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Show TIIE 1 1 VAX A LD-- E P UB L1C AX, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MARCH 5, R 191G NICHOLAS GALLED HERO FOR SAVING BRITISH EMPII Sent O ut In Disgrace He Has Triumpkecl Over - b- Beside His Skill in Soldiery and Audacity in Affairs of the Heart the Grand Duke Is Passionately Fond of Flowers and Is a Scientific Astrono- mer, Being Noted for His B 'NO II ii '( 'I ;!! L proven beyond doubt that he is in war as ha ia in everything else a winner. Sent to the Caucasus in disgrace, he has made the campaign there the most brilliant Knssian action of the war. He is the hero of the hour a hero wh has neeeedcd in shattering the Matter's moit cherished loj o, that of hitting at tha British empire by way of Asia Minor and Egypt. Triumphed Over Obstacles. He has triumphed over the machinations of the Ilussian bureaucracy, V'V vA lw ComUVotho V 7s--Si 'A To Saiojika 7SO MILLS y j . I kSTA? ! - l4irn f j Every obstacle was placed in bis path. The imperial edi-- limited him to the cavalry; yet soon under his ieadcndiip the Russian cavalry bejran to be counted amoncit tlie best in Europe. court teemed The St. Pctersbur-with scandals a?aint him. the man whom his imperial kinsman desired not to honor. These he was too poor to combat with secret epents. for his father had bequeathed him little else bat debtc. t r Made Morganatic Marriage. That particular difficulty was removed by his monranatic marriage, to widow of the confiding middle-age- d a merchant millionaire to whom ho remained at least outwardly faithful until her death, at which event be at once bertn planning his marriace to of Montenegro, Princess whom he had loved all alomr. Everything seemed to run smoothly for the prand duke alter his marriage, lie came to be one of the most honored men in Russia and was called in no hushed voice Nicholas the Bier, while the czar was ta?jred with the rather unkind title of Nicholas the Little. It was Grand Duke Nicholas who was the commander in chief of th Russian armies, which contain 7.000.000 mm. As may be imagined, it wns no ( Ana-.?tasi- a .Vf ) FORCE E G WT Whole Regiment Disappears As If Hsdblo inquiry. The Ameri lost! A whole repeating the words "How like Nicholas," but they have quite a different meaning, for Nicholas has made his position as commander of the Army of the Caucasus the most important in the Russian army. flrand Duke Nicholas has come back. Once again Nicholas the Little steps back for his cousin the duke, whose conquest counts as one of the most important victories of this war. Captures Erzerum Fortress. Ied by the grand duke himself, the once inactive, insignificant army of the Caucasus has captured the great fortress of Erzerum, the principal city of Turkish Armenia. This was after a strenuous campaign through deep snow and with the thermometer often 2." degrees below ze$o. lie is they are to her knees. It was less than five months ago that the grand duke took command in the Caucasus, and yet he has today in this one conquest 100,000 Turkish troops locked up in the prison of Erzerum, to say nothing of two noted German leaders. Field Marshals von der Goltz and Limon von Sanders. Those who looked on in anguish at the displacing of one of the greatest military experts, together with those few who rejoiced, smile at this conquest and admit that this campaign is unparalleled in military history. It was an advance pressed across bleak and rugged country, over mountains and through narrow defiles in arctic cold. Nine of the defending forts of Erzerum were taken with the bayonet. soldiers Russian The swept ambassador in Constantinople aied the Turkish government. Rumor after rumor has been run t ot But all without avail. ! until the war is over v.i!l their mys-- ! lerio,:.-- fate be known, ami, perhaps, rvri then, the charge the "King's Own" will go dwu in history as a ta!e outrivaling the fiction of the l.tot Lcirion" and overshadowing the Gallipot! peninsula.. that of "The (mH) at Balaklava. While at the chins and cafe- - and Into a forest th'V charged. 2l0 "f-jj- n ts at home they wonder the arc prisoners in ficcra n:ul mvn. an Avcrc never hoard vicjjlfr tj,o cf again. Not a n an came back. borne vile Turkldi dnnecou or vicexNot body, a crave or a sign tims of ravage butchery cunningly the prop- covered up by the Turks, -- cores of cept two small pocket books, erty of their commander. Capt. Will- cottace homes on the royal iam Beck, has ever been found. Ti:oe estates of West Norfolk are and time again has the forest been jn mem miner. Fathers, mothers. Avive3 searched in vain. and sweethearts are wearing crepe. It is the greatest mystery of the They fear that the boys Arill never s, come marching home again. Avar, this charge of the Fifth and their fathers like who, Two days before the vanished had been born fathers fathers, their sen-antof the king made their now were and on servants employed royal famous charge at Anafarta they had the Sandringham estates of King received their baptism of fire. George. Aboard the palatial Aquitania they Into the village of Anafarta they reached Sulva bay on the morning of Turkish machine guns August 10. That afternoon they charged. mowed them down, but '260 of the started for the shfre in small boats gallant contingent swept on and into while a withering fire of Turkish the forest and vanished as though machine guns and artillery churned the forest had swalloAved them up. up the water around them. But they Man. Each Knew landed safely and dug themselves King known personally into trenches. On the morning of Every man was to King George, and he has made August 12 theA were ordered to clear tJr - v- Jii gV6 51 ''o.: Jb x f SM, V l W ' w il ? A Sand-rinirha- m ivcrocia r jCDAjO 'ntxPtDmoMAr' British a VUorle y Kwpv Rtt,,0N PirricliLTiCS J t . flFMe-T- l ' . JJT (To ,0 Bs5pr am 450 the fact that her husband the grand duke himself sheltered in a mansion directly across the street from her own palace a lady of the imperial ballet, didn't cause so much as a wrinkle to mar her tranquil beauty. She smiles and continues to enjoy every social gathering that she thinks worth attending in Petrograd. She acts as though she hadn't a care in the world, and 6he hasn't, as far as children are concerned, for contrarjr to the hopes of the grand duke his wife has not presented him with a lie was the same in his love affairs In Touch With Ancestors. Just how she is taking the receut heart on getting it.. as he is in war. The fact that the woman he loved and desired to make his wife was the wife of another didn't disturb him the slightest. He wooed her, although she was the wife of the Duke of Leuehtenberg, and what is more (as may be concluded) he won. The pair waited patiently until the czar felt disposed to the divorce taking place (where the duke came in has never been intimated), and then the grand duke and the sweetheart of his youth were married when the latter was at the rather ripe age of 44. She was the Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, and an unusual type, Slavic to the boije. She has become truly Russian except that she never permits anything to worry her. Even child. and unparalleled conquest of her husband is not known, but judging by the feeling of good fellowship that has alwaj's existed between them, it is safe to assume that she just sent forth a wire offering congratulations and then said no more about it, for she knows how opposed her husband is to compliments. This is merely one of the many peculiar characteristics of the grand duke. As a matter of fact, he doesn 't care what people think of him and has proven this fact often by eating with his fingers, throwing the bones to the dogs who gathered at hi-- elbow. And for an -- excuse he merely exclaims that he Avants "to keep in touch with his dee-ora- te down. FRY stopped, on and crumpled up on the red soil. But the others continued on. With grimly-se- t jaAvs and the high light of courage blazing in their eyes they sAvarmed into tlie village. Fiercely, unceasingly the Turkish machine guns chug-chugge- The d. Fifth Norfolks might have sought the shelter of the rude dwellings in the but their orders Avere to clear the forest. So through the Aillage they bayoneted, shot by a feeble resistance, and on to the forest hundred feet awav. Few Observed the Charge's End. In the smoke and the din of the engagement at its eA'ery angle only a feAv of the staff officers in the rear observed the Fifth Norfolks as they literally plunged into the foreat beyond. From close formation in the A'illage they had spread out again Avith a marvelous precision into a long, thin line. Some were running The "Lost Legion." The greatest mystery of the war is what has become of these 260 officers and men of eAenly, easily. Others were leaping the "king's own," who are shown setting out for the front from Sandringham, England, where they were em- over obstructions such as tree into stumps and rocks. Still others Avere ployed as servants on King George's estates. Nothing more has ever been heard from them since they chargedback. came ever one them sound. to of Not near and were lost Gallipoli. They the forest at Anafarta. sight halting in the thick underbrush, but getting clear and by a burst of speed out the Turks from in and around whip" on the Aillage green at West pidity elevated theier guns at an ab- catching up Avith their mates. Then oblivion. Norfolk. As British officers always surdly high angle and for a full 200 Anafarta. are. Colonel Beauchamp and Captain 3'ards the king's servants swept on Out of their "Nothing more Avas r heard of trenches the King's Own sprang, up Beck Avere ahead of their men. triumphantly unscathed. Noav the them. They charged into the forest when Colonel Beauchamp shouted the Hardly a dozen paces from the Turkish gunners got their senses and Avere lost to sight and sound. Not one of them r came back." Thus command. Jn a long, thin line they trenches Avere they when the Turkish back. Enfiladed by the fire, gaps began reads the report of Sir Ian Hamilton. spread out just as in their boyhood attack developed. At first the maSearchers Avere sent out and coa'- days they had played "snap the chine gunners bewildered by its ra to appear in the line of charge. Here seA'-er- al - hastily-construct- His homes are noted for their simplicity. They haA'e none of the costly hangings and furnishings that the mansions of the other members of nobility. The decorations are mainly arms and old military charts of all ages. The only picture in his house at Streina is a life-siz- e portrait of his fathei, who Avas also a general. He has one extravagance flower?. His conservatory is one of the most costly in all Russia. FloAvers are pronounced by him to be the only decoration Avorth considering for a hom. Even his suits of armor blossom, thanks to his ingenious idea of having designed little flower holders Avhich fit into the eye slits on the and apertures on the armor. His one hobby is astronomy. At Streina he has a perfectly equipped observatory, and his occasional papers on celestial mechanics are received with the utmost respect hy scientific bodies, not because of his high position, but because of his excellence as a practical astronomer. But the little stars themselves whom the grand duke likes to Avhile away the hours by studying, do not shine any more brilliantly than he does today. And again like them he seems to be, inasmuch as even his cousin, his highness the czar, can't bring him WAR t" 1 s I d.-'V.- s j SYRIAN DESERT f nM can lias Nor-folk- '.,tt King George Knew Every Man Personally; England In Mourning and there a man stumbled Up By every J s- through gaps made b' the heavy guns. Erzerum is a city of about 40.000 and is about sixty miles west of the Russian frontier. It is surrounded by a stone wall built by the Turks three centuries ago. The city has belonged to the Turks for four centuries. This is a little fact which causes even the most desperate enemy of Duke Nicholas to smile, for they know that it is the way of Nicholas to care not a rap who owns anything if he happens to set his mind or his OWN GREA FAT OF 'KING'S Swallowed Forest; ; . At the left, a new portrait of Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia, and above, map showing the field of his brilliant operations In the campaign of the Caucasus resulting in the capture of Erzerum and also indicating positions of Russian forces in the Caucasus and British forces on the Tigris. small jolt to be told by his cousin now in a position to penetrate the that he had decided to take co- valley of the Tigris, where a British mmandthat he must fill the compar- army is defending Egypt. Thousands of Turks were taken atively unimportant position of commander of the army of the Caucasus. prisoners by the grand duke the minStransre as it may seem, the grand ute the fortress fell, and great stores duke didn't rise up and cry out of munitions and supplies have come against tlie unfairness of such treat- into his hands. This blow is the most ment, but in the manner that was so serious yet struck at Turkey. The characteristic of him, smiled, wished fall of Erzerum is expected to open his cousin "pood luck,' and started the way for a huge advance by the forth amid the gnashing of teeth of Russians through eastern Armenia. wise generals who gasped and uttered Constantinople is imperiled. By this the Russians are apt to bring Turkey "IIow like Nicholas!" .Today r - l H regiment Were they all slaughtered; or captured or actually astray in a foreign land? Mystifiedly. all Enghrd aks the question, and fearfully conjectures as to the fate of the Fifth Norfolk, the "King's Orn resident, at Anafarta. on WHICH RAILWAY tASILYLAID RaTN V'.' tA I ''vr'?iS ALEritp M irm 1 Vy 1tr&JpofJfffr ... ' flat-cheste- J ZIv mMtJffAMASCUS T SKA. V 5raniz.it i'in of lwy-hoo- d. T 7 ... S ) duke exercised marvelous strategy, and linking up the shattered remnants of his human ribbon of defense, he checked the Teuton advance into Russia. lint the intrigues f Pctrograd reached even his high estate, and he was summarily dwmissed as field commander in chief of the Russian army and sent in dicrrace to the Caucasus. It happens that from the very beginning of his military career, Nicholas was handieapped in various ways. Alexander III. the czar of his did not enjoy the contrast bed and tween his three ns and this young demigod puny before whom the peasants bowed in unconscious hornnce. No wonder it v as whispered even then that there vi as the future czar of all the is U i . S. v ttvn, N-- r E M 7 ... - V' V' K Many military writers believe that even in this great retreat the grand y5Yf & : . - vl r Vie R CT A -- Wft' C MEDITERRANEAN hap. M NAVAL ATTACK Crete :..f - a7 yJTtf&W railway . II nnurn . R r r yi j :'sVV.s S-l'i- J(. ptty rulers and officeh who. holders charge, denied sufficient ammunition to his advancing hen they pushed their lines Ifgio:; cf strd over the rugged Carpathians. This great lack of shells and cannon brought alnnit the downfall of th ftrt line of Ruian defenders, and b fi r0 the massed artillery of Von Maekensen and Vcn Hindenburg they wilted to annihilation end defeat at Warsaw and were driven ovr the Russian steppes fro:n ono fortrr. to another until the- present line if battle, scarring t!ie plain between liesrabia and Iftgn. took its 7- -S l trW q V lr-T(lTl'- or- - srlf-sekin- g n, y iCUXe m l irw i"a TbMV NICHOLAS of pRAND DUKE Russia, cousin to the czar, has graft-ridde- .S S. ) : "V P SEA K & Conservatory and His Well Equipped Observatory. that I, A C: " v X-- lill'1 .ifiii.l Great Obstacles and Skattered tlie Kaiser s Hopes IVXany J eA-e- ed eA-e- 3 inch of the forest. They returned with only two small pocket-book- s. Papers inside identified these as the property of Captain Beck. Long before Gallipoli Avas eA'acu-ate- d the forest retaken by the ered v Turkish troops and the mystery of the disappearance of the 200 was rendered more baffling than before. Not a word have the Turks spoken concerning the fate of the King's Own. From Switzerland several Aveeks ago came a dispatch, that thirteen of those Avho charged into tho forest Avere prisoners in Constantinople. But it developed that these men fell Avounded before the mysterious darkness of the forest Avas reached. At all the parish churches in West SunNorfolk prayers are said day for the safe return of the vanishing legion. And in every cottage there hangs a personal message from the king Avhich has brought hope in despair. "I heartily sympathize with you who are left in suspense," Avrites King George "but I am proud that the battalion fought so splendidly." For the king knew each and every man by name. Among those who charged Avith Captain Beck, the organizer of the legion and for twenty years the king's real estate agent, were the king's plumber, gardener, gamekeeper, Avoodman, golf foreman and scores of men in lesser positions. It's more than a half year noAV since they vanished in the forest at Anafarta. And what became of them still is echoing from West Norfolk down to the Dardanelles. eA-er- : y |