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AMERICAN RED CROSS
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CABLE DEPARTMENT

WASHINGTON, D.C.

COPY OF CABLE RECEIVED FROM RUSSIAN COMMISSION. PETROGRAD, RUSSIA

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Her return to Petrograd, was the climax of the Revolution and the moving spectacle in a hundred years. Stop.
A Government delegation by the then Minister of Justice, Kerensky, was present to welcome the aged heroine of the long struggle for freedom in Russia. Stop.
It seems as if the whole population of Petrograd, chanting the Marseillaise, had turned out to greet this most intrepid and devoted of the Revolutionary leaders of History. Stop.
Since then she has occupied quarters in the Winter Palace of the Tszars, overlooking the Grey Walls of the Fortress of Peter and Paul, in whose dungeons she has spent long years. Stop.
To her reception room lead all the roads in Russia, and all sorts of people, from Minister Kerensky and the poorest Moujik, seek her council. Stop.
She advises and helps all comers, and is giving her remaining years to consolidate the gains of the Revolution and help create a stable Government for the Democratic Russia. Stop.
She is brave, simple and unspoiled. Stop.
Madame Breshkovsky is known to many in America where she visited 12 yeasr ago.
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