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of the nations in which they were permitted to sojourn. As it was at Paris, so it is in our own Government. There are politicians in the British ministry who would not be there if their Semitic blood and connections had not given them ୫ secret advantage. What is there of tradition or training or ability in Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, for instance, which should entitle him to the Presidency of the Board of Works? Why is Mr Montagu permitted to wreck the peace of India-a licence which would be granted, we hope and believe, to no Christian? Why is Mr Montagu's cousin, Sir Herbert Samuel, who at any rate is not ashamed of his own name, sent

the Arabs to an enforced and sudden influx of Hebrews, many of them Bolshevists? There is but one explanation of these anomalies, and that explanation is the influence wielded secretly and unscrupulously by the Semites who are allowed to live in our midst. In conclusion, we are faced by a peril which it would be absurd to overlook on the foolish plea of religious toleration. It is no matter of religion but of race, and the sooner we insist that the Jews, living peaceably in our midst, shall take no part, open or secret, in the government of the country in which they are privileged to dwell, the less risk we shall run of revolution and of Bolshevism,

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Entered as second-class matter, July 3, 1917, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879

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Yurovsky; and the Murder of the Tzar

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CAPTAIN FRANCIS MCCULLAGH

A remarkable account of one of the darkest episodes in modern history by one who has personally visited the scene of the murder and conversed with his assassins. The most tragic story of the Great War! told for the first time. Capt. McCullagh had the advantage of very unusual opportunities for the collection of the information contained in this account, which forms one of the most important articles in any recent periodical. In the September number of

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER

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FOR an hour the city has been silent as a place of the dead. The moon casts its light upon the waters and on a tangle of gloomy streets intersected by docks and quays. There seems to be no person stirring anywhere save here and there a group of soldiers standing with fixed bayonets. In one quarter only there is a blaze of light. That comes from some half-dozen enormous lorries, and occasionally their rumbling can be heard as they go heavily here and there, stopping at frequent intervals.

Then on a sudden a loud dolorous eerie ory, that gathers force as it spreads over the darkened streets and up into the surrounding hills, breaks the ominous silence, arouses for a moment the interest of the wearied sentinels, or disturbs a slumberer's unrestful sleep.

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What is it that rends the midnight so? Only an old woman, or perhaps many old women, screaming. And you would not believe, if you had not heard it, that they were capable of so immense a volume of sound. It is hard to distinguish any words, but the meaning of their unearthly wailing is defiance to the stranger, and the barthen of their jargon is "God ourse King George and all his men!" It seems like the soul of an unappeasable restless race howling forth its discontent.

It was when the troubles of this distressful land had already reached a considerable pitch that it was found necessary to close the streets of the city to all the inhabitants from 10 o'clock at night until 3 in the morning. This order, called by the name of "Curfew,"

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enjoins that they must all be You might think it an inside their houses by the for- easy question that few could mer hour, and picquets are fail to answer. If you do, placed in various parts of the you city to prevent insurgents from arranging a place of rendezvous and flocking to it on given signal. Those arrested are taken to the Police House, the place already described as ringed with a blaze of light, and there examined as to their reason for being abroad after the statutory hour.

Men speak of "the drama of the Curfew," and maybe the writer of these notes may have signified his approval of the phrase in his initial sentences. But "Comedy" may suit the case as well, perhaps better.

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For when the lorry with its burden of delinquents draws up at the entrance, the same humorous procedure is repeated nearly every time. There stands the "Police House" with its vestibule, and "the minions of the British Government' sauntering about the door. And within there is a kind of private sanotum where the great man of the moment, ruling supreme over the destinies of the night, sits in a roomy arm-chair before a table covered with typewritten documents. The prevailing oharacteristic of the room is loyalty, as opposed to the rebellion and lawlessness that ramp in the darkness outside, for its decorations, which adorn every wall, are portraits of rulers and generals.

Facing these, the incomer is brought before his interrogator, who asks his name.

are under & sad delusion, for the Hibernian, for some reason that must remain a mystery, finds it an exceedingly difficult one. He is also extremely garrulous, especially when met between the hours of ten at night and three in the morning; and ignoring altogether the very modest request of the great man in the chair, bursts into a torrent of impassioned and perfectly unintelligible oratory -a flood so fast and furious that nothing can stand before it. No one else can pronounce a syllable. Broadly speaking, the length and vehemence of the outpour vary in exact proportion to the personal appearance of the questioned. Some passably well-groomed wayfarers have been known to preserve a reticent and even sulky demeanour when examined, but this is the exception. In the course of the oration, he reveals nearly everything about himself that it is not strictly necessary to know, and the only two facts which he conceals with zealous care are his name and his address, being, in almost every case, the only information that the questioner requires.

The hearers, generally numbering about six, are quite gratuitously presented with all kinds of terrible family secrets, as, to state the mildest, that he has quarrelled with his father or his mother or some other relative, who has turned him out of the house for the

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