“The last colloquy occurred on the
station platform, Nicholas, who was
dressed in a soldier’s coat with a
colonel’s shoulder straps, and a sheep
skin hat tilted back, frequently mop-1
ped his brow. He gazed about in an
abstracted manner and then mounted
the steps of his car. Thereupon the
train moved off.
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Jack Whalen, who has been em
ployed by the Graham & Calrke can
nery at Cordova driving piling, was
found dead in his room a few days
ago. Commissioner Medley has or
dered an inquest held to determine
the cause of death.
Gui* Lessing, a well known and
esteemed trader at Allakaket on the
Koyukuk, committed suicide there re
cently. The body was found in bed
with a 22-calibre rifle tied to the bed
post and a string attached to the trig
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agement were the cause of the act.
Hawley W. Sterling of the Alaskan
Engineering Commission at N'enana,
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Fairbanks. He inspected tie camps
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A balane sheet of the territorial
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total of $217,026.50 in the treason.
Of this sum $106,884.58 is in the gen
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VERDUN BAD IS
: GERMAN CLAIM
LONDON. (Special.) - Reuter’s
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order issued by Field Marshal von
Hindcnburg has come into the posses
sion of the British forces.
In part, the order says:
“The operations at Verdun from
! October to December resulted in seri
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which was unusually large for Ger
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surrendered without serious resist
ance or without suffering heavy
losses, show the morale of some of
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