All women must feel terribly sorry for the Grand Duchess jus of though it seems to be generally that latest sorrow her in dis-
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idowhood may prove happier than her wifehood everyone must hope. It is said that owing to the terrible scene' through which she has passed recently her health hn completely broken down. She sis to return to Darmstadt with the Grand Duke of Hesse for a lengthened visit. One wonders will ever return to Russia,: as it can have none but sad associations for her.
The North Sea Trouble.
The verdict of the Commission of Inquiry into the firing on British trawlors by the Ri Baltic fleet soams, in sion of the real facts, to be regarded as quite satisfactory by most people, but I must own that I can't quite understand it. We are told that Admiral Rozhdiestvensky was "not justified in firing on the trawlers," and that "the firing was unnecessarily prolonged" If he was not justified in firing at all it seems to me that it is absurd to sty that the fung was "unnecessarily prolonged." Also we are told that "no disparagement is cast either on the military ability or the humane sentiment of either the Admiral or his mon". Surely to fre on boats without justification, and to the peril and loss of. human lives is to be "wanting. in human sentiment." No one seems to see this, and even Germany thinks.we ought to be entirely satisfied with the verdict, and it is said that undoubtedly Admiral Rozhdiestvensky will not be punished; but I suppose it is all right, though I am quite sure that if any one dear tome ba been killed in the adventure I should not bink so.
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