The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-15
First Czarists, Repeat
eddy, Then the Boil
sheviki, JailedH Him or
Drove Him Out for
HisLiberalOpinions

here, banlshed 10 the rpmnier provinces
IF Russia without trial With his wife
and infant son he JOurneyPd TO Turkestan,
where for the next ten wears he devoted
himself 20 his writing and to teaching
artillery to the frontier garrisons. In
spite of the surveillance of the police and
of his commanding officer he had good
enough time.
of summers, with his wife. his little son
and some sixty soldiers, he would go far
INTO the steppes with the garrison horses
To pasture. There Olga Feodorovna
learned TO love the open country. and she
used. in the times of peace before the
Bolsheyiki came. 10 work III her garden,
.nlst outside kiev.
In Turkestan they explored an old cave
and found there mysterious, picturesque
tale skeleton, and under the guidance of a
friendly Sart they forded unknown
streams and hunted hons.
Prisoners Stirred Pity.
While there he visited Ss,marcand.
where they had Just found in the sands
some old gold remnants of jewelry. In
Bokhara he saw prisoners bound together
wrist to wrist, hundreds in the prison
courtyard. And his pity for prisoners
increased. 50 that he said he was muck
pleased when made a member of the Rus
sian division for locating and helping war
prisoners. In Switzerland they endeav-
nred to establish quicker communications
with the several countries, so that the pep
pie might hear sooner whether their men
were prisoners. and where.
His own brother. Colonel in the Rus
sian army, was killed early in 1915, at the
head of his men. when ordered to an at
tack without the proper barrage prote.-
ton. His son, an officer In a Ukranian
air squadron, is Il graduate of the scieil-
tifc school in Liege, Belgium. OF him
Gen. Oberoueheff has had no word. And
when he reads of Ukranian officers being
shot by the BOlsheviki he is not sure his
son has escaped.
"He is my son, my eomrade and my
friend, he SAYS.
All hulCiIVdH ITOiu
Poland was here one day. She was griev-
ing over her son, who was sent to Geor-
gia camp, and said how terrible she felt
when he sent his clothes home.
you ought to be glad,' the General
told her, "that your son is allowed to
fight in the glorious cause of freedom.
America has given you the freedom and
opportunity you would never otherwise
have had. do not understand why you
all would not rush TO crush the threat:
ening foe"
Devoted Life to journalism.
At the end of his Ten years exile he
was permitted to return to kev, where
again he devoted himself to journalism.
In 1905, when the first revolution began,
he had been translating three books on
militia, two French, one German. Ober-
oucheff had been interested in the Swiss
militia, which he considers a model for
the world. 1t was his opinion, and still
is, that militia is the true solution of the
disarmament problem, and that its main
tenance should be one of the terms Of final
peace. He considers that militia is for
defence and not for aggression, as regular
armies are.
Writing about militia was one Of sew
eral thousand things forbidden in Russia
at the time And Gen. Sokhomlinoff, mil
itary commander in chief of Kiev. held
opposite opinions to Oberoucheff's; more
over he upheld the Czarist Government.
Hence Oberoueheff was again exiled to
Turkestan. They gave him this as all
alternative to resignation from the army,
which he didn't want TO do, so he went to
Turkestan.
Here, again instructor for the artil-
lery, he travelled the deserts, where ne
declared he roasted eggs in the sun heated
sands. He stayed six months, riding about
2, 900 miles, and finding this the hardest
th;no in life