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About a year later, Okladsky was the highest paid ordinary official of the notorious Okrana or Tsarist secret police. He was created a "personal noble" (noble for life), later an hereditary nobleman.* In Moscow, before his Bolshevik judges, he said that he had been forced to betray his Nihilist comrades...
It was on the night of Feb. 7 that Tschoudnovsky, accompanied by Red soldiers, went to the prison to inform the captives of their immediate execution. Admiral Kolchak was in his cell, fully dressed under a fur coat, and wearing a Cossack hat. He was expecting rescue at the hands...
The Government regrets the delay which has unexpectedly occurred, and sincerely hopes that, with the assurances of friendly assistance now given by the Governments concerned, these measures can soon be put into execution, in accordance with the intentions of the agreements at the Washington Conference.
The revolt was allegedly designed to embarrass President Leguia; but the President is not easily embarrassed. Soldiers put down the uprising ruthlessly, killed 130 of the insurgents, captured many. Execution of the ringleaders followed.
With the new Chapel placed where Grays now is, Mr. du Fais would proceed to widen Holyoke street to a broad avenue, stretching from the Charles River Parkway up to the Chapel. This would necessitate the tearing down of Holyoke House, in all probability, and of the Pudding. Mr. due...