RUSSIA.
INTRIGUES OF EMPRESS,
POLITICAL iNTEKFjGKENOK ASTONISHING REVELATIONS?. Received April 25, 10.15 p.m. 1 London, April 25,. The Moscow newspapers publish private telegrams between the Czaritza and the Czar in December and Marcli, while the Czar was. at the front. All the telegrams were in English, and sho-.v the Empress' active interference in. politics. One asked the Czar to stop immediately tho prosecution of 11. ManuilolV, Stunner's private secretary, who was accused of blackmail. The telegram ended: "This is absolutely necessary for your peace of mind." The Czar replied: "I will stop the case at once." Telegraphing on Marcli 12, the Czaritza said: "Yesterday's riots are shocking. Many troops have gone over." Later. in the day she telegraphed: "Strikes spreading. Troopß joining strikers. Some concessions unavoidable."'
The Czaritza sent an astonishing letter to Monk Rasputin, written in ungrammatical Russian, which says: "What a joy that you came to see us, to lay one's head on your shoulder, :o sfly nothing, but just to feel joy, peace and forgetfltlnefls! What heavenly bliss! Don't leayej am weak. I love you, have faith in you alone Your daughter. ■
Her grief at Rasputin's murder is refleeted in a number of the telegrams.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1917, Page 5
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