132 YEARS OLD

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 2, 27 September 1922, Page 7

132 YEARS OLD

MAN WHO SAW THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW. "I saw the great Napoleon with my own eyes during ihe retreat from Afrocow (in 1812). He was wearing a green cavalry cloak,” was tho statement inado to a special correspondent of the "Intransigeant” by M. Mecislas Krasirusky, a landed proprietor of Volhynia, in Poland, who states that he is now 1.32 years of ago. Reporting to the police of W araaw that he hod been robbed of 50.(4X) marks in a tram wav car, Krasiusky entered! the date of his birth in the police books hfi 1790 He states he first enlisted in 180!) in the Third Squadron of the Imperial French Guard. "I fought in Russia, he said. "I well remember .the disaster of the crossing of the Beresma November 27 and 28, 1812). I myself on that fatal day burnM a pile of new to colour flads wdth their eagles. In - 18.41 1 joiwd the insurrectionary Polish and fought again on the side of the Poles in their effort to free the country from Russia. For this I was sent to Si^t s frS r Kr& stated he offered to his late gaolers, and part in the Chinese campaign of S again in the Russo-Japanese War medals that he has won during his long career, and explains that Tie iod many others, but thev were stolen from him T bv the Bolsheviks. He declares he wosnd«l at Mcrcow. in ’WI2. at Txsipzig in 1813. and again m 1830 doling the Polish revolution. . have iK'ver been ill. he told nis interviewer, "and that is heron =e I have alwavs been temperate in all things. ' onlv began to smoko 30 rears ago. I attribute my long life to this -My father died when he was lb, and my mother.-whon. she was 97.” '. li