The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-20
Russian Diplomats No Longer
Conceal the Truth.
PRAYERS IN AL THE CHURCHES.
The Doomed Monarch Has bu. a Few
Days More 90 Live.
Relatives Hurrying 90 His Hedsiae-rhs
Princess Aiix. the C1arewiteh's Be-
trothed. on the wAy--An Europe in
Suspense over Approaching Changes.

don that is always drawn around the truth
by diplomacy was broken today when NJ.
De Stael, the Russian ambassador to Great
Britsin. admitted 10 the representative Of
the Associated Press that kilograms which
had been received at the embassy
preclude any hope that the in-
perial sufferer would ever again rise
from his bed. Baron MohFenhelm,
Russian ambassador 10 France. this morn
ing furnished the Paris Figaro with the
same unweieome news If this Is not suf-
ficient. the iiight Of court officials, the
forced and hurried journeys of. members of
the Russian imperial family across
Europe. the alarm OF the various courts,
the shivering bonrses and the prayers
offered up in the churches are irreiutable
testimony of the fact that the exar 10
dying.
Throughout the dav and evening rain
of kilograms has fallen in this city. Com
piled and sifted, they show the follow
ing facts: NJ. Benkendorif, the Russian
court chamberlain, has countermandsd
every order that has besn issued
in connection with the proposed
visit of the czar TO Corfu. Many
officials have started for Liviaia.
Princess Alix, the czarewitch's hctrothed,
will arrive at Talta, where the cEAr Is So
journing, on Monday. and she will pre-
cede. by few hours. Grand Duke Nladi-
mir. The Grand Duke Alexander arrived
in Paris today and left tonight on tho
Oriental express, which is due at Yalta on
Tuesday.
Around the cars palace today there
we're placed triple cordons of police and
soldiers, in order that no access could bs
had to the palace from without. and that
nothing from within could escape TO the
world, unless it hrst passed through the
erucihle of censorship. SO grave are the
issues depending upon the ears life that
even the people of Russia are obliged
to be satisfied. with curt bulletins, so
meager as TO suggest in every carefully
chosen word the theory of the worst. This
is the reading by the boarses, TO which tho
London stock market furnished prompt
echo. Russian securities declined from
weakness, but IL seems that the markets
everywhere were checked later by heavy
purchases which, it is reported. were made
on account of the Russian treasury. in
order to- prevent q panic. Thus the un-
easy feeling among financiers found its
fate.
Dispatches received from ST. Petersburg
report that the city tonight wears its usual
aspect, except that crowds OF people are
grouped about the places whore the bulie-
tins are posted.
The keenness of English sympathy has
been deepened by the news that a nerve
specialist has been called to the side OF the
cxarina. sister Of the Princess OF Wales,
who is herself threatened by the strain of
nursing the dying emperor.
From Cettinje, the capital OF Monte
negro, Prince Nicholas telegraphed the
czsrewitch this evening, saying: "In the
deep anxiety and pain which the news
from Lividia causes me, can only unite
my prayers with yours for a iengthcning
of the precious days OF my great aud noble
protector.
Today the churches throughout Russia
held special services for prayer for the re-
covery of his majesty. At St. Petersburg
the highest officials joined in solemn petit
tions to God TO save the czar. In the Rus
sian church In Paris services were also held
and were attended by Grand Duke Mich
ael NicolAiviteh. the staff of the Russian
embassy, President Casiinir Perier, Prime
Minister Dupny. and number of other
notabies. The services were marked with
deep emotion. The thoughts OF these
present must have flown ahead. asking,
s'When the czar is dead. what then2"
The Temps tonight answers the question
thus.
ION the day when his majesty passes
away the prestige Of Russia viii not be
diminished, neither viii the reasons
which have drawn her TO France b. weak
ened, nor the sentiments uniting tie two
peoples be altered. but Europe, as n moral
entirety, will have sustained an approcia-
bic loss. She will lack portion OF her
conscience. This Is great praise Tor q
prince. Alexander alone has merited II"
The question which the French aud
Germans, and even the Russians them
selves, are asking hourly. and to which
the bourses today suggested the common
answer was not pat in London quite 40
sharply. London admits that a serious
crisis 10 pending.
A dispatch from Vienna TO tho 7inses,
commenting upon the illness OF the czaT,
notes the outburxt of the Russian press
against Great Britain's attituds in
Eastern Asia. 1t is remarked in
Vienna that ss these attacks extend
to go many of the leading Russian
journals they must be prompted
by noted order somewhere, even
though the authorities themselves may
decline 10 accept the responsibility.
Without attaching undue Importance to
what has been said so far BY ths
Russian newspapers. IL would 10 Q
mistake not TO take IL into account.
venture 10 make this statement,
not because I profess TO know what
the future foreign policy Of Russia Is likely
TO be. bat because / happen TO be In pos.
session Of Trustworthy information con
csrning the present policy Of certain
other countries, which leads to tbs
conclusion that there 10 some shifting o.
base In the relations Of several OF the great
powers. Among themselves they mas
have more consequences Ia the presence o
a change OF rulers in Russia than il would
have had othsrwlss.
sr. PxrEKssuKs. Oct. IA dispatch
from Llyidia today announces that hh
condition has changed for the worse sincs
Yesterday, aud that the ifapsrial family IL
alarmed. A special dispatch recesye<
subsequently from Lividia says that ths
car suffered from q sudden spasu OF this
heart Lass evening which compelled hin