The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-02
GOOD TINES IN
RUSSIAN PRISON
Continued rom page II

I food served him Eas satisfactory. He
exhibited bread which was really bet
ter than that ssrTed 10 the general
( public Besides good meals, he ex-
( planned he and other prisoners got
{ Tea three times daily and were Per-
uittsd 10 smoke and choose their own
wo-E
AS a politician, / am a conserva-
tive rcyalist-" he added, but person
ally ! thank the day when the Boil
shsytki came into power I am the
goat OF others, Of the entire system
I o. czsrsm- Despite my monarchist
convictions, do no. believe czarism
has chance OF being revived
Then after a pensive moment, he
Continued:
The entire world 1. perishing.
Mankind and culture are being de-
srroyed. Where viii salvation come
from"
One o, ny co-visitors interjected
why not try socialism,"
Z PERHAPS" Sokhtnrinon. replied
( lagtiagly. Il do not know / am IN
able to follow the world situation in
prison"
/ Despite his crimes. the spectacle Of
sukhoulino- repentant, was one 10
create sympathy The former minis
ter offered uz cigarettes and then re-
turned TO his Eork table He hesitat-
I'd q moment and then volunteered,
| With z faint smile.
! am also % the proletariat. Ny
entire Vroper-y has been confscated"
| We bsde the general goodbye.
/ The cell Of Schenur. another Of the
Eonarchists accused with Sukhonlin-
1 Of -es nezt visited He was excited
! and dcwnhezred. appreheasiTe over
/ the ordeal u his trial which IS due
Tery soon. While In the cell soldier
guard brought Ug an invitation TO Tis-
( it n EoIiEcr, who is suspected o, hav-
{ ing engineered the murder Of Kokosh-
kin and Shin garer, rvo former Kerr
ensky ministers. shot down fort
night ago.
/ We found Rolfko. man % gigantic
/ size vita deep set piercing eYes. AD-
soIg-eiy Hli,erare, ne gave the fupres-
sion Of z strong. healthy animal
y called you 70 say that I an limo
cent" ne explained. AZ We stood il
the co-Ttdar we met the Aenshevik
ftminimalistJ Leader voisinski. out tax
ing his constitutional. re PASSED u
proudly By, refusing 10 talk
As We went On down the corridor,
we met AyskentieT, former provisional
government leader Of the social reyoI-
= iutionaries. He shook hands cheerfuIly
: and talked in German. Ag he left he
called back:
"Adieu until meet yog ct the In
: ternationalist socialist conTesg."
4, Next we entered the cell u former
: Foreign Minister Teregchenko. which
: Tereschenko shared with the former
9 provisional minister ot finance. Bern
e adtsky. We found Kereusky'g former
, foreign minister tall. polished man,
with statesmanlike attitude, and proud
clear eyes. He Immediately launched
. into political discussion. He had
just read Trotsky's second speech 10
= the Russian pan-soviet, in which the
- Bolsheviki foreign minister revealed
- the possibility Of separate Ueace,
Iereschenko violently attacked Trot,
'e sky's viewpoint
70 His policy is absolutely against
IL russian Interests" he declared at
g is illogical and impractIcable Gen.
arate peace would be a misfortune for
- RUSSIA and for the entire world I
y, tried my hardest 10 prevent This
-, Both Tereschenko and Berentakv
~ were very pessimistic over the future
III OF Russia. '
In the next cell we found " Pur,gb.
kevitch. a noted anti-serni+ic I'D.
and reputed as the actual slsvar 10 ~
b. mad monk, Rasputin He wsg
D. small, we'll set man, with piercir,, 49,
Dc and apparently about fifty
He greeted us in the corrido-
'cheerfully invited US inside his cell n