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Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1926, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

Tin: WAY OF TilK GERMAN. BERLIN. January 1

“ Klnock the Jew down and kill him.” shouted Baron von Engelliarilt as he came out of the Milhelma, a big beer-restaurant frequented by German enthusiasts, and saw before him Dr Gregorius itelson. a learned Jew. who is 71 years old.

The baron then knocked the old man down, left him hall-conscious and with las lace covered with blood mi the pavement, and made oil. A taxicab chauffeur saw tho incident and gave the baron in charge to the police. This incident happened, it may he tinted, in one of the most frequented streets of Berlin. RUSSIANS TOLD OF CZAR’S MURDER. RIGA, January 1. Because of numerous legends circulating in Russih that the Czar Nicholas and his family are still alive and hiding in England, awaiting a favourable moment to return to Russia, the Petrogrnd “ Krasnva Gazette.” of December 23 publishes a, two-column account of the Czar’s murder tit Ekaterinburg on the night of July 10, 1918. The .story the “Garotte” publishes relates how tho Cheka agents discovered a note which the Czar had hidden in the cork of a milk bottle that he hud given to one of the nuns who had been supplying the family with food. This ran:

Now is the time to effect our rescue. The day has arrived for our friends to unite. The Slav army is approaching Ekaterinburg, only a few versts away. Tt is necessary to take immediate action.—Nicholas.

A few days later a. courier arrived from Moscow bearing tbe decree for the Czar’s immediate execution. When Yurovski shot him the Czar threw his arms around his son and sank lo tho floor; crossing himself.

After the whole family had been shot the bodies of the Czar and his wife and children were brought outside the town to a forest, where the Commissar Wvkoff—the present Soviet Ambassador to Poland—superintended their destruction with sulphuric acid and petroleum.

The story of the “Krasnva Gazette” created a. tremendous stir in Petrogrnd, whose population for the first time read the gruesome details of the execution. Tt is reported here that the Communists are just as displeased as the populace, and the editor of the paper has been ordered to resign. [lt will be noted that tho details of tho Ekaterinburg crime now given officially agree with previous accounts published in this country.]