RUSSIA.
MURDER OP GRAND DUKE. NICHOLAS STARVED AND ILLTREATED. Received February 8, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 7. Petrograd reports that the Grand Duke 9 Paul, Nicholas, JJoity and George were shot on Januarv 21 in a courtyard of the Deniabimy prison by order of a speckl commission with 144 men and 28 women who v.ere accused of participating in the alleged Anglo-French intrigues. Grand Duke Nicholas was arrested in December and confined to a small cell with fourteen others. Owing to starvation and ill-treatment Nicholas was too weak to walk, being carried to the place of execution in a wheelbarrow, >vhere in he wa9 shot. Jailors and Chinese provided the firing party.—Times Service. SOVIET GUARANTEES. PEACEFUL DEVELOPMENT. . London, Feb. 7. The Soviet guarantees! the interest on the Russian debts, giving raw materials in payment of the interest, and in willing to place concessions for mines and forests before the citizens of tha Entente— A-us.-NZ. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1919, Page 7
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