MURDER OF MIRBACH.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1918, Page 5

MURDER OF MIRBACH.

"A GOOD THING FOR RUSSIA." Paris, July 8. M. Kerensky, referring to Count Mirbach, the German Ambassador, who was assassinated, said that while ho deplored the taking of human life, he was glad Count Mirbach had been killed. His death was a good thing for Russia; it might mark the beginning of the renaissanrc and initiate a Government in Moscow against Germany. The Germans were now certain to occupy Moscow. Count Mirbach was the real ruler of Russia, and got on well with Lenin and Trotsky—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Moscow, July 8. Two unknown men requested an interview with Count Mirbach on the pretext of nresenting a petition. They entered the Ambassador's room, where Herr Reigler, secretary of the legation, and a German officer were in attendance. One stranger fired two revolver shots, hitting Mirbach in the head, and the other threw three bombs, inflicting fatal injuries. The murderers escaped by the window. Herr Reigler and the officer were not injured. The murder has caused a tremendous sensation in political and military circles and grave developments are expected. Volcdarsky, the Bolshevik Government's press commissioner, has been killed by a revolver shot at Moscow. The murderer escaped.—Aus. N.Z. Cable -Assoc. London, July 8. A Russian wireless message says that Lenin, in informing the Ambassador (Jore) in Berlin of the murder of Count Mirbach, ordered him immediately to visit Baron von Kuhlmann and express indignation. Lenin, Sverlofer, Tchitcherin, and Karahan, on receipt of the news, immediately assured the Chief of the German Mission that extraordinary measures would be taken for the discovery .of the murderers. The whole quarter in which the Embassy is situated was immediately surrounded by troops and severe control established over arrivals and departures from the town. An extraordinary plenipotentiary will be dispatched to Berlin to express indignation.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter.