HOW THE CZAR TRAVELS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 606, 15 November 1881, Page 3

HOW THE CZAR TRAVELS.

Ludwig Hartman, the .Nihilist, who

fled born Russia to escape the results of the attempt to blow Up the Imperial radroad with the Czar on hoard, has furnished the New York Herald with a long account of the operations of the land of conspirator to which he belonged in the course of which he gives the following account of the precautions taken to seeme to the safety of the Emperor while travelling by railway. First of all two routes were drawn out by the ministry of the Imperial Gou t—a false one, published in tlio papers, and a true on* 1 . hehl in the profoundest sccresy. Nevertheless the lattor was well known to us. The newspapers are forbidden to publish anything about the Czar’s journey beyond what appeared in the Official Messenger, While the Czar was passing through a telegraph district, tiie operators in that district were forbidden to forward any private messages whatever. During the passage of the Czar’s train the stations were cleared of all persons not belonging to the railway officials. The Czar was accnrauank-d on the road by two other trains besides his own. On small stations in the mi Idle of the

steppe he passed from one train to the other, from one car to another, “ flying I'ke a bird,” one of our agents wrote If he stopped in some town by tlie way be always sent on his open carriage with bis coachman, his dog, and his second self, a certain General Annenkoff, who resembled the late ('zar very strikingly* while he himself took unostentatiously a seat in one of the following carriages by the side ot one of his generals. Thus it happened that Kharkoff, for instance, that the troops rendered military honors to, and the crowd cheered the carriage in which but the dog and the cook of were seated, On each side of the track soldiers and police officers are posted at a hundred yards di flant from one another with the order to arrest anybody who should try to approach nearer than 700 feet to the rails, At nivht the whole line is lighted up with torches and woodpiles. Two hours before the passage of the Imperi il train the engineers of the road inspect themselves thetiack and examine with their own hands all the switches. Such were the

extraordinary measures of precaution which the ‘ beloved father’ was taking to travel among his dear children ”