THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1917.
GRAPHIC STORY OF
FALL OFTHE CZAR
Member of Duma Describes
Dramatic Situation on Spe.
cial Train at Oskov When
Nicholas Signed.
Washington, June 19. The spe
cial diplomatic mission from Russia
was received upon its arrival today
with every possible effort to reflect
America's profound hope and con
fidence in the newest European de
mocracy. The highest officials of the State
department, including Secretary
Lansing, Counsellor Polk and As
sistant Secretary Phillips, met the
envoys' special train at the end of
their long journey half way around
the world.
Crowds cheered them as they
went under double cavalry escort to
the David Henning Jennings home,
which is to be their headquarters.
Simultaneous with the coming of
M. George Bakhmetiett, special am
bassador of the new Russian republic
to the United States, and his party,
the International News Bureau, Inc.,
released for publication this remark
able story, protected by copyright, of
the abdication of Czar Nicholas,
v.hich appears today exclusively in
The Omaha Bee.
Downfall of Czar.
(Copyright, 1917, the International News
Bureau, Inc.)
Chicago, June 19. The member of
the Duma, ho, together with Gutch
kov the famous Siberian exile, ne
gotiated the details of the abdication
of the czar at Pskov, gives the details
of the historic event. He said:
'After the Duma had decided to
demand the abdication of the czar,
Gutchov, the newly returned Siberian
exile, and I, were delegated to go to
Pskov, where, according to informa
tion in the possession of the execu
tive committee of the Duma, the czar
was staying.
"We left March 15 at 3 p. m. from
the Warsaw station. The railway
authorities ' gave every assistance.
The train was immediately made up
and was ordered to go at maximum
speed. Two engineers came into our
carriage and we all went together.
We were detained at Gatchina, where
they were waiting for General I.yan
ov, who was somewhere near
Wyriesa with a detachment of troops
sent to suppress the revolt at Petro
grad. But the meeting with Ivanov
did not come off. At Luga we were
again detained because great crowds
oi people and soldiers had assembled
and asked Gutchkov to address them.
At 10 o'clock we arrived at Pskov,
where we intended originally to have
a talk with General Ruzsky, who had
been informed of our arrival. But as
soon as the train stopped one of the
aides-de-camp entered the carriage
and said:
'"His majesty is expecting you.'
In the Emperors' Presence.
"On leaving the carriage we only
had a few paces to go to reach the
imperial train. I was not agitated. I
had reached that limit of fatigue and
nervous tension when nothing, it
seems, can surprise or appear impos
sible. Still, I felt a little shy because
I had to appear before the czar
i.. a jacket, dirty, unwashed, unshav
en, with a face of a convict just re
leased from one of the prisons just
burnt.
"We entered the imperial private
car, which was brightly lighted and
decorated in green. There we found
Fredericks, the minister of the court,
and another general, whose name I
do not know.
"A few moments afterward the
czar entered, dressed in the unifbrm
of the Caucasian regiment. He ap
peared unperturbed. He was cour
teous. He shook our hands. Then he
sat down and asked us also to take
our seats, pointing to a seat next to
him at a small table for Gutchkov,
and to me to sit opposite. Fredericks
Sat down somewhere at a distance,
while the general whose name I do
not know, took his seat at a little
table in the corner.
"Just then Ruzsky came in, and,
apologizing to the czar, bade us good
evening, and sat next to me, opposite
the czar. The first to speak was
Gutchkov. I had feared that Gutchkov
might say something pitiless to the
czar, but that did not happen. Gutch
kov spoke at considerable length flu
ently, even skillfully, so far as the
construction of the parts of his
speech was concerned.
"He did not touch upon the past
at all. He described the present situa
tion, trying to show at what an abyss
we had arrived. Gutchkov spoke with
out looking at the czar, keeping his
right hand on the table and lowering
his eyes. He did not look at the czar's
face. And probably it was easier for
him to speak the whole truth in this
manner.
The Fatal Words Spoken.
"Gutchkov finished by saying that
the only way out of the situation
would be the czar's abdication in
favor of Alexis, the czars' son, with
the Grand Duke Michael as regent.
When he said that, General Ruzsky
bent over to me and whispered that
this already had been decided.
"When Gutchkov had finished, the
czar began to speak. His voice and
manner were calmer, and, so to speak,
more business-like than the agitated
speech of Gutchkov.
"The czar said with perfect calm
ness, as if speaking of the most ordi
nary thing:
" 'Yesterday and today, continuous
ly, I have been thinking, and have de
cided to abdicate. Up to 3 o'clock this
afternoon I was prepared to abdicate
in favor of my son, but now I realize
that I am unable to part from him.'
"Here he made a very brief pause,
and added, with the same quietness:
"'I hope you will understand this.
For this reason I have decided to ab
dicate in favor of my brother., "
"After these words he became
silent, as if waiting for an answer.
Then I said:
" 'This suggestion takes us by sur
prise. We only forsaw an abdica
tion in favor of the Czarevitch Alexis.
Therefore I ask your permission to
have a talk with Gutchkov for a quar
ter of an hour in order to give a con
certed reply.'
"We soon decided to accept the
czar's proposal. Gutchkov said he
did not feel competent to interfere
with paternal feelings, and regarded
it impossible to exercise any pressure
in this respect. I noticed a faintly ex
pressed satisfaction on the czar's face
with these words. On my part I said
that the czar's desire, so far as I
could appreciate it, though it had
against it the fact that it was opposed
to our decision, nevertheless had cer
tain advantages on each side.
"The inevitable separation would
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Barred from Mails
Washington, June 19. Any drink
containing alcohol was defined by
the PoBtoffice department today as
intoxicating liquor within the mean
ing of the law forbidding mailing of
liquor advertisements into dry ter
ritory after July 1.
Methyl, wood and denatured alco
hol are excepted.
The department ruled also that
the prohibition against advertise
ments applies to liquor for scien
tific, sacramental, medicinal and
mechanical purposes.
create a difficult and delicate situa
tion, since the young czar would
always think of his absent parents,
and perhaps, in his heart, father and
mother. In addition, it was question
able whether the regent could take
the oath of allegiance to the consti
tution on behalf of the young czar.
Yet such and oath under the present
circumstances would be absolutely
necessary in order to prevent again a
dubious situation.
"The obstacle, if Michael Alex
androvitch were to ascend the throne,
would be. removed, since he could
take the oath and become a constitu
tional monarch. In this way we gave
our consent to the czar's abdication
in favor of Michael Alexandrovitch.
"The czar then asked us whether
we could assume the responsibility
and give him a guarantee that his ab
dication would really calm the coun
try and would not provoke complica
tions. To this we replied that, so far
as we could foresee, there would be
no complications.
"The czar rose and went into the
next car to sign the act of abdication.
At about quarter past 11 he re-entered
our car, holding in his hands some
small sheets of paper. He said:
"'Here is the act of abdication; read
it, please.'
"We began to read it in an under
tone. The document was written in
noble and beautiful terms. I felt
ashamed of the text which we our
selves had earlier drafted. Neverthe
less, I asked the czar to insert the
words, 'And to take a public oath'
after the phrase, 'We bequeath to our
brother to administer the affairs of
the state in complete and inviolable
union with the representatives of the
people in the legislative institutions
on the bases which will be deter
mined.' Parted as Friends.
"The czar immediately agreed and
added the words on the spot, merely
altering one of them so that the
phrase ran as follows:
" 'And to take an inviolable oath.'
Thus Michael Alexandrovitch was to
take an oath of fidelity to the consti
tution, and would have been a strictly
constitutional monarch.
"I thought at the time that that was
quite enough, but things went much
further. The signature was made in
pencil. When we had perused and ap
proved of the act there followed an all
around hand shake, which had a cor
dial character.
"When I looked at my watch it was
twelve minutes to midnight. I re
member that when all was finished a
thought passed through my mind:
'How well that it was March 15 and
not March 14.' (The date of the as-
sination of his grandfather, Alex
ander I.)
"When we bade each other good
bye the feelings on either side were
not unfriendly. I felt almost pity for
the man who at that moment, had re
deemed his mistakes by the nobility
of ideas which accompanied his ab
dication trom power.
Fowler Land Registrar
At Douglas, Wyoming
Washington, June 19. James F.
Burgess was today nominated by
President Wilson to be register of
the land office at Lakeview, Ore., and
Wade H. Fowler to be register of the
land office at Douglas, Wyo.
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Telephone numbers called
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correctly. More than one coll out of
every hundred Is wrong be
cause people transpose the
figures of a number In giving
them to the operator.
When they want Number
134, for example, they call
for 143.
" Get the right number from
the directory, always.
Then give the number to
the operator slowly and distinctly.
WILLIAMS TALKS
BEFORE EDITORS
Fen is Chief Weapon of Democ
racy, School of Journal
ism Head Tells Ne
braska Publishers.
"lu the hands of men entirely great,
the pen is mightier than the sword,"
said Walter Williams, dean of the
School of Journalism, University of
Missouri, in his talk before members
of the Nebraska Press association in
session at Happy Hollow club.
He treated journalism as the chief
weapon of democracy. He pointed
out the necessity of open publicity in
national affairs and the necessity of
absolute honesty on the part of the
newspaper men in removing all po
litical bias from information given out
during the current crisis.
"The people who fight this war and
pay for it have a right to know what
is going on. You are to keep them
informed, and informed correctly.
"The war took place in Europe in
the open berausV an enslaved press
there could not print the facts con
cerning the secret diplomacy which
has been going on tor years.
Too Much Intolerance.
The speaker held that there is too
much of a tendency toward intoler
ance of the views of others regarding
the present war.
To charge a man who does not
agree with you in regard to the pol
icy of .he war with being pro-German
may evidence the poverty of
our vocabulary, but it does not make
for the safety of the commonwealth."
He held also that foolish charges
of "slacker states" were made
throughout the country after the re
turns of the draft registration came
in, though the charges were based
on nothing more than the fact that
a large percentage of those who reg
istered had answered the question on
the registration card regarding
exemption claims. He pointed out
that the question was expected to
be answered, else it would not hate
been put there, and criticised those
who used the volume of answers as
evidence of a slacker spirit.
Talks on Advertising.
Herman Black, nublisher of the
Chicago American, touched on the
many obstacles placed in the way of
the effectiveness of newspaper adver
tising even after the advertising has
been bought and paid tor. He said
these obstaoles are placed in its
way by the very men who buy the
space and should be most interested.
Merchants utilizing advertising
space," he said, "are often negligent
about dressing up their window dis
plays in harmony with the advertising
for the day, and particularly about
putting their salespeople info har
mony with the advertising for the
day.
"Again I have known merchants to
take advertising space in the newspa
pers along the line of a certain cam
paign, then at the last minute adopt
new tactics and a new method which
they had seen in operation in the
house of their competitor, so that
when the customers come into the
store in answer to the advertisements
read in the newspapers they find that
the whole scheme had been changed
and that the house is not willing to
make good the claims of its paid ad
vertisements, but is pursuing another
policy entirely.
Despite the fact that newspaper
SAY MUNITION MEN
TRY TOAYOID TAX
Internal Revenue Agents In
vestigating Cases of Al
leged False Reports
of Profits.
Washington, June 19. Widespread
attempts on the part of munitions
makers to evade the payment of
profits taxes imposed by congress
last September have bee reported
by internal revc agents, who ha,e
been working quietly for the last two
months checking up the manufactur
ers' returns.
The extent of the attempted eva
sion thus far brought to the attention
of the treasury totals more than $10,
000,000, or approximately 40 per cent
of the returns voluntarily made. In
dications are that the figure will go
as 'iigh as $12,000,000 or $13,000,000.
Scores of the manuf :ti..cra of mu
nitions are sait. to have attempted to
evade the law by making only partial
returns of their profits. Some of the
largest concerns in the industry failed
to make complete returns of profits,
it is charged, ;
Required to Report Profits.
Under the law munitions makers
are required to report to the com
missioner of internal revenue their
profits each year and to pay the gov
ernment tax of 2M per cent. Vir
tually all of the 600 to 700 manufac
turers made their returns, apparently
in conformance with the law, showing
profits which netted the government
approximately $26,500,000 in taxes.
As a result of the investigation re
turns to the government have been
revised in many instances and will be
in others, so that the total which the
government will obtain in taxes will
be at least $36,500,000.
Burglar Robs Down
Town Drug Store at Noon
A bold daylight burglar stole $90 in
cash from the Reed Drug company,
Seventeenth and Douglas streets, at
noon.
Henry Reed, proprietor of the store,
was counting his cash when a cus
tomer summoned him to the front of
the store. The robber entered by a
rear door, snatched up $90 in cash
which Reed had left on the counter,
and made his escape.
Contract for $57,000
Storm Sewer is Awarded
The city council approved contract
and bond in favor of the Nebraska
Construction company for construc
tion of a storm sewer from Thirty
seventh and Sprague streets to Forty-fifth
and Ohio streets. The bid
was $57,000.
advertising has accomplished much,
the surface has not even been
scratched when compared to what
might be accomplished if all factors
were brought into harmony for the
best results when a merchant buys
advertising space."
G. L. Caswell of Denison, la., sec
retary of the Iowa association, spoke
briefly on the association work in his
state and some of the things accom
plished by the organization in the in
terest of the newspaper men.
For luncheon the editors and their
wives were the guests, of the three
Omaha dailies at Happy Hollow club.
THIRTY THOUSAND
POLES ARE HANGED
Sensational Charge Made by
Polish Deputy in Austrian
Reichsrath Starts Riot
on Floor,
Zurich. June 19. (Via Paris.)
The rolls': deputy Daszinski de
clared in the Vienna Reichsrath that
more than 30,000 Poles have been
hanged by order of the German au
thorities, according to the Vienna
Arheiter Zeitung. which, prints spe
cial details of the sittings of the
Rck-lirath on the 14th and 15th. Dep
uty Striberny also described the
abominable treatment accorded polit
ical suspects, whereupon the pan
Germanist Deputv Heine shouted:
"They have not used the rone
enough; all of them ought to have
been hancerl."
At these words all of the Slav and
Polish members rushed upon Heine
ana me president was obliged to sus
pend the sitti. g in the midst of a tre
mendous uproar.
Revolt Causes Crisis.
Coneiihaff(.ii Tim 10 fv:, I
don.) The revolt nf tli lVil ,k.
Austrian Parliament is described by
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the Vienna correspondent of the Vos
siache Zeitung as having produced a
crisis in which the position not only
of Premier Clam-Martinic, but also of
Count Czcrnin, the foreign minister, is
threatened.
The Vossische Zeitung correspon
dent, however, points out that the de
fection of the Poles in Parliament is
sufficient to turn the scales against
the government since the rest of the
Slav Bloc already is in opposition.
The Poles indicated the seriousness
of their intentions by a decision to
vote against the hugct, being the fust
Parliamentary group in any belliger
ent country, aside from a handful of
extreme socialists, in refusing to vote
a war credit.
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New York, June 19. The oil tank
steamer John D. Archbold of the
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by a submarine. The announcement
was made at the offices of the com
pany here today. Four members of
the tanker's crew were lost. The
Archbold was sent to the bottom last
Saturday in European waters.
The John D. Archbold was two
days out enroute to this country
from France. The ship was armed
and a gunners' crew from an Ameri
can warship was on board.
The John D. Archbold was an
American steamship of 8,374 tons
gross register It left here May 20
for Havre and Ropen, France, with
cargo, under the command of Captain
If. B. Thompson, with a crew of
forty-one men, of whom twelve were
Americans.
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