One day, walking along a country lane near my Devonshire cottage, I heard the crack of a gun, and my hat flew off. When I picked it up there was a bullet hole through it.
A year later I was shaving in the bathroom, when there was a roar like that of an elephant-gun.
My wife shouted: 'Look out.' It would have been too late if the man with the gun had been a good shot.
The bullet came through the open window and made a big hole in a heavy piece of antique furniture—it was an explosive bullet.
I ran out, but could see nothing in the fog.
I have no proof—but I suspect the Ogpu should be blamed for both attempts."
Colonel Kaledin was the son of the Governor-General of the Ukraine. His English mother died when he was a month old.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.