MURDERED GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 140, 2 March 1918, Page 8

MURDERED GENERAL

DUKHONIN'S TERRIBLE DEATH AT MOB'S HANDS. Tlie Stockholm correspondent of tho Paris "Matin" quotes an eye-witness for the following account of the niurder of General Dukhoilin, the late Russian Cominander-in-Chief, at Mohileff:— The general appeared at the window of his railway carriage. "Throw us your epaulettes!" shrieked the soldiers, or we'll kill you," and they shouldered their rifles.

Krylenko (Lenin's Commander-in-Chief) begged the general to give way to them, but Dukhonin refused. , "They can go to the deuce," he crind. "Let them kill mol"

A bullet whistled' by, breaking the. window, then a' second. General Odintzeff went up to Dukhonin and gently took off his epaulettes. They were thrown to the mob and were quickly torn to pieces and trampled underfoot. His two orders followed, and for a moment we thought he was saved. Then a handful of sailors jumped into the carriage. They seized Dukhoniri' by the shoulders and pushed him to the end of the coach and then on to the platform. Krylenko ran after them. j ' The general's appearance caused a great uproar. "Kill him right out!" they screamed. "Kerensky and Korniloflt got off. Men like him muet be killed at once!"

As the mob pushed closer and closer upon the general, Krylenko stormed and shouted, hut no one took any notice. With a single blow th 6 gonoral was struck down by a tall sailor from the rebel cruiser Aurora. Dukhonin got on his feet again at once, his face streaming wit'i blood. He tried to speak, but a dozen bayonets were run through'him. Grotesque and horrible scenes followed. I cnuld no longer look on and clashed back into the carriage, where I found Krvlenko sitting in a corner, his face in his hands. When he lifted his head I saw he waR as pale as doath. "Lonk at them," he said in a whisper. "There's no holding them in now. I and all the rest of us must come to the same e'nd." '