Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-23
EX-CZAR EXECUTED
AFTER DISCOVERY Of
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY
Central Executive Committee
of BoISheyik Government
Says UraI Regional Councils
Order Carried Out July 10

LONDON. July 2o.-Former Emperor
Nicholas. OF Russia, has been snot. a
Russian wireless statement today an
nounces.
The former empress and the young
Alexis Romanoff. the former heir APP
parent. have been sent to a place of
security.
The Central executive body of the
Bolshevik government announces that it
has at its disposal important material
documents concerning the former en-
peror's affairs. including his own
diaries.
The message announces that a counter
revolutionary conspiracy was discovered
with the object of wrestling the eX-
emperor from the authority of the
soviet council. In view of this fact the
president of the Ural regional. council
decided TO execute the former ruler
and the decision was carried out on
July 16.
Documents concerning the conspiracy
which was discovered were forwarded
10 Moscow by a special messenger. 1t
had been recently decided, the mes
sage explains, to bring the ex-emperor
before a tribunal "to be tried for MS
currences, however, led to delay III
adopting this course
The former emperor's correspondence
including many letters from the MONK
Rasputin. who was killed nearly year
before the revolution, written to the
emperor and his family, will be pub
Iished in the near future, the wireless
message declares.
Text of Message
The text of the Russian wireless mes
sage reads:
AT the first session of the central
executive committee elected by the NTH
congress of the councils, a message was
made public that had been received by
direct wire from the Ural regional coun-
Gil concerning the shooting OF the eN-
Car Nicholas Romanoff.
Recently Yekaterinburg, the capital
OF the Red Urals was seriously threat
ened by the approach of Czecho-SloVaK
hands and a counter revolutionary. con-
spiracy was discovered which had as Its
object of wrestling of the ex-czar from
the hands OF the councils authority. In
view of this fact, the president of the
UraI region council decided to shoot
the ex-czar and the decision was car
ried out on July 16.
THE wife and son of Nicholas Roman
OF have been sent to a place of security.
Documents concerning the conspiracy
which was discovered have been for
warded to Moscow by a special messen-
ger. 1t had been recently decided to
bring the ex-czar before a tribunal to
be tried for his crimes on the people
and later occurrences led to delay in
adopting this course.
'sThe presidency of the central exec
utive committee having discussed the
circumstances which compelled the Ural
Regional. council 20 take its decisions
70, shoot Nicholas Romanoff decided as
follows:
Decision Was Regular"
The Russian central executive COM
nittee in the person of its president,
accept the decision of the UraI regional
council as being regular -,
The central executive committee has
now at its disposal extremely impor-
ant material documents concerning the
affairs of Nicholas Romanof-his dia-
ries. which he kept almost up to his
last days; the diaries OF his wife, his
children and his correspondence,
amongst which are the. letters Of Greg
orv Rasputin TO the Romanoff family.
These materials will be examined and
published in the near future."... - -r G.
There have been rumors since June
% that former Emperor Nicholas OF
Russia had been assassinated. There
seemingly is no question that today's
dispatch is authentic. 1t comes i'm the
form of a Russian wireless dispatch,
and, as the wireless plants of Russia
are under control of the Bolshevik, it
appears that it is an official version of
the death of the former emperor. 500