Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-03-24
By the Associated Press.

| LONDON, March 24.-'"The Grand
Duke Nicholas Alexavitch," says
Times dispatch from Petrograd, was
banished to his estates in December
for telling Emperor Nicholas the truth
concerning the situation and for de-
nouncing the Rasputin scandal The
grand duke relates how he was moved
much more during the conversation
| than the emperor, and when, fearing
he had gone too far. he said to the en-
peror: Now call your cossacks: have
me killed and buried in your garden:
the emperor merely smiled and thanked
him.
"A few days later the emperor wrote
the grand duke q note ordering and
imploring him to retire to his country
seat. Before retiring to the country
the grand duke wrote a letter to the
emperor"
Warning Letter to Gear.
The text of the letter Is printed by
| the Times. Following are some extracts
from it: you have proclaimed ire
quently your will to continue the war
to a victorious end. Are you sure the
present condition Of the country per-
mits this? Are you acquainted win
| affairs within the empire. parucularly
| in Siberia, Turkistan and the Sa az =
casus? Do you hear the whole trutn
IL Your manner of choosing min,
listers was known in close circles ana
| things could muddle along, but When
| they became a matter Of pubic KNOW
edge and all classes talked about tnen'
it was a senseless attempt to continue
l IN In
often told me you could put falth IN
nobody and that you were being de-
ceived. If this is so, it applies par
ticularly to your wife, who loves YOU
rounded by evil-minded inttmates, her
words are the product Of skillful ma
chinations, not of truth If you are
powerless to liberate her from these
of the intriguers who are using your
wife as their instrument
| Your first impulses are always re-
markedly true, but as soon as other
influences supervene you begin to
waver."
After appealing to the emperor to
remove the interference of the dark
forces" and assuring him that he will
| thereby regain the confidence of the
people which you have aavs,1 forfeited the
II have long hesitated to tell you
the whole truth, but decided to do so
| after being convinced by your mother
| and sisters that 1t must be done. You
| are on the eve of new troubles, on the
| eve of attempts on your life"
A Prisoner Awaiting Fate.
| A dispatch to Reuters Telegram
| Company from Petrograd says:
"Eyewitnesses of the last scene at
Mohilev before the former Emperor
| Nicholas departed for Tsarskoe-Selo
describe the former Dowager Empress
! Maria Feodorovna as like a block of
| marble, sadly watching the departure
| of her fallen son through the closed
windows Of her railway carriage.
Besides Nicholas and his wife and
| family there are about $50 occupants of
| the palace at Tsarskoe-Selo, including
| two or three ladies-in- waiting and two
doctors. Mile. Viruvova, one of the for
mer empress ladieS-in-waiting, still
| has the measles in the palace. She was
the patroness of the mystic monk Ras-
putin and arch-intriguer and worker
| upon the imperial weaknesses and su-
perstitions.
THE coffin of Rasputin was disin-
tered at Tsarskoe-Selo yesterday, and
| is lying on a truck there pending it's
removal elsewhere for burial.
Gen. Baron Fredericks, former minister
of the imperial house. has been brought
before the duma- He received a hostile
reception on his arrival at the railway
station in Petrograd.
All Deceived by Protopopoff.
Facts thro--ing more light on the part
played by former Minister of the Interior
Protopopof in deluding the emperor and
his fellow ministers are becoming more
numerous. Apparently 1t was not until
guards and Cossacks began revolving that
Premier Golitzine and others realized the
falsity of Protopopoff's assurances that
there was nothing in the movement, and
it was too late when they excluded him
from their councils. Patriotic proclama-
tons are still the order of, the day from
the government and individual minister's
especially the war minister, to social or
CARNATIONS. All these proclamations are
Of one sense. dealing with the necessity
for unremitting work and strict discipline
If Russias enemies are to be overcome.
I'm your hands" says a cabinet mani
festo, Lies the fate of national liberty
The enemy Is straining to profit by any
disorganization of the accumulated great
Russian forces on the Russian front. With
the advent Of spring he will release his
numerous fleet and consequently menace
the capital. His victory would be VIC
tory over free Russia A Prussian victory
would deprive the Russians of all their
liberties and restore to power the emperor
Of the enslaved people
THE new liberty loan will be for
lHTee DliiloE TuDleS at . per cent. Inc
loan will be issued at IS.
1T has been decided to abolish the
fogging and claiming Of inmates of
prisons
Tho Petrograd nobility has adhered
to the new government"
No Longer Dead Weight.
Foreign Minister Milukoff has out
lined the attitude of the new Russian
government in foreign affairs to num-
Der of Petrograd and Moscow journal
lists. A Reuter- dispatch from Petro-
grad quotes the foreign minister as
saying: I'VE shall remain faithful to
all past alliances similar to that with
our allies. which will be still further
strengthened and become still more
cordial and sincere. The change in re-
glme will disperse the distrust our al
lies had right to feel toward the late
government. 1t is Russia's duty to con-
tinue the struggle brilliantly both for
her own liberty and that of all Europe.
BY the change in regime we def
nitely won the sympathy of neutrals,
especially Sweden. while Finland,