CZAR MOVED TO TEARS.
REFUSES TO BETRAY HIS COUNTRY. United Service. ' Received March 23, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, March 22. At the outbreak of the revolution three generals were accompanying the Czar in a train towards iPctrograd. When informed of the actual position, the Czar wept and said he would submit to the will of the people, if thereby he did not jeopardise his wife and son. He added that he would be glad to liv? on his estate at Livada, as he loved trees and flowers, and it was his deepest wish to end his dnvs there.
General VoietukolV urged the Czar to go to the battle front opened at Minsk, and that the Germans should be allowed to invade Russia, because tlic Kaiser was warring against democrats, not Czardom, but Nicholas indignantly declared he would never betray Russia.
THE CZARITZA'S CORRESPONDENCE. SEPARATE PEACE MOVE CONFIRMED. Reuter Service. Received March 23, o.lii p.m. Petrograd, March 22. AH members of the dynasty have placed themselves at the disposal of the Government. The ex-Ministers will he tried in .Tuly. The death penalty is to be abolished. The Bourse Gazette states that the correspondence between the Czaritza and M. Protopopoff proves the Germanophile tendencies of the late Government, and confirms the efforts of the adherents of the old regime to conclude a separate peace with Germany.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1917, Page 5
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