A Curious Story.

Manawatu Herald, 30 July 1904, Page 3

A Curious Story.

The “ Moskovski Listnk,” states the Chronicle, contains a curious story contributed by a correspondent who heard it in the village of Talitsa. The story purports to be the experience of a diver who down to the bottom of the sea to inspect the sunken. Petropavlovsk. Ho saw Admiral Makaroffi and his officers and sailors all standing on the deck of the ill fated battleship, together with Father Alexis, the priest, who went down with her. They were singing and praying for the Czar, crying, “ Lord have mercy upon Thy people.” Then they all vanished, and the diver was left alone with Father Alexis, who drew nearer to hini and said: “Go back to daylight. Be silent for three days and three nights, and then tell everything you have seen and heard. Tell them that we are praying in the wilderness of the ocean. The Lord will hear our prayer and give strength to our Czar. Then the Petropavlovsk battered and Gripped, will rise from the bed of the sea with us all and Admiral Makaroff will hold a review of his fleet and command it to go to the Japanese capital to dictate peace to thq vanquished foe. And the whole fleet will sail past the Petropavlovak witn music, ‘ God save the fjzar.** Then, when the fleet has pa«pel ta# Petropavlovsk will sink sgqin plftrjy, slowly, with all,of, us, lip ts tss depth of the sea—-this time for sll sternal ages.**