Our people are using to-day to enter the results of the discussion in a report of proceedings, as the sitting is to be continued to-morrow, when territorial questions will be brought up.
"_December 26, 1917._--I have been out for a long walk alone.
"On the way back, I met an old Jew.

He was sitting in the gutter, weeping bitterly.

He did not beg, did not even look at me, only wept and wept, and could not speak at first for sobs.

And then he told me his story--Russian, Polish, and German, all mixed together.
"Well, he had a store--heaven knows where, but somewhere in the war zone.

First came the Cossacks.