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fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] NEW, YORK, July 20. A Russian yireless message ■ announces that tho ex-Czar has been shot. The ex-Czar was shot because a counter-revolution seeking to restore him to power was being plotted. EMPRESS AND SON SAFE. WASHINGTON, July 20. When Ykaterinberg. capital of Rod Urals was threatened recently by the advancing CYsecho-Sloaaks, seeking to liberate the Czar, the President of the Ural Regional Connell decided to shoot the Czar. Te decision was carried out 0.1 15th July. The Empress and son were placed in safety.
ALLIED INTERVENTION. •AUSTRALIAN & 5.7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION] TOKIO, July 19th. The Cabinet, in response to overtures from America, decided in iavcur of Japanese intervention. LONDON, July 20th. A message from Tokio confirms that Allied intervention in Siberia has been practically arranged.
SHOOTING THE EX-CZAR. (Received Yesterday at 11.10. p.m.) •. » LONDON, July 20. Wireless Russian official. —The Central Executive Committee lias made public a message from the Ural region Council concerning the shooting of tho ex-Czar, which says Ekateringburg being seriously threatened by tho approach of Czecho-Slovaks and simultaneously a counter revolutionary conspiracy to wrest the ex-Czar from the Council’s authority, was discovered in the Ural region. The Council therefore decided to shoot the ex-Czar Nicholas, which decision was enforced on the 16th.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1918, Page 4
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