Show u DUKE NICHOlAS A ANTIBES France Dec IS 38 CAP AP While While latest reports from the bedside of at Grand Duke Nicholas of ot Russia who is making a gallant fight against pneumonia mentioned a a. slight Improvement today it was feared that this was temporary because because be because be- be cause of or the patients patient's age The grand duke dulce who is 72 took tooka a n. slight cold a week ago which rapidly rapidly rapIdly rap- rap Idly developed into a severe case of ot pneumonia II He was in poor health when he lie arrived on the tho Riviera a month ago ado a o and it is understood that this led to a report that h had been forced to relinquish leadership of or the Russian czarists Nicholas answered this report by saying that he ho would continue to head the anti anti- soviet party until he was dead The rho grand duke who has made Franco France his home since the tho Russian revolution has always been extremely extremely extremely ex- ex ex ex- circumspect in his conduct He lIe was careful to do nothing that would attract adverse comment or embarrass embarras's the tho l French rench gove government |