The Ordway new era., 1918-07-12
AMBASSADOR
ASSASSINATED
COUNT Won MIRsAcH SHOT ~
UNKNOWN MEN Dies ALMOST
INSTANTLY.
MOVE TO SAVE RUSSIA
v. Q. MARINES LANDED As AMER
lcA JOINS ALLIES TO KEEP
sLAvs FROM HUN.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Paris, July 8.-Gen. Count Won Mir
bach, German ambassador to Russia,
has been assapsiuated in Moscow, ac-
cording to Berlin report received by
the Havas agency. Two unknown
men aoked for an audience with the
German ambassador Saturday morn
ing, then attacked him, wounding him
with shots from a revolver. They fol-
lowed this by throwing grenades.
Won Mirbach died almost instantly.
The assassins fled and have not been
arrested.
Washington.-Russia is to be res
cued from the clutches of the mon
ster OF Berlin.
At conference at the White House
Saturday. the position which the
United States will take regarding In
tervention in the country which Pres
ident Wilson described in his Mount
Vernon speech as for the moment un-
organized and helpless was decided
on.
It is believed that, acting in accord
with the wishes of the allied council
which met at Versailles, military &C.
ton will be taken. United States ma
rines already have landed at Vladiv-
ostok and Kola.
The Czecho Slovaks, who broke
away from Austria Hungary, are ex-
pected to form the nucleus of the
army to operate in Russia.
From Toxic comes word that ia
pan will refuse to take part in any
Intervention in Siberia, unless the
United States joins the other allies
in requesting Japan TO act.
Leaders of the Murmansk coast
people recently appealed to the Amer
lean and allied consuls at Kola for
protection. German troops are re-
ported to the southwark on the rail-
road leading to the Arctic at Kola.
With the allied naval forces guarding
a store OF supplies at Kola and along
the railroad, the Murman coast is one
of the possible fields for operations
by the allies in the east under the
new policy toward Russia.
Copenhagen.-The entire population
of the Murmansk coast (on the Kola
peninsula bordering the White sea and
the Arctic) has broken with Russia
and Joined the entente, according to
dispatch to vardoe, Norway. to the
Christiana Tidens Tegn. A supply OF
provisions from the United States has
arrived at Murmansk, the dispatch
says.
London, July 8-The Australian
troops advanced their line northeast
Of Villers Bretonneux on front of
1000 yards, according to Field Mar
shal Haig's report from British head |
quarters in France
The Italians have succeeded in clear |
ing the Austrians out of a very consid-
cradle part of the terrain the enerny
had been clinging to near the north
mouth of the Piave. between the new
and old beds Of the river.
In hard fighting the Austrian resist |
ance was broken in the area close to
the Adriatic. General Diaz's troops
moving the invaders across the new
bed from Grisolera to the sea. approx
imately five miles. Vienna admits a
loss Of ground here.
There is nothing but compliments |
for the Americans upon the occasion
of their first appearance in an attach
side by side with British troops. To |
the Australians who formed the major |
portion of the force which carried out |
the brilliant Fourth of July attack on
the Amiens front, northeast of Viilers-
is conceded the larger
part Of the glory. The hitherto un-
tried American troops are coming in |
for the highest praise for the part they
took in the fighting through Hamel.