Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-09
.,,onst 11.-lCorrespondence

.huoo of the men forming keren- orv,s new cabinet are known outslae ss' sf pnssia, but one at least Is very uo,1 known in Paris, as oe1ore the wa1ntion wen he lived in France for searlv sl twelve years-Boris SavlnKo11' nea' ,ndorsecretary of the Russian war department. oo ,,oo,, o,a how.
 hoon horn in January. 1873, at lns .ow where his father was a mag .a wa.sa His mother belonged to an n1d , Ukraine family, fact whlch mas 'a .., ;mnortance at the present moment. 1as ns.;s % passed through the Warsaw :eh no, school and went to Petrograd lisn sn.,dv law He immediately began lo aoanda work-entirely Of a pa .e;a nature-among the workers. He c'a, 'as crested and shut up at Schlus- NaS .,Soro His father, Il man of liberal e.D 4 ;, 0 m way revolutionary tenden- uus u;os c came to his aid, and his words to eis0' e,s son. "Whatever happens, never n uas for pardon!" were never forgot fen by the latter. ,nou., V without trial savinoff was deported vologda. in the extreme north of ,,xonean Rusia, where he lived r.u.tE r.;otv with his wife and child. There was visited by the famous grand sather " h of the revolution. Madame nrsshkovskaya, ouss who asked him to so;n terrorist organization. After o o;ng year to consider, he agreed. qa yas then ready to give up his hourg m life-he was then not quite 23 to break the Romanoff yoke. He a,caned from Russia and reached Geneva. where he got in touch with ha famous Azeff- afterwards shown hv Bourtseff to be an agent of the IS revolutionary.
 savinkoff and his friend from boy boods days, Kalayeff, returned to pnsia to prepare the removal Of he nrime minister, Plehve. When his was effected, it was the turn ot Grand Duke Serge, and other plots Followed, ,twenty-two in all, some sue cessful, others failures.
 Escapes From Fortress,
 Eventually, after Savinkoff had talk an an active part in tae 1905 reVolu- i'm. the day came when he was ar rested. and he was shut up in the Sebastopol fortress, it seemed inn nossible to escape execution. Thanks ko his brother-in-law, Silberberg-a Revolutionary assissinated later by Igents of the emperor-Savinkoff sue eeded in escaping the very evening kefore he was to be executed by neans which cannot yet be described, nd took refuge in France, determin- d to devote the rest of his life to literature.
 When Azeff was unmasked, Savln- off returned to Russia, where price had been put on his head, and passed year hunting for the spy in order to make him pay the penalty ot ms reachery. But the emperors police look care of their agent and Savln- of returned to France, unavengea. He lived at San Reno and then at Nice. giving himself entirely up to writing.
 When the war broke out, he hur' Tied to France and preached, with his ben, crusade against unclaimed bar barism, glorifying the country he owed so passionately, France in arms.
 The Russian revolution took him back to his native land, where as commissioner to the armies he strug- gled with all his might against the Reorganization which threatened to hullify the revolutions work. He was the man who had the courage, at
 moment when it needed courage, to demand the restoration of the death penalty for towards and traitors.
 Gustave Herve, editor of Le Victor e, was one of Savinkoff's Paris friends. He tells how Savinkoff at the beginning of the war, sought his bid to be engaged, in the foreign le. eion, although Russian prisoners had left his health in a state that made bis enlistment impossible. A dep utation of young Russian revolution bries living in Paris, came to beg the editor to prevent .s&rinkoff from vol pnteering. Keep him for Russia, for us," they pleaded; ,'rhe is one of our greatest hopes aId we will give you live hundred volunteers, in his place, although your foreign legion is not altogether a pleasing souvenir for ls,"
 For those who do not understand the last words, it may be explained that the old-time legionaries are fond Ct accusing Russians and Poles of en, listing for the sake of being fed and clothed
 Gustaye Herve explains that he had never felt like asking Savinkoff any "details about his participation in the execution Of Plehve and the, Grand 'uke Serge, but when Savinkoff was leaving for Russia last March they has
 farewell lunch together, at which nc ene else was present except Madame eavinkoff. Savinkoff then described now, in broad daylight, in crowded St' Petersburg street, he had placed nls team of terrofists. in position, a certain intervals and how George' Sazonoff Ca boyhS0d friend of Savin koff) had thrown ,theibomb which de stroyed the minister's carriage de spite it's armor plates and assassin ated Plehve. He told how he leanes OVer SaZOnnff who hodi fointnd hay