GRAND DUKE AWAITS REVOLT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17153, 1 October 1926, Page 3

GRAND DUKE AWAITS REVOLT

NICHOLAS CONTEMPLATES OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD RUSSIANS “WAIT AND WORK” PARIS, Aug. 21. In the Chateau dc Choiguy, near the ' quiet little village of Sautcnay, about an hour’s ride south-east of Paris, lives flic (19-ycar-old Grand Duke Nicholas, whom a newly-organised group of Russian emigres have acclaimed as the leader of a future peasant revolution against Bolshevism. Nicholas, uncle of the late Czar and former commander-in-chief of the Rus- , sian armies, whose advance into East Prussia enlieartened the Allied world | in the first year of the, war, takes " walks and occasional motor rides river the pleasant, rolling country side, awaiting the time when he ami his supporters may have an opportunity of assuming the lead in the reconstruction of Russia. BIG FUND RAISED It is not; merely' watchful waiting, j The Grand Duke is the recipient of a ' • monthly sum estimated to be more I than 11,000,000 francs, contributed by Russians scattered abroad to help; ry' \ r.'-'G

bring about an entente between ,th& anti-Gonnnumsts rvilhiu Russia and tho nationalist Movement outside. Tho money is not collected if controlled by any organisation. It is a voluntary gift from tho emigres to tho Grand Duke, to bo used for political purposes by him and his immediate staff. Tho Grand Duke and his partisans do not express confident hope of au early downfall of the Communist power. “Wo must wait and work,” they say. Nor do they put forth a detailed programme to bo applied in the event of nationalist success. Grand Duke Nicholas has carefully refrained from specific pronouncements, beyond saying that he is no protagonist of any system of government: to lie imposed from outside Russia. PEOPLE DEPRI VED OF LIBERTIES ‘ ‘ We must, not; seek to anticipate the future destinies of Russia,” said Nicholas. “We must content, ourselves tvith striving to restore order and legality. It is our people, to-day deprived of all theif liberties, who alone have, tho right tfl establish the bases of their existence.”