LAYING A GHOST.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4526, 18 April 1917, Page 5

LAYING A GHOST.

RUSSIA’S EVIL GENIUS. STRANGE STORY OF RASPUTIN. GENERAL UNDER ARREST. W T ORKERs" COMMITTEE'S ' ACTIVITIES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, April 10. Strange details of the re-burial of the body of the monk Rasputin are published. After the body had been flung into the Neva the Court commanded its recovery, and it was reburied with great solemnity at Tsarskoe Selo, where it is currently believed his spirit, as potent as Rasputin himself was, has been active The Provincial Government, ■ fearing the body would become the centre of a. mischievous cult, ordered its removal in Veborg Forest. Four trustworthy men were entrusted with the task of removing it on motor-lorries, which stuck in a snowdrift. The local militia arrived and insisted on explanations. Finally the militia made a bonfire which consumed Rasputin’s remains.

General Kuropatikin. Governor-Gen-eral of Turkestan, and four other Generals have been arrested at Tashkent by order of the local branch of the Council of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates on a charge of distributing arm’s to Russians for defence in the event of an attack by natives, lvuropatkin telegraphed to itbe Premier asking to command the Grenadier Corps at the front. The general congress of the Council of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates from all parts of Russia passed a resolution appealing to the democracy to support the Provincial Government so long as it continues to consolidate and develop the gains of the revolution, ..and does not base its foreign policy on aspirations of territorial expansion.