Grand Forks herald., 1916-12-30
'.Mad Monk" of Russia Repeats Tale
OF Intrigue; Iliodor, Once Cars
Confessor, Expects Separate Peace

the activities of Gregory Rasputin.
You can imagine what would have
happened had I been fool enough to
return to Finland. Instead, l sailed
for New York.
Now, I want to say some things
about Rasputin. He is the man who
named the late Count Sergius Witte
as one of the Russian peace commits
sioners at the conference in Ports
mouth, n. H.. and he is also the man
who. during those negotiations, tried
to break up the peace party and start
Russia fighting again.
The Austrian archduke whose as
sassination precipitated the present
war was killed on June 81, 1914. On
that day the czar was in the Crimea.
and Rasputin was with him. The next
day Rasputin began the blessing of
arms, which In Russia means getting
ready for war. Before leaving the
Crimea, Rasputin told officers of the
army that when they met again Rus
sia and Germany would be at war.
'In October of last year Goremekin
cided that he had to go, and Chvos-
toff, then minister of the interior.
sought the aid Of Rasputin in getting
the position. But Rasputin turned
Chvostoff down. He wanted a premier
who was in favor of immediate and
, separate peace between Russia and
Germany, and 80 he named q pro-
German. That man was Sturmer, who
was soul and body for separate peace.
"A few weeks ago came the down.
fall Of Sturrner and the appointment
of Trepoff as premier. 1t was printed
in the papers that Trepoffs appoint
ment was a victory for the Duma.
Such, however, was not the case. It
was a victory for England, which
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THE facts in the case of Rasputin
and the influences that put Sturmer
at the head of the Russian council Of
ministers were in the manuscripts of
the articles I wrote for the Metro
| politan magazine.
prior to tho suppression Of my
articles was called upon by an agent
of the British government and to him
told some of the facts in my pos
session concerning Rasputin. have,
may add, every reason to believe
scripts were in the possession of the
| British embassy. Those articles told
| all about Rasputin, his influences at
court, and his efforts for a separate
peace. Whether or not those facts had
anything to do with the displacement
of sturmer by Trepoff, and at the de-
mand of Great Britain, is another
|
conclusions"
To Print "Mad Monlz's'' Tale.
New York. Dec. 30.-The story of
M. Trufanoff, better known as lilo
dor. which was suppressed from re-
cent issue of the Metropolitan Maga-
zine, is to appear in installments in
The Daily Jewish Wahrheit.
1t was not until after the November
issue of the Metropolitan was on the
news stands that 1t became public tina,
the story had been suppressed at the
last minute, and that broad black
line on the front cover of the maga-
zine effaced a line which had read:
"Rasputin, the Sacred Devil Of Rus
sia." The cover depicted sinister
dark figure standing behind a girl. At
the top of the page the announcement
remained that the issue carried the
greatest story Of the year. After the
suppression Of the story Illiodor
sought in the supreme court to recov-
er his manuscript, and he finally got
it back on returning to the magazine
$4,000 which had been advanced on
payment for 1t.