DEPRESSED BY DEFEATS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8109, 7 September 1904, Page 2

DEPRESSED BY DEFEATS.

A RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS StFICJIDE. . liFrom the "Ceylon Observer;" ' : ' we learn that Mons, Pierre Roudanoviky, First! Sectary/to the Russia Legation in Fe-M kin, committed, suicide, at- Madras las* ;^ month.. The deceased was in Colombo jostl^ a few days prior t*o hir^icide, and watf^ then apparently worried ahd broken *n3^-v-' in health, and v although h« talked hopef^P'*' of the future, it WM^paient tho mijia&| tones of his countrymen in Manchuria «Sk" praying upon his mind. It was the fetiS. - tion of -.M. Roudanovaky to prrrcetgjSu conatry and spend some days »tt CtjjjjlJ

jfctti, for come unaccountable reason, he changed his mind, and crossed to India, faring first «ngag«d tbe services of a guide $i Cook's, in Colombo. The "Observer" idty:— "Our Madras oorrwpondent does Bot assign any reason for the rash act, and . mt can conjectnra none, unleu it be de- j grenion at the repeated and sev<re defeats of his country in Manchuri*." The d«cea»td'i tldest brother is the Ruwiwi Consul at . Singapore. M- Roudanovsky left Pekm, ! wit& bis wife, who is * daughter of M. de Gitn, th« Russian Minister either at Brusteli or Roumania. At Singapore she was BO iirtd of the sea that she decided to stay j who Jb«r brother-in-law, and a mon^h later fotlbW: bier husband to Bt Petersburg. M. Roadanovsky was to make a journey through India,, and then was to embark at JJombay for Russia. He had tak*n tickets »t Cook's agency in Colombo for his jour- , JKty throngh Indj>. ■ .