MURDER OF MILIUKOFF.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17420, 3 April 1922, Page 7

MURDER OF MILIUKOFF.

TSARIST OFFICERS ARRESTED. JBy Cable—Pr«sa Association^—Cbpyrigilit.) ißtutor'n Twlegrum.) BERLIN. March 31. Two Tsarist officers, Schabelski and Tabovitski, have been arrested. The former confessed that lie went to the Philharmonic Hall for the purpose of killing M. ' Miliukoff, whom he regarded as responsible for Russia's misfortunes. He theatrically harangued the police officials in justification of his deed. It appears that amid the confusion following the assassination, a number of the audience overpowered the, assassins as they stood on the platform holding their smoking revolvers. The police believe the plot wa3 hatched by extremists attending the Monarchist Congress in Berlin. Other arrests are likely. [A previous message said: —A dramatic platform murder, in the presence of 1200 persons, was committed in the Philharmonic Hall. M. Miliukoff, leader of the Russian Cadet Party, was speaking, when two Russian Monarchists commenced firing from the front row of the stalls. There was an instant panic. His friends on the platform tried to protect M. Miliukoff. Others dashed down and seized his assailants. M. Nabokoff, an ex-member of the Russian Supreme Court, was shot through interposing his body to save M. Miliukoff. Six others were wounded.]