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 to Archbishop Platon of Kishinev, in which I asked for money. No reply came. I wrote several times with the same result. I came to Russia on May 15, 1915, and after having petitioned Platon in vain about the refund of my money which he had taken for safekeeping in the American Mission Bank I returned to my native town, and sent Platon my home address. Soon after I came to my relatives in the town of Cherikov, in the Government of Moghilov. Four Gendarmes came to my house and made a most



thorough search from within and without, but found nothing compromising. Yet, their colonel declared that I was to be placed under arrest. I replied that I had not come to Russia to be arrested, and added that I had declared my intention to become a American citizen and, taking out my first papers, I showed them to the infuriated Colonel. He glanced at the papers and in his