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Show SEVERE MEASURES AT GREAT PALACE Deposed Empercr Under Strict Keeping on Account oi Flight Rumors. UNDER VAST PRISON Great Underground System Visited by Associated Press Correspondent. TSARSKOESELO, Sunday, March 25, via London, March 26, 1 13 p. m. Penetrating today inio and under thej vast prison palace of Nicholas Romanoff, Roma-noff, the deposed emperor, the correspondent corre-spondent ot thv Associated Press today obtained from the jailei the first reliable reli-able statement of the former emptor's empt-or's condition, and later visited the desecrated grave of Gregory Rasputin, Russia's real autocrat for a decade, and the unlntending parent of the revolution. rev-olution. Since the visit paid by ihe correspondent corre-spondent to the palace last week, severe se-vere measures have been taken to guard the prisoner. These grew out of rumors of an attempted flight, monarchist mon-archist conspiracies against the temporary tem-porary government and pressure by ex tremlst forces. The guards have been increased and a special representative of tho council of deputies put among them. On announcing his desire to visit the grave of Rasputin the sol-1 dicrs demanded his passport of the Associated As-sociated Press correspondent, then led him to tho kitchen entrance of the, palace prison, which is the headquai ' ters of the guards. Behind the kitchen entrance stands a complex system of low buildings built around a courtyard and ending in a series of subterranean and seml-Bubterranean seml-Bubterranean galleries, running the whole way under the palace. The, first of the two entries leads under in arched portico into a smnll, untidy, courtyard surrounded by on story Dutiaings At The second entrance were four sentries of the First Tirailleur Tirail-leur regiment, from which, out of the five regiments now garrisoned in Tsar-skoe Tsar-skoe Selo were chosen the guards, as the result of the regiment' revolutionary revolution-ary conduct at Kiev ten years ago. Crowded With Soldiers. Inside the second entry a small hall crowded with soldiers, an ill painted il:on with red lamps burning hangs over a dingy wooden desk at which the soldiers note the names of all those entering. At the back of the hall are two lateral staircases with a gallon on top. All this part of the palace Is dirty, dingy, ill lighted and unimpressive. Be-i yond the lateral staircases lies the mysterious part of the palace Lead-i ing away from between tho staircases , runs an interminable vaulted gallery,, broken by shorter right and left trans-i verse galleries All are vindowless. 1 At nearly every other door on the longl gallery- a telephone is affixed. Asking I his soldier escoit if these telephones were connected with the spy and pro-teethe pro-teethe systems, the correspondent got the answer: "Precisely so." Meets Officer of Day The rooms off the gallery seem also to be underground, but judging by their ornamented padlocked door., they are not cellars. Two only bear an inscription. in-scription. One reads: ' Ser ants of the most august children;" the other bears' a placard from pre-revolutionar times showing it to have been the bureau! of the officer of the day of Emperor! Nicholas' underground guard. In tins' room, to which he was led by a sol-! dler, tho correspondent met the off i-1 cor of the day, Captain Bowers, who sharply censured the man for bringing the correspondent and who said to him : "You are the only person other than a soldier or prisoner who has passed through the galleries since the revolution." revolu-tion." Sent to Rasputin's Grave. The captain sent the correspondent to the palace commandant, Captain of Cavalry Kotzebuc Captain Kotzebue's headquarters are in an angle of an old and now untenanted section of the Tsarskoe-Selo palace. He gave the correspondent a soldier escort and a permit to pass along the road to Rasputin's Ras-putin's grave. The captain is Nicholas' Nicho-las' chief jailer. He is youthful and urbane, an officer of tho guard type, speaking perfect French and English. Emperor Has Crying Spells. "Tho former emperor is not under detention, but in all respects a prisoner pris-oner and is treated accordingly," said Captain Koesebue. 'He is in perfei good health and in fairly good spirits. V hen he is with his own entourage he has fits of crying. . He is no longer j allowed in vhe park, but twice daily, from 11 to 3 o'clock, he Is permitted I to walk for recreation in the railed I garden between the east and west wings of the palace |