RASPUTIN THE MONK
STRANGE/OBSEQUIES. London, April 16. Strange details are reported of the re-burial of the Monk Rasputin. After the body was flung into the Neva, the Court recovery, and it was re-buried with great solemnity at Tsarskoe Selo, where it -is currently belioved his spirit is as potent as Rasputin had been in life. The Provisional Government, fearing the body would become the centre of a mischievous cult, ordered its I'o-b.urial in Viborg Forest. Four'trustworthy men were entrusted with the task of removing it on a motor lorry, which stuck in a snowdrift. The local militia- arrived, and insisted on explanations, and finally made a bonfire,'which consumed Rasputin's remains.—Aus.-N.Z: Cable Assn. '
(Phe cable news in this issue accredited to the London "Times" has appeared in that journal but only where expressly •tatad is sutA a«ws the editorial opinion ol The "laswa,")
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 18 April 1917, Page 7
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