FATE OF THE EX-TSAR.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 July 1918, Page 3

FATE OF THE EX-TSAR.

CONFLICTING RUMOURS. London, June 30. Conflicting rumours, interspersed with denials and allegations, continue | to pour in from Russia through Scandinavian and German sources. | German wireless messages enlarge j upon the story that the Bolsheviks have been overthrown at Moscow, in- ; dicating that the Germans believe ! that the Bolsheviks' rule is breaking up, and that they are endeavouring to establish a pro-German monarchical government. Leading Russians in London discredit the idea that General Korniloff and the Grand Duke Nicholas will become German tools. -The latest story from the Paris Matin is that the Bolsheviks' situation is desperate, and their downfall is expected at any moment. The nervous tension in Petrograd is intense. Red Guards are patrolling .the. streets and shooting passers-by. Czechs have stopped the Siberian supply of cereals, and hundreds are dying of hunger. Further Scandinavian accounts say that the former Tsar was murdered In a train during an angry altercation cancerning the treatment he received. I A Basle report states that the Court at Darmstadt has been informed by the Russian Ambassador at Berlin that the ex-Tsar is safe. London, July 2. The Petrograd correspondent of the "Times" staets that the report cf the murder of the former Tsar was much elaborated by the bourgeois press. The Soviet commissioners describe the report as a base fabrication, and claim to have ascertained that when the former Empress and her children emerged from the train at Perm station Nicholas was not present.