DISASTER PROPHESIED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 78, 6 August 1913, Page 4

DISASTER PROPHESIED.

Many people will remember the story of the prophecy made to the German Emperor's grandfather about ''the fatal year 1913," which was to see the downfall of the German Empire. The "American Theosophist" has published a similar prophecy, which it pretends was made by Count Tolstoy shortly before his death, and sent by him to the Tsar, the Kaiser, and the King of England. Tolstoy stated that "the great conflagration" would start about 1912, the first torch being lit in South-eastern Europe; it would develop in the year 1913 into a destructive calamity. He continued: "I see Europe in flames and bleeding, and hear the lamentations of huge battlefields.' But about the year 1915 a strange figure enters the stage of the bloody drama. He is a man of little military training, a writer, but ho will hold most of Europe in bin grip until 1925. He is already walking the earth, a man of affairs.'.' Appearing in an American paper, it can only refer to Mr Roosevelt, a writer in the "Manchester Guardian" says. After Armageddon and 1925 the greater part of the Old World will form a Federation of the United States of Nations is a further prediction.