Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1916 — CZAREVITCH IS NO WEAKLING [ARTICLE]

CZAREVITCH IS NO WEAKLING

Mystery Surrounding the Illness of the Heir to the Russian Throne Is Cleared. London. —The mystery which for more than three years has enshrouded the injury and illness suffered by the czarevitch, heir to the throne of Russia, has been cleared Try Right Rev. Dr. Bury, bishop of northern and been in close touch with the czar and who recentljt returned from Petrograd. In a lecture at York on “Russia and Siberia,” Bishop Bury said the rumors circulated in England and elsewhere at the time of the czarevitch’s illness were without foundation in fact. He declared the czar personally had informed him that there is no reason to suppose the czarevitch will not grow up to be a strong man. The czar’s son suffered from nothing more serious than a skin affection, said Bishop Bury. The fact that no official cognizance was taken of the rumors, because they were groundless, led in some sections to a belief that there was some portion of truth in them. The czarevitch, said Bishop Bury, was a very ' high-spirited boy and would climb trees and indulge in games when he could get away from his tutor. The almost trifling nature of his illness was well known in Petrograd, but all sorts of stories were told in London clubs.