text: TZAR CYRIL 1"? A' I » % < ri&imlwffi :: \\\\ * s V fc, /// HEro— i\ z 4*afe/\ /// ■- // /yWfc ■*.m»4 W*r fWL-MI vi\ n (W w''' ; jWMr /i/i iLiR? * J||M "** J \U & IBiHwmf W \ •I'f V/ ’ n w W I B t 4ak / I ‘ 5'i®/ I? i '\ / I x M vU 'IRE®> - :/ I / V j ///A / 1 WA / /M X •.' r • /y jrO A IbMKb, Z»% < • - z- yy AV riz^e^ / J iQk 1 I* Gzazzef L - '' I A Z^Z < ”) fr rx Gy.ril u lj £=:: = :: ===== *~ — ZVC |mL JZ& Wfi H -_ - Q s==s r /Z ‘iJC/11 v ~~*"TJO K i Z -v —■ wW s£.. Will Russia Again • \ on the Throne? / HE very latest form of the stock question, “What next in Russia?” is this: “Czar Cyril I?” • When Alexander Kerensky, who headed the revolution that forced Sto 10 lat lo Czar Nicholas II from the throne of the Romanoffs, was tottering In this fall, the question was, "What next after Kerensky?" Its next form was, "What next after Trotsky?" Now the question seems to be, "What next after Trotsky?"—with "Czar Cyril" thrown in for good measure. The Russian situation has as many complications as a cross-word puzzle. At this writing, Leon Trotsky, the war minister, may be alive or dead, in power or a prisoner or exile — press reports from Russia agree only in omitting to say that he is dead. While the news from Russia is utterly unreliable because of a strict Soviet censorship, it is presumably true that Trotsky is at outs with the other Soviet and is the center of what appears to be a cyclonic storm. Grand Duke Cyril, from his place of exile in Coburg, Bavaria, has proclaimed himself Cyril I, czar of all the Russias. The Grand Duchess Cyril has recently paid us a visit of more or less mysterious purpose—which may have been for publicity only. The dowager empress of Russia — to give her her former title — does not admit that Nicholas II is dead and denounces Cyril. Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of Nicholas II and oldest of the Romans, supports her. General Wrangel and the exiled remnants of his anti-Bolshevik “White Army” are loyal to the claim of Grand Duke Nicholas to the Romanoffs throne. Kerensky, also in exile, is as strongly against Wrangel as he is against the Soviet government. And, finally, the Soviet government appears to be having difficulty in holding down the peasants and making them say they like the ruin and chaos that everywhere prevails in Russia. On the other hand, although the Soviet government may be having hard going in Russia, Europe appears to be badly scared over Communist activities outside of Russia. The British government, for more than a month, has been working hard in a campaign to organize a crusade of great and little powers, including the Vatican, against the Communist activities for a world revolution. It is frightened by the progress of revolutionary propaganda in India, Egypt, Persia, Afghanistan, and Mesopotamia. The Communist Internationale of Moscow retorted by ordering a general Bolshevik uprising in the Balkans the second week of March and the establishment of Soviet republics in Albania, Bessarabia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Galicia, and Macedonia. The British foreign office has brought about a coalition of Rumania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia against Soviet Russia. The French have also felt the scare and have turned and are giving support against Russia. As to Russian chronology, it will be remembered that the World War broke out in 1914, with the declaration of war by Austria against Serbia, July 28. Germany declared war against Russia August 1 because the latter had begun to mobilize its armies. September 1, 1915, Czar Nicholas II took over the supreme command from Grand Duke Nicholas, his uncle. March 12, 1917, the Kerensky revolution was accomplished and Nicholas abdicated. September, 1917, Provisional President Kerensky declared a republic. November the Lenin coup at Petrograd overthrew the Kerensky government and established Communism. July 10, 1918, the Fifth All-Russia congress adopted a constitution. (The congress of 1922 established the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics under the Communist March 19, 1918, Lenin and Trotsky announced the surrender of Russia to the Central Powers. March 26, 1922, the Russian Soviet Supreme Court executed Archbishop Zepliak. January 21 occurred the death of Nikolai Lenin (Vladimir Ilyitch Uli anov), head of the Russian Communist party and Soviet republics. The United States has refused to recognize the Soviet government. The British Labb government recognized it February 1, 1924. “Czar Cyril” is Grand Duke Cyril Wladimir Vich. Grand Duchess Cyril is Victoria Feodorovna. Her father was the Grand Duke Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. She is a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, a cousin of King George V of England and a sister of Queen Marie of Rumania. Her first husband was her first cousin, the grand Will Build Bridge as Did Legions of Caesar. The primitive methods used by the legions of Julius Caesar in building bridges during his Gallic campaigns are being employed by a group of United States soldiers to construct a 2nd-foot span over the upper Elkhart river in the wild Olympic mountains of Washington, says a Tacoma (Wash.) dispatch to the New York Herald-Tribune. The soldiers include 130 officers and men. Today, the Duke of Hesse, a brother of the czarina of Russia. She divorced him in 1901. In 1905, she married Grand Duke Cyril, in spite of the fact that Czar Nicholas II forbade the marriage. They were banished and it was not until 1909 that they were allowed to return. Here is the proclamation in part of Cyril: Let the Russian army, although called Red, but whose ranks have largely been forcibly enrolled, say its final word and Come to the succor of the downtrodden rights of the Russian people and revive the historical tradition, standing for the faith, the czar and the fatherland, and restore law and order to Russia. In conjunction with the army, let the masses of people arise and call for the rightful czar of the country, who will be the loving, forgiving, and thoughtful father and ruling sovereign of the great Russian country, who will be feared alone (by the enemies) and by the willful wreckers and destroyers of the nation. The czar will restore the churches, forgive those who have misled and give to the peasants the legal ownership of land they possess. Then Russia will receive ample relief from famine and salvation from final destruction, and later will be able to restore its destroyed household and will regain peace and happiness. The task of the czar will be a painful and difficult one in a Russian impoverished and shaken to its foundation. Not for personal glory, not for vain honors nor for attainment of power shall the czar assume the throne of his ancestors, but for the accomplishment of his duty before God, before his conscience and his country. Imperatively calling for the accomplishment of his holy task of liberating our native land from the humiliating and ruinous yoke, I first of all consider myself obligated to uphold the law and follow my duty, ignoring any hesitation and disregarding the fact of my unwilling absence from my country. Grand Duke Cyril’s proclamation was received with anger by Marie Feodorovna, dowager empress of Russia, mother of the murdered Czar Nicholas II. She wrote the following letter of protest from Villa Hvidoere, near Copenhagen, to Grand Duke Nicholas: “Your Imperial Highness: My heart was painfully depressed by reading the manifesto of the Grand Duke Cyril Wladimirich who declared himself emperor of All Russias. There is no definite news up to now about the fate of my beloved son and grandson. I, therefore, consider the act of Grand Duke Cyril’s proclamation as premature. Nobody is in a position to deprive me of the last gleam of hope. I am afraid that this manifesto may create division and instead of improving will render still worse the state of tortured Russia. If it would please the Almighty, in His unknown ways, to take unto Himself my "beloved son and grandson, I believe, without any forecast of the future and with firm hope in Divine Grace, that the future emperor will be designated by our fundamental laws in unison with the Orthodox church and altogether with the Russian people. I pray the Almighty to spare us His anger and to save us by those ways known only to Him. I am sure that you, as the oldest member of the house of Romanoff, share my views. MARIE. Following is the statement of Grand Duke Nicholas following the receipt of the letter of the dowager empress: I am happy to state that her Imperial majesty the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna had no doubt that I share her feelings in regard to the act of the Grand Duke Cyril Wladimirrovitch in proclaiming himself emperor of all Russias. I had already many opportunities of expressing my deep conviction that the form of the future organization of the Russian state can be decided only on Russian soil in accordance with the aspirations of the Russian people. Disagreeing with the steps taken by the Grand Duke Cyril Wladimirovich, I appeal to every Russian sharing the thoughts of her imperial majesty and mine, and I urge them to fulfill their duties to their country by continuing energetically and without interruption the holy task of the liberation of Russia. May God help us. GRAND DUKE NICOLAI NICOLAYEVITCH. Alarmed over Grand Duke Cyril’s propaganda campaign for the Russian throne, the Berlin Russian emigre colony of supporters of Grand Duke Nicholas held a secret conclave with General Baron Wrangel, commander of the anti-Bolshevik army which was interned in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria after its defeat in the Crimea. At a secret conclave General Wrangel denounced Grand Duke Cyril’s intentions as a “bluff” and all the participants pledged loyalty anew to Grand Duke Nicholas. Men of the Sixth Engineers from Camp Lewis. They are building the bridge for the forest service, to gain experience and to save money for the government. The structure is being put up from a trail in one of the most isolated sections of the West and no power machinery of any kind is available. The troops and army mules are doing all the work, from cutting down trees to putting them in place for the bridge. The soldiers live in a tent village. They have to pack their supplies for miles over forest and mountain trails. Penalty of Politeness Our democratic machines have no place for the man of polite manners. I have long since given up taking the omnibus; the conductor came to look upon me as a passenger who did not know what he was about. In traveling by rail, I invariably have the worst seat, unless I happen to get a helping reflect the real feelings of the Russian emigres, representing only an insignificant fraction of them. “Hell will freeze over before I become a Bolshevik. Not in this life or hereafter will anyone be able to call me a Bolshevik.” Thus Kerensky, who made the revolution which overthrew Nicholas and who was defeated by the Bolshevik and tied to Czechoslovakia and Germany, answered reports that he had joined the Soviets. At this writing the latest news concerning Trotsky, the war minister, is that the Bolshevik commissar of finance, Sokolnikov, has denounced him in the Moscow Prada as a Menshevik, saying: “We have decided quietly to remove Mr. Trotsky from the Soviet activities without further explaining the differences between his policies and our own. Our party faces a great crisis to fulfill the Soviet’s policy, which is a successful world revolution.” All sorts of stories continue to come out of Russia, indicating a bitter struggle between Trotsky and the ruling triumvirate; some even tell of bloody conflicts in the streets of Moscow between the factions. That the Soviet government is having trouble with the peasants is shown by an epidemic of assassinations of Communist officials in Moscow. The villages which have been raging since September. Said M. Zinoviev, dictator of the Leningrad district, in a public speech in Moscow: We must be careful how we treat the peasants. The peasant question is more dangerous for us than the combined forces of 100 Kolchaks, 100 Chamberlains, and 200 Hughes. The question is developing in Communist villages into a Gordian knot which we must solve if our dictatorship is to continue. Should we fail, our excellent maneuvers in international politics will not help us. The revolution will perish and our dictatorship will fade. Should we fail to take into consideration the change now proceeding in the attitude of the peasants towards us, we are making a monstrous mistake which will mean our collapse. The Soviet government has consistently warred on religion. It may or may not be significant that the Russian peasants almost universally this year celebrated Christmas. Even in Moscow, the chapel of the Iberian virgin, the most famous Christian shrine in all Russia, was crowded all day—while almost next door to it is the Bolshevik shrine, the tomb of Lenin. The Russian peasant has again burst forth into song and satire in the form of rhymes of four lines each, their old-time “chatushki.” Where the Communist dares not even whisper, they are boldly singing anything that comes into their heads about Soviet officials and policies. Here’s a printed sample: Yesterday a cook was I, Stewing beans and peab— Now I am a Commissar Signing my decrees. What was the purpose of the visit here of Grand Duchess Cyril? Nobody seems to have reliable information on the subject—or information that is accepted as reliable. Victoria Feodorovna herself gave out this statement upon her arrival in New York: The Grand Duchess Cyril has learned of reports appearing in the public press which have variously intimated that her visit to this country is for political purposes, to help restore the Russian monarchy, to sell a chateau, etc. The grand duchess wishes to invoke the courtesy of your newspapers in publishing a complete and unequivocal denial of these statements and reports. They are without any foundation in fact. Her visit is purely social in its nature and has no political or financial purpose. It is being made at the invitation of American friends whose invitations she accepted in Paris last summer. The cordial invitation which was then extended to her furnished an opportunity which the grand duchess has long desired, to visit a country bound to her own land by ties of traditional friendship, and which has so frequently and generously befriended her countrymen. She is looking forward with the greatest interest and pleasure to her short stay here; but beyond her expectation of meeting her American friends and visiting some of the places of interest she has formed no plans. Grand Duchess Cyril was made much of socially in New York and Washington. But it was evident that social recognition was all she got; if diplomats attended the functions they went as private citizens. She departed after a stay of ten days, her parting word being this: “All Russian factions will be united against the Soviet when the time comes.” .... The eastern habit of always having a canvass to walk in front of one in the public thoroughfares suited me very well; for modesty is seasoned by a display of force. It is agreeable to have under one’s orders a man armed with a kourbash which one does not allow him to use. I should not at all mind having the power of life and death without ever exercising it; and I should much like to own some slaves, in order to be extremely kind to them and to make them adore me.—Ernest At the banquet Gewtru. Wrangel asserted that his old “White Army” was by no means dead, declaring it would continue its organization “until the blot upon Russia’s honor placed there by the Bolshevists” had been wiped out. Other speakers were Bishop Tikhon of the Berlin diocese of the Greek-Russian church, representatives of the Union of Navai. Officers, the invalids’ organization, the National Federation of Russian Emigres, the Russian Monarchists’ federation and Russian emigre lawyers. A communique issued by the colony to the German press, which asserted that the "heads of the Russian emigre societies and Russian anti-Bolshevik organizations" welcomed General Wrangel was hotly represented by the Kerensky adherents, as the ex-premier's friends also having a "ourishing society." They declared the Wrangel group did not have a "crushing society." CROSS-WORD PUZZLE It is -'HO 1 7 1 o \ 9 | ■HMpo*" i Io MH|7| is 20 21 feg22 |23 I SSSES^ 7 25 _.'"~~ 29 ’ 30 35 37'fe|| ~ <o " ’” T?| ++ 10l* 5 __ ESSfe i '"3lpo “ s i -7 HIM 59 6 ° 6/ -Oska 631 fe^ s+ 6S MW66 67 IP £Wffla I I ' (Copyright, 1925.) Horizontal. 2 Small boat 6—Answer 11— Anger 12— A lament • 13— Conjunction 15— Rock IT—Eligible jurors 19— Note in musical scale 20— Heavy woolen fabric 22—Imitate 24—A surgeon’s cylindrical saw 20—An image 27 Misdeed 28— Quintessence 29 Glide 31—Reason 33 Web-footed birds 34 Wonder 36 Lamentation 38— Fabricated 39— 41—.Mesial plane 42 Came out 46—Make amends 48—Turret 50—Pleased expression 52 Debate 53—Wager 54 Open space 55 School master 58—Before 60—Large nails 61—Part of “to be” 62 Truck 64—Second cutting of hay 66 Provided that. 67 Period of time 68—Strife 69 Drive back 70— Shelters Vertical. Assure 3 A bird 4 A metal 5 Marsh *, T—Period of time 8— Flat bottomed boat 9 Lewd smile 10—One who prints 14—Stone 15— Emotional HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this puzzle will spell words both vertically and horizontally. The first letter in each word is indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the puzzle. Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will fill the white spaces up to the first block square to the right, and a number under “vertical” defines a word which will fill the white squares to the next black one below. No letters go in the black spaces. All words used are dictionary words, except proper names. Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical terms and obsolete forms are indicated in the definitions. OF By DON W. 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