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Show FORMER MINISTER ESCAPESLYNCHING PETROGRAD, Oct. 31. Alexander D. Protopopof, former minister of tho interior and one of the leading reactionaries re-actionaries of the old regime, has been removed from the fortress of St Peter and St. Paul to a hospital on account of ill health. After his romovai he was threatened with lynching by a group of soldiers who broke in the hospital and demanded to bo assured of the truthfulness of tho statement that his condition was serious. The hospital authorities succeeded in placating pla-cating the soldiers and Protopopof was not harmed. |