RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

i FATE OF THE. CZAR. CONFIRMATION OF HIS DEATH. Received July 21, 5.5 p.m. New York, July 20. A Russian wireless message announces that the ex-Czar was shot- A later message states that the cx-€zar was shot because a counter-revolution, seeking to restore hini to power, was being plotted. —Press Assoc. Received July 21, 5.40 p.m. New York, July 20When Ykaterinburg, the capital of the Red Urals, was threatened recently by the advancing Czecho-Slovaks seeking to liberate the Czar, the president of the Ural Regional Council decided to shoot the Czar, and that decision was carried out on July 15, the Empress and her son being placed in safety.—Press Assoc. London, July 20Received July 21, 5.5 p.m. Messages from ToWo confirm that Allied intervention in Siberia has practically been arranged. , Received July 2-2, 12.30 a.m. .J London, July: 20. - Wireless Russian official:—The Central Executive Committee has made .public a message from the Ural Regional Council, concerning the shooting of the ex-Czar, which says that Ekterlnburg is being seriously threatened by the approach of the Czecho-Slovaks, and, simultaneously, a counter-revolutionary conspiracy to wrest the ex-Czar from the council's au. thority was discovered. The Ural Regional Council, therefore, decided to shoot the ex-Czar Nicholas, which decision was enforced on July 16. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. Received July 22, 12.30 a.m. London, July 20. Italian official:—Our detachments at Adamells captured Mount Stable and completely re-occupied Cornodicavents., The enemy attacked, westward of Hill 1050, Macedonia. We held up the thrust and our counter-attack comgelled the enemy to retire in disorder.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assoc, and Reuter.