The sun., 1918-10-16
An Interesting Visitor.

An interesting Visitor.
DIR. E. ]. Dillon; the Russian cor
respondent Of the London Daily 7'ele-
graph, has landed at an Atlantic
port, according to the Government
censor, and Is now commorant at a
hotel in this city on his way to the
Pacific coast and thence to Siberia,
where he is to resume his Journals
tic work. His prediction, which we
published yesterday. to the effect that
Russia can he aroused out of the
comatose condition into which she
has fallen, Is Of more than ordinary
Interest; for there Is probably no
foreigner now living who knows Rus
STA more thoroughly or intimately
than DIR. DILLON.
His title Of Doctor is not medical
but literary. He first went to Rus
sia many years ago, after studying
the Slav languages at the UNIVERSE
ties Of Innsbruck and Leipsic. In
his book entitled 1.-THE Eclipse Of
Russia" published this year by the
Doran Company, there Is a chapter
Of personal recollections, from which
It appears that the first period of his
sojourn in the dominiOns of the Car
was spent In the Ukraine. where he
acquired the language Of the prov
lnce. His subsequent career Is sum
married. thus:
Since then I lived and worked for
years in close contact with the liberal
movement under three Tsars, and in
various capacities as a student. as q
graduate of two Russian faculties and
universities. as professor of compare
tive philology at the University OF Khar-
koff. as the author of several literary
and scientific works, as leader writer
of two Russian newspapers and editor
OF one. as representative Of the Daily
Telegraph and adviser to my eminent
friend Count WHITE"
This photographed statement
conveys some idea of the oppOrtuni-
ties which DIR. DIhLoS has enjoyed
to learn Russia through and through
The book from which we quote 1t Is
full of interest, as disclosing the OBJ
servations and conclusions of a care
full and most competent student Of
Russian life and character. During
his long residence In the country the
author has met most Of It's leading
men; and he has personally wit
messed some Of the stirring events
which he describes. One OF these
was the assassination Of PLEHvE, the
Public Prosecutor Of the Empire, who
was largely responsible for inducing
the Emperor NICHOLAS II. to make
war upon Japan.
~ we'll remember seeing him killed.
Ny droshky was in tho street leading
to the Warsaw railway station when
two men on bicycles glided past. fol-
lowed by a closed carriage. which
recognized MS that OF the all powerful
Minister Suddenly the ground before
me quivered, tremendous sound as
of thunder deafened me, tho windows
Of the houses on both sides OF the broad
street ratified and tho glass OF ths
panes was hurled on TO the stone pave
ment- A dead horse. a pool of blood.
fragments of a carriage and a hole In
the ground were parts of my rapid i'm
pressions My driver was on his knees
devouty praying and saying that the
end of the world had come, got
down from my seat and moved toward
the hole. but a police officer ordered me
back. and to my questions replied that
the Minister PIEHvE had been blown TO
frasmentsi I"
The man who contrived the plot
against PLEHvE which was thus exc
cuted was the Infamous spy AzEFF,
who was at the same time In the SER
vice OF the Russian Government and
member of the Social Revolution
airy Council. DR.. DILLON devotes a
chapter of his book to this extraordi.
nary character and to Father GAPoS,
the popular leader who was Mt the
head of the demonstration on Bloody
Sunday tJanuary 2e, 1005) and was
almost worshipped by the working
men, whom he misled.
Like AzEFF, Father GAPoN was
faithless to his friends. who eventu-
aly hanged him. RAsprTIN, the dis
solute monk, whose sinister influence