The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-01

body, but not in the usual way It is announced that the gems are not offered for sale by refugees from Russia or from any other country; nor is the sale due to lack of money on the part of the owners
 The Russian Red Cross has announced that it's head is Count Ignatieff. formerly minister of the interior under the Car, and that it's delegate in immediate Charge is Baron Raush, formerly councillor al the Russian embassy in London. who married granddaughter of Alexander Ili Its director general is Prince Yusupoff
 Prince Yusupoff's palace in Petrograd, containing Humps of jewelry" and paint ings worth hundreds of thousands of dol lars, was taken from him by the 5ol abe viks year ago and Yusupon himself suc- ceedel n escaping over that Russo Fin nish frontier where the bolshevi<i are likely to shoot ct once from behind and the Finns are equally likely to shoot at once from in front
 THE END OF RASPUTIN
 It vas he vno shot Rasputin three years ago. The notorious monk was invited, ac- cordng to a widely told story, by M. purishkovitch, q prominent member of the right wing of the first duma, and Prince Yusupoff. to supper party under the supposition that he would make the | aCQutittNdiiNt (i i&thOuS ANh7f7iaNtf beauty. He was fed poison enough to kill three dogs" which had been pus in small rink cakes, the white cakes which were not poisored, being reserved for the remainder of the guests The ab- sence of the beauty whom he had ex- pected to meet, irrtated him, however. and, despite tte poison he had taken. he was able to getsup from the table early and start to lave the supper party. As i -l,o& M rtc1tl n and tumbled to the floor. The guests fled to m upper story.
 Ten minutes later Prince Yusupon re- turned alone to discover what the effect or Purishkovitch's s shot had been. Rasputhl was rising from the floor At sight or Yusunc1 he attempted to run. when he was brought down by second shot anu his limp body yas 1~.rried out and ourieo beside the Neva- Two days later, it was discovered and removed It had frozen and the white eyeballs of the dead monk starel about as the stiff corpse was taken away.
 The sight nearly drove Yusupoff mad, his friends Say.
 Today Purishkovitch is an exile n Paris and Yusunoff is an exile in Londoh' running Russian Red Cross workshop NOBLE LADIES IN EXILE Countess Carlow was the morsahus wife CT the tdtc NIIdHu DuhV Ct burg -Schwerin and one of the larscS' land owners of old Russia,
 The Grand Duchess Marie. another oi the knitters at the Russian Red Cross. divorced a Swedish prince before the war and came to London six months ago from Petrograd. where she had been running small tobacco shop in the Nevsky Prospect.
 The Grand Duke George, whose younger | k. !. v-fA cit = stantine of Greece who is now in exile in Switzerland, took 10 days to grow a beard in order to disguise himself, and reached London four months ago from Finland. aae
 Countess Pahlen. a cousin of Prince Yusupoff who escaped from Odessa when it was captured from the bolsheviki. is knitting at the Russian Red Cross for s9 week Her husband was a major in the horse guards at Petrograd until 1t was disbanded by the bolsheviks. He collected remnant of p of his officers and commanded them under Denikin un- til his wife's health had been so impaired by her sufferings under the bolshevis regime in Odessa that he took her. after the fall of Odessa to Constantinoole and thence. via Malta, to London. He ex- poets to return to Denikin as soon as the situation takes favorable turn.
 Princess BelosselslSy Belozerski, whose father was an A. D. c. to the Czar. is another famous member of the Russian colony in London, but her sufferings in escaping the bolshevik regime have been such IS to leave her paralyzed. Her name. in Russian, means The White Village by the White Lake. and she comes of one of the oldest of Russian families.
 PRINCESS THRILLING ESCAPE
 Mime. Nilzea Letzinska, formerly Prin- cess Sakova, is a recent addition to the London colony. She escaped from Rus sia by selling her jewels and forging q passport. Dressed as a peasant and pos ing as the wife of a bolshey,ll soldier she passed the frontier zone partly by train and partly by road. obtaining occa- sional lifts on peasants carts. Her story with minor variations, is the same as the stories told by every other member Of the Cyarist colony here
 My. daughter and I left Petrograd over two months ago disguised as conn try people. We had been put down as of 8 category in Petrograd, and our al- 1 lowance of bread was less than one-tenth Of a pound per day. That. with some onions, and weekly ration of fat. pota- tees and dried beans. was all we could get My home in Petrograd during the first part of the war was transformed into
 
 my own expense. This lasted I'D to the time of the Kerensky Government Then was considered suspect and my house was raided and partly set on fire
 T managed to give French lessons in the house of a member of the Bolshe- vik government. a Jew from Tichvin who now occupies the beautiful peace of Prince Abimeiek. I had two pupils. a boy of eight and a girl of ten, and, in addition to teaching them French, had to do all kinds of odd work and to help. in the hardest part of her tasks, the maid who was looking after them.. who. being a working woman, belonged to 1 category. &
 When my daughters health kept get ting worse I sold some jewelry I had who distributed all she had when she felt her end was coming, to friends in need.
 T dressed my girl as a peasant and wrapped myself in very shabby clothes thing that did not prove very difficult. Both my girl and I talk nuently the dialect of the upper Dyina region, having been brought up at our country house near Kotlas.
 That saved us. I declared that my husband. a soldier in the bolshevik army, had been killed and that I wanted to go back to my village Little by little. partly by train and partly by cart. we reached Lake Omega. Four or five times we thought we were lost
 Being doubtful about our passports. the bolsheviki made my daughter and myself undergo a separate examination to see if we contradicted each other. Through Finland we finally reached Sweden and embarked at Stockholm for