THE RUSSIAN EXILE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 285, 5 June 1909, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN EXILE.

pit BORANOFF. On ' Tuesday morning by the mail train arriving from the south, Dr. Boranoff will reach Darineyirke and will be welcomed at the railway station by the MayoV and the Town Clerk, and the leading citizens. Oh Tuesday evening at the Drill Hall he Avill deliver his brilliant and dramatic discourse -upon his imprisonment in •Sih.ev.ia-, where he was incarcerated for liis political opinions, and from whence he escaped on. three different occasions. Dr. Boranoff > was last in St. Petersburg on . that fateful day, 29th tTanuaiix 1905— "Red Sunday"— and marelied, iit tlie procession, comprising 42,000 souls to the Winter Palace. At the "Winter Palace they 'were met by an enormous army, with artillery, and a volley of bullets was fired right into the crowd. There were over 900 killed, men, women and children, and th'j, streets were full tf injured, and the white snow red with' blood. "For every, head cut off." says Dr. Boranoff, "millions are rising in defence, because it .appears fool's play to suppress truth and justico and love, as is done in Russia. He was' arrested on ''Red Sunday" whilst attending medically to the dying and wounded peasants, but he escaped from his ■■ captors, got clear of the country, landed this time in Eng- ' land, and there married an English lady. Tho box plan -is at Baa-tl-eit-'s and a special toncessioii^ is Ibeing granted to' ladies. • ■;'• ' 'Golleges *■ arid' schools may arrange ; for concessional prices.