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honesty, and wonder whether the world treated him 

 kindly. That when he reached Krasnoyarsk he would 

 be claimed for military service can scarcely be doubted. 

 Russia, who needed all her men for the titanic struggle 

 in the West, was not likely to overlook one so fine as 

 Joseph Prokopchuk. 



Early on the morning of 5th September we reached 

 Nosonovsky Ostrov. 



