RUSSIAN SUES RUSSIAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 483, 12 October 1928, Page 9

RUSSIAN SUES RUSSIAN

PRINCE YOUSSOUPOFF AND KERENSKY HISTORICAL FIGURES (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and X.Z. Press Association) Reed. 1 a.m. PARIS. Thursday. Because a newspaper, the manager and editor of which is a former Premier of Russia, Alexander F. Kerensky, published articles which he considered libellous. Prince Felix Youssoupoff has brought an action in the Paris Correctional Court. M. Kerensky refused to divulge the author’s name. He sought to appease Prince Youssoupoff by inserting corrections, but the Prince insists on the case proceeding. Reported to have killed the ‘•black! monk.” Rasputin, Prince Felix Youssoupoff has come again into the pi/blic eye lately, for Rasputin’s daughter, Marie Grigorievna Solovieff, has find a milliondollar libel suit in the Paris courts against him and the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch. Alexander Feodorevitch Kerensky was in power in Russia, being Premier and leader of the army, in 1917. During October of that year the power of the Bolsheviks increased, though Kerensky formed a new Cabinet composed of Socialists and moderates for the purpose of uniting Russia. Trotsky denounced this Government, and on November S he and Lenin carried out a coup d’etat. Kerensky fled, and eventually escaped from Russia, appearing in London in June, 191 S.