The Condition of the Czar.
It seems to be incredible in theee days of rapid communication and unprecedented press en',erprhe that the true Btory in regard to the sudden death of Count Reutern, the adjutant to the Czar, has never yet been divulged. The firet report was to the effect that the Cz*r, in a moment of anger, had shot the General on account of that officer's r.ame having been mentioned in conneotion with a Grand Duchess of the lmporial family. The semi official version of the story is that a grave accident happened to Count lieu tern, resulting in his death. There was aleo a strange story in regard to the audden demise of General Yon Villaume, the German military attache at St. Petersburg, The " Pesthes Lloyd reiterates the former statement that the mental condition of the Czir causes the most intense anxiety in Russian imperial society, as the Emperor is not merely in constant dread ol assassination at the hands of the crowd, so to speak, but regards with suspicion even the highest tivjbles of the empire, and even his own relatives, whom he is constantly suspecting of conspiring againßt him. The only persom, indeed -as is reported with whom he feela absolutely at his ease are the Empress and his chileren, and some idea of the deeperate nature of the situation may be formed when the rumour is spread in the court circles of the Russian capital of the proposed deposition of the Czar, his Majesty's mental condition being *>"eh as to incapacitate him to conduct the affairs of the State with safety during the present crisis. It is stated, moreover, that the question was mooted in an interview recently held at Berlin between the Grand Duke Vladimir and the Emperor of Ger many, the latter monarch being urged to u?e all hie influence with the Romanoff family to bring about a change in the occupancy of the throne. A Kufsian regency would, "there is no doubt, be regarded by the courts of Europe as an additional guaranty of peace
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 130, 26 February 1887, Page 6
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343The Condition of the Czar. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 130, 26 February 1887, Page 6
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