"TO BERLIN IN 1917."
PROPHECY BY AN OFFICER. Depressed because he could not indulge in trench exercises like younger officers, and fearing that he might have to resign his commission, Lieut. Wm. George Mark Russell, aged 43, of the 4th Middlesex Regiment, shot himself in a railway carriage at Waterloo station last month. A brother-in-law said at the inquest that Russell served through the South African war, and for nine or ten years in India. Latterly he had seemed depressed about the war. “ I have a note,” said the witness, “in which he made out the six periods ot the war, and as things have turned out they are quite according to what he wrote. Witness produced a sheet of foolscap aud the coroner, alter perusing it, remarked, “The last two periods read : “ Retreating battle on the Rhine to last till February, 1916. “ March to Berlin ; negotiations for peace, withdrawal of troops. T 9 T 7“It is all going to come right In the end, according to this,” added the coroner. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1481, 4 December 1915, Page 4
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180"TO BERLIN IN 1917." Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1481, 4 December 1915, Page 4
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