Evening star., 1923-05-08
Rumanian Grown Jewels Saved
By Former Prize Fight Promoter

,rapsnor, mission to the land OF the
czars. The record of his adventures
there would make a volume OF nd
ture to stir the heart of every Brit-
isher- and especially of every irish
man. with pride. and assurediy no
one did more to enhance the prestlse
of Great Britain's name in Russia
in Rumania, and all along ane coast %
the Black sea- than Joe Boyle.
He undertook on behalf of the
British government the chlValrouS
mission of ensuring the salety, anu
of organizing the escape OF me
widowed empress mother OF Russia'
of her daughters, the grandducnesses
Xenia and Olga, with their children'
and of the one-time Generanssimo
Grandduke Nicholas Nicholiovitch'
from their captivity at faita, JUS
in time to save them from the 1a1e
which was meted out to the czaI
and czarina and their children ana
to so many other members or tne
reigning family, and to whlch theS
had already been condemned ns 'he
bolshevih authorities at Moscow.
Making use of British. and es
necially of Rumanian airplanes, ne
would fly freely into Russia, arraSed
in his British uniform. and on land-
ing would give pre-emptory oraers
TO the local bolshev1ki author1'les
in perfect Russian. and with sucn an
air of imperious command, tnat tneN
were at once obeyed without demuf,
no matter how extraordinary. ana
with every token of extreme defer
ence and with the awe struck words
Slushaius. vas1e vysokorokie Il obey
most highborn one), followed by the
words, 'Not cholovick' (What NAM.
That is why the quiet obsequies Of
this splendid type of an almost leg
endary hero. of this ex-Yuken miner,
and of this one-time associate or
professional pugilists and promoter
of prize fights were made the occa-
sion of such unusual manifesto
ton of regret, of admiration and OF
profound gratitude by. theFwidowed
empress mother of Russla-' VINO IS
now in England; by Queen Marie. ny
a number of other members of the
Russian, Rumanian and English reign
ing families.
It is to be hoped that some or THOSE
who knew him best ana VINO wess
war and it's aftermath will pup into
print and on to permanent Record
the stirring story of his adventures'
SO many of them suggestive or me
the pen Of a Rudyard Kiplirg TO do
them any adequate justice. -
An attempt has been made to insist
that those monster guns of the Ger
mans, known as the "big berthass
and which dropped deathrdealing
shells into the city of Paris. from "a
distance of some ninety miles, near
Laon. never really existed, and that
the damage done in Paris was eff
fected, not by gunfire, but by some
local explosions. But the War De-
partment at Washington has on f1le
reports of some of its officers who ac-
tually saw several of these big ber-
thas in 1919 at the great Skoda ord
nance and steel works in Austria, and,
moreover, has the report of the
French airman who discovered the
whereabouts Of the guns within TWEEN
ty-four hours and dropped bombs on
them, killing and gravely Wounding
nearly every member OF the crew or
German naval petty officers who were
manning the two guns, under the
command of an admiral. There is no
doubt whatsoever about the guns, the
range .of which was increased by an
additional tube of some thirty me-
ters, having been in actual existence
and operation in the last year OF the
conflict. and to insist that they were
q mere pigment of imagination is
ridiculous.