EX-CZARINA WORKED FOR GERMANY DURING WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3461, 15 April 1920, Page 3

EX-CZARINA WORKED FOR GERMANY DURING WAR.

Dr H. V; ~Wollison, of New York, was dentist for over th_il'ty years to the family ‘of the late Czar of Russia. For the first time he has conveyed to the public. his imprcsions of the .Romanofi':s, and. although he reveals nothing that is not already well known, he emphasises the attitude of the unfortunate Czarina in a’Wa.V that confirms the worst as to her intriguing on behalf of reactionary statesmen in Germany. Dr Wollison is, at the same time, evidently quite fair to the Czarina. “She was,” he st.au'~,-s, a. far more lik« able woman than people who had never seen her and who knew nothing of Russian court. life seem to think. It was impossible when one was with her to believe the scandal that was abroad uhout her relations with Madam Wiraboff and with the monk, Rasputin, whose mistress Madanl Wiretboff was Supposed originally to have

been. _ 3 . SENT FILES OF MONEY TO ‘ GERMANY. t “To one who met her as I met her; she was exceedingly charming, and Madam Wiraboff, for that matter, was a fat, jolly, likable sort of a girl, al, though rumour had it, and facts substantiated the supposition, that she was one of the greatest. intriguantes about the court. The Czarina wasl German clear through and tln-ouglri There was no mistaking that, and it‘ was through her that. the Germans gained most of their influence at‘ court. She sent untold‘ sums of. money into Germany during the *.var."’§l Dr Wollison did not entertain at high opinion of the Czarevitch. “He: was all mischief,” he declares, al-5 though. the incident he sllpplies illus-i trative of his precocity suggests the: jolly rather than the petulant, anemic 3 creature that he is generally suppos-’ ed to have been. V 1 “Not long before the Czar began' his last journey,” Dr Vvollison re‘ lates, “from general headquarters to‘ Petrograd, he was at headquarters‘ ‘with his father. Several of the gen-1 ‘erals of the Czarls staff were having} luncheon in "the garden at headquar-1 ters and poring over problems ofi strategy as they ate, when suddenly‘ a great stream of water struck; squarely in the middle of the table} and then was plied about the heads? and shoulders of members of His Im-; perial Majesty’g high command. The young Czarevitch had found the garden ‘hose and a faucet to which to at.ltach it, and was making havoc of the Iluncheon. ’ “The four daughters of the Czar and Czarina were dell"ghti'~.;l girls, Olga. was a bit of a. blue stocking. Marie was a. great. German volkyrie. Tatania was a more quiet, domestic sort and ‘Anastasia was lovely, the very sweetest of them all. /4 It neems a dreadful thing that such a wholesome family of girls should have met so sad a fate.” The Czar was far too gentle to be a ruler, inaintajns Dr Wollison. Toward the last of the war Russia. was so ’seeped in German influence that he could find no sum_)ort. for his measures anywhere, and even when he did make suggestions or issue commands they were rarely carried out.