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Show PROPHESIES ABOUT THE WAR. Since the opening of the war there have been published a great number of prophesies which foretold the coming of the con-flict con-flict and in a vague way hint at how it might close. One of these visions, said to have been the product of a monk of the sixteenth -century named Johannes, was published in the fall of 1914 and is again going the rounds of the press. The prophesy attributed to Johannes reads much like it was first written in 1914 and has very little ear marks of a product of four hundred years ago than a few little references flung in to give it a flavoring of that period. Perhaps the most interesting prophesy on the war was that , of Count Leo Nikolaievitch Tolstoy, the Russian novelist and social so-cial reformer, published a short while before his death in 1910. In it he foretold the war more or less in detail and the author himself him-self was so impressed with the vision that he presented it to the czar. It was" widely read before the war on account of its literary liter-ary merit and the strangeness of what it foretold. In his vision Tolstoy said the world war was scheduled to begin in 1913 and that in 1916 a new Napoleon would arise and dominate Europe for a number of years. This great military leader, he said, would be followed by a man from the humble walks of life who would weild a world-wide influence. This man, he said, was a Mongolian slav, unknown to the public at that time, and would remain in the dark-, dark-, ness until the hour of recognition. The character pictured by Count Tolstoy has a close resemblance resemb-lance to Leon Trotzky, Russian minister of foreign affairs. Ac- cording to the prophet this Mongolian slav was to reform the political, poli-tical, social and religious affairs of the world. Trotsky has the . appearance df a Mongolian-Slav, and only a few months ago the world had never heard of him. And even now very little is known of him. Beginning last Sunday the Salt Lake Tribune commenced the publication of the Trotzky book, "The Bolsheviki and World Peace." The Tribune might add interest to the story by giving in connection the Tolstoy vision of the mystery man of humble -origin who he said was to play such an important part in the war. |