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my practice has extended recently to the continent said holmes after a while filling up his old brier root-pipe i was consulted last week by franois le villard who as you probably know has come rather to the front lately in the french detective service he has all the celtic power of quick intuition but he is deficient in the wide range of exact knowledge which is essential to the higher developments of his art The case was concerned with a will and possessed some features of interest.

I was able to refer him to two parallel cases, the one at Riga in 1857 and the other at St. Louis in 1871, and have suggested to him the true solution.

Here is the letter which I had this morning, acknowledging my assistance.

He tossed over, as he spoke, a crumpled sheet of foreign notepaper.

So that, said Enver, if it really came about, the next war would be for Vanderlip and should be known as Vanderlip's War.

when i asked would you be sorry to see america and japan at war he replied not if england was involved anything which tends to draw england's attention away from us or which weakens their great powers naturally gives turkey a better chance for reconstruction you understand that i'm not saying i want to see another war i am simply saying that if those nations interested in destroying turkey are occupied elsewhere it relieves us of war burdens and gives us a chance to carry out our own destinies he tried to get mr vanderlip's reaction on women by the same tactics he employed with the actress one day he said i have three wives and i am looking for another this was not true but mr vanderlip proved entirely gullible good heavens he said regarding enver in shocked surprise we anglo-saxons consider one wife enough tyranny naturally enver conceded suavely with one there must be tyranny but with three or four or a hundred ah you must agree that is quite a different matter his sudden appearance in moscow during the blackest days of the blockade as well as the blackest days for the central powers proves him an incomparable soldier of fortune with two suits of clothes a pair of boots a good revolver and a young german mechanician whom he could trust he started by aeroplane from berlin to moscow The story of how they had to land because of engine trouble near Riga, of how he was captured and spent two months in the Riga jail, just at the moment when the whole Allied world was calling loudest for his blood, will remain a story which will have scanty advertisement from those British Secret Service men who like so well to turn journalists and write their own brave autobiographies.

enver sat in the rig of jail as plain mr altman who could not speak anything but german he was scrutinized by every secret service man in the vicinity and pronounced unanimously a jewish german communist of no importance by appearing humble inoffensive and pleasant he soon worked his way into the confidence of the warden and was released and escaped to moscow he arrived just in time to rush off for the dramatic baku conference the communists understood perfectly well that enver pasha was not at the oriental conference as a sudden and sincere convert to internationalism and he knew that they knew both zinoviev and enver were actors taking the leading roles in a significant historical pageant the results are really all that matter since the motives will soon be forgotten When Enver turned to Moscow, he had no other place to turn to, and when Zinoviev took him to Baku, Zinoviev knew no other means of effectively threatening the English in order to change their attitude on the blockade.

Zinoviev could not complain about Enver's shallow attitude towards socialism, since there was hardly anything socialistic about Zinoviev's appeal for a, quote, holy war, end quote.

And as Russia's war in Ukraine intensifies, Moscow's aggression is spilling beyond its borders, from drone incursions to suspected cable cuts.

EU News' EU correspondent Angela Skuchin spoke exclusively to Kirill Budanov, head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, at the Riga conference, asking whether the Baltic states are getting the Russian threat right.

Currently, it is not only the Baltic states, but also, for example, Central European countries that are facing certain aggressive forms of hybrid threats from the Russian Federation in the form of targeted operations.

That was Kyrioulou Boudanoff

speaking to Angelos Koujits.

And now let's go live to Riga, where Euronews' EU editor Maria Tadeo is standing by for us.

Good morning, Maria.

What's the latest there?

The knights were far from really controlling the whole country.

The Archbishop of Riga and his four suffragan bishops enjoyed virtual independence in their sees.

The important cities of Dorpat, Riga, and Reval, members of the Hanseatic League, constituted little republics of a pronounced Protestant type.

Moreover, the country gentry in each of the three lands formed a corporation of their own, which still further curtailed the power of the nominal masters.

Such a loose structure must break down at the first serious attack.

As everywhere else, they neglected the education of the common people, but took extreme pains to draw the sons of the nobility to their establishments, and successfully.

These establishments were munificently endowed by Stephen, as was also the university which he founded at Wilna in the midst of a population partly of the Protestant, partly of the Russian Greek faith.

They penetrated into Lutheran Livonia also, and founded colleges at Riga and Dorpat, in spite of the opposition of the inhabitants.

He likewise frequently got drams of excellent brandy amongst them, and his shoes being worn out by traveling, they gave him a pair of good wooden ones, which sat very awkwardly on his English feet.

About six or seven days' travel through this wild country he came to Riga, a large town and famous seaport.

Here he met with many English merchants and commanders of vessels, who were very kind to him.

He tarried two days in Riga to rest and refresh himself, during which the English merchants and commanders provided lodgings and other accommodations for him, collecting upwards of fifty shillings for him.

Having expressed his utmost gratitude towards his good benefactors, he again pursued his journey, subsisting himself sometimes on the charity of the inhabitants of the country, and at other times milking the cows upon the mountains or in the woods.

The next place of note he arrived at was the city of Danzig, in the kingdom of Poland.

The case was concerned with the will, and possessed some features of interest.

I was able to refer him to two parallel cases, the one at Riga in 1857, and the other at St. Louis in 1871, which have suggested to him the true solution.

Here is the letter which I had this morning, acknowledging my assistance.

He tossed over, as he spoke, a crumpled sheet of foreign notepaper.

I remember seeing in, you know, some of the open source channels.

Oh, you know, there's this military plane and it's over the Riga.

And then suddenly everybody was able to figure out that it was it was Ratcliffe.

So so the question is also, like, why are they telegraphing this? Because the NATO narrative was was seemingly ready to go.