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And Jameson, who had just finished his Russian lesson he was working for the Civil Service examination was reading the last number of the Rouskoe Slovo. "Have you found anything interesting, Frantz Frantzovitch?" said Marie Nikolaevna to Jameson, as she handed him a glass of tea. "Yes, I have," answered the Englishman, looking up.
A vivid picture of conditions as they existed at this time in the Pripet Marshes may be formed from the following description from the pen of a special correspondent on the staff of the Russian paper "Russkoye Slovo": "The marshes," he writes, "have awakened from their winter sleep. Even on the paved roads movement is all but impossible; to the right and left everything is submerged.
On the Dvina near Smorgon and on the Shara there was spirited fighting, and also west of Lutsk there was a temporary revival of activity in consequence of reconnoitering thrusts. In describing the capture of Kalusz the "Russky Slovo" says that the Russian cavalry entered the town at noon and found it abandoned by the garrison.
After that he was tried and sentenced to life-exile in northern Siberia. From this he managed to escape, however, and from 1907 until the outbreak of the war in 1914 he lived in Vienna. The first two years of the war he lived in France, doing editorial work for a radical Russian Socialist daily paper, the Nashe Slovo.
"The wilfulness of military tribunals, culminating in many cases in apparent hatred against everything that is Czech, is shown by the following, out of many examples: "The editor of Ceske Slovo, E. Spatny, of Prague, was arrested on September 26, 1914, and interned in Prague, without being told the reason.
Well, listen," and he read out the following paragraph from the Rouskoe Slovo: "Samara, II, ix. In the centre of the town, in the Hotel , a band of armed swindlers attacked a German engineer named Braun and demanded money. On his refusal one of the robbers stabbed Braun with a knife. The robbers, taking the money which was on him, amounting to 500 roubles, got away.
The Russian phrase she used was "chestnoe slovo," "upon my honorable word." Waters caught his breath and listened anxiously. "I give you my honorable word that he is not here," she affirmed deliberately. "Now what do you know about that?" exclaimed Waters helplessly. From the rear of the room somebody piped up acutely: "Then why may the policeman not look, since nobody is there?"
The old name Slovene, Slavonians, is probably a derivative from the substantive which appears in Church Slavonic in the form slovo, a word; see Thomsen's Russia and Scandinavia, p. 8.
Among the Czech journals suppressed in Bohemia at the beginning of the war, the following deserve to be especially mentioned: Ceske Slovo, organ of the National Socialist Party; the editors have been imprisoned. The Lidove Noviny, organ of Dr. All Socialist journals were suppressed except Pravo Lidu and Rovnost.
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