A TRAGIC FIGURE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 29, 29 October 1918, Page 3

A TRAGIC FIGURE

EMPRESS-DOWAGER OP RUSSIA,

11l a humble little country house in the Crimea, with little more than the bare necessaries of life, sick, and mourning for her country, there longs, amid teais and prajm for the eternal rest, the tragic figure of a woman. She ls'tae sister of Queen Alexandra, the widow of Alexander 111, Marie Feodorowna, Em-press-Downger of Russia. Tragic the destiny of this good woman, the friend of Prance and England, whose hatred of Germany and Wilhelm 11-a.feeling she had transmitted to her eon--was iinshakSo'me weeks ago (writes Comte Gaston de Jterindnl in the "Morning Post") a German general was 'sent on n mftsion to her tp inquire as to her wishes. He was not so much as admitted. This old womariof 70, to whom Trotsky and Lenin dole out bread and sugar, who possesses nothing of hor own, would rather die of hunger than be indebted for aught to a Gorman. And does not this trait better than any other depict the character, so compact of dignity and wide, (if her whose husband made the Franco-Tlussian alliance? Ah! Let , the Allies, forgetting to what party they belong, salute, with hearts full of emotion, tho attitude of this noble and unhappy lady! Tho last time I. Raw her was during one of her daily visits to n war hospital in Petrogratl. What simplicity in her bearing, what graeiousnesa in her glance! Each sufferer, whether prince or monjik, had n word of consolation from her lips, nml the reward of her smile was morn to .'these wounded herons than all .the other recompense bestowed.