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Rh "I don't know," I replied. "They say that we must have permission from the governor-general of Eastern Siberia,

and of course we can't get that in three months — perhaps not in six months."

Mr. Wurts wrote a polite note to the chief of the bureau of passports in the Foreign Office, asking for information with regard to the alleged refusal of the police to allow two American citizens to leave the Empire. I delivered the