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Show TRYING TIMES ' 'I FOR PRISONERS Former Russian Minister and jl Wives in Panic When B Fortress Surrenders. PETROGRAD, Sunday, July 22.' H Ministers In office before tho revolu H tlon who are now Imprisoned In the1 H fortress of St. Peter and SL Paul had a trying experience last week at the H time of tho occupation of the fortress! H by tho radical Bolshevik! and Kron-. H stadt sailors, an element of whom in- H sisted on Immediate removal of the' , H prisoners to Kronstadt ; H When the fortress was surrendered) H former Premier Sturmer had sue-. H cumbed to the strain and was uncon IH sclous, the Bourse Gazette reports. H Mme. Soukhomllnoff, wife of the for-' H mer minister of war, is said to have H pleaded with her guards to furnish her H some means of committing suicide,. H fearing she would be lynched. Efforts' H to remove the prisoners to Kronstadt' IH were resisted by the guards. The' H early surrender of the fortress doubL-i H less prevented fulfillment of the de-- H The former Imperial family also was1 H greatly alarmed. Assurances were1 given . Nicholas, however, that ho , would be protected by the garrison. nn 5 |