DR BORANOFF, THE RUSSIAN EXILE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 286, 7 June 1909, Page 4

DR BORANOFF, THE RUSSIAN EXILE.

To-morrow evening at the Prill . Hall, Dr. Boranoffi, the Russia:ti-<exile, who has -escaped three times from Siberia, where he was incarceratedfor : his political opinions, will. deJiver . dramatic pourtrayalsof .His. appalling experiences of , dreaded Siberia. ' The marks of the, chains are upon his . limbs and the deeply cut marks of /thek knouts, too, remain unoblitexaied'by-v time. These are evidence of brutal torture he will carry ;to. the -grave. . "Red Sunday"-r-January ; 29th; 1905 — a day that will for all time stand •'• 'out as furnishing one of the blackest pages in Russia's history^that was,'.. /. when Dr. Boranoff saw the laat'Vsf the' '*■ Empire of the Czar. His experiences, appalling as • they hays been, are by no means a solitary instance of tyranny and oppression. Tjhej? are ' but an example of general- lfieSlods, and Dr. Boranoff has suffered! in company with men of distinction and with men unknown to fame : : ' His first arrest came like a flasli, just about, the time when he bad commenced practice as a niedical manl That was in a town halfway between " J St. Petersburg and Moscow in 1889. He was concerned in the publication of a newspaper, and was taking his share in printing reform literature. ' ,He was engage^ setting typ^' l ta ; tlie ~-~ cellar of a poor washerw«man?st3i©tisevi> ■-.■■ when he was pounced upoii^ • gH» was, lodged in gaol, and tortured in the cells. The knout was used with vindictive recklessness, to force Him. to denounce his comrades, , but lie' •resolutely declined. Then he was kept alive on salt lierring without bread or water, forced by hunger to eat it [though it meant agonies iof thirst. But not a drop was forthconling to moisten his lips. If be'eojafess^; lie - was told, he could drin^Un plenty J With formalities which -were but' a mockery of a trial — no trial at all in . truth — he had to continue in. prison. . The box. plan is at BaHlefr'si and special concessions are .being granted to ladies. Colleges and schools can „", also arrange for concessions. . .The .... Mayor, the Town Clerk' and ieuding. ',' citizens will welcome Dr. Boranoff at the railway station on his arrival tomorrow by the mail train.from ,tho : .- south. .