Foreign News: Matoushka Tsaritsa

RUSSIA

"Matoushka Tsaritsa"

With savage humor the Soviet news organ Besbozhnik (The Atheist) informed the sovereign proletariat of Moscow, last week, that Death had come to "BullNecked Alex's Old Woman."

Outside of Soviet Russia "BullNecked Alex" is better known as the late Tsar of all the Russias Alexander III (reigned 1881-1894).

The strapping Autocrat's "Old Woman," who died last week in Copenhagen, Denmark, was the onetime Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna, sister of the late British Queen-Empress Alexandra, sister of the assassinated King George I of Greece, aunt of the present Kings of England,...

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