Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-07-12
GERMANY BREAKS
WITH RUSSIA ON
DEATH Of ENVOY
Kaiser Plans Revenge for Murder
of Mirbach.
HALTS FARLEY WITH LEVINE
Assassination of Ambassador in Mos.
COW Followed by Bloody Revolt
BoIshevik Troops Defeat
RevoIutonists.


Berne, July 9-The Muenchener
Zeitung announces that the German
foreign secretary, Richard Won kuehl-
mann has resigned.
London, July 9.-As soon as EN-
peror William heard of the assassina-
ton of Count Won Mirbach, the Ger
man ambassador to Russia, according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Russia, he ordered Secretary Won
Kuehlmann to break off negotiations
with the Russian delegates in Berlin.
A strong guard has been placed be-
fore the house of the bolshevik ambas-
sador in Berlin, as it is feared the pop
ulace of the capital will inaugurate
anti-Russian demonstrations.
All the German newspapers declare
the murder of Count Won Mirbach must
inevitably have a great influence on
Russo-G German relations.
,Lenine in Fear of Huns.
Lenine, the bolshevik premier, is en-
deavoring to placate the Germans by
appointing an extraordinary commits
sion of investigation" to probe the
death of Count Won Mirbach. The COM
mission is headed by "Comrade Pc
ters.''
Meanwhile Berlin is doing it's utmost
to make capital out of the murder OF
Mirbach. A German official account
of the assassination concludes:
.'The result of a preliminary inquiry
permits the assumption that agents in
the service Of the entente are impli-
Gated in the affair"
Hundreds Arrested in Moscow.
Several hundred Russians, including
the social revolutionary leader Alexan-
drovich, have been arrested at Mos
COW.
Fragmentary reports from various
sources Indicate that the assassination
of Count Won Mirbach, was accompa-
MED by a formidable uprising in Mos
COW against the bolsheviki.
A Russian wireless dispatch claims
that the uprising has been completely
suppressed, and indicates that the sup
preston was sanguinary, the orders
being that all who resisted should be
"shot on the spot
The Russian wireless also circulated
the following, signed by M. Araloff,
the chief Moscow commissioner:
Claims Revolt Suppressed.
'sThe social revolutionists, by fraud
ulent means, captured for a few hours
small part of Moscow and the gov
eminent telegraph office, whence they
issued false reports of the suppression
of the soviet in Moscow.
ST beg to announce that the mutiny
was caused by a group of cheeky fools
and was suppressed without difficulty
by the Moscow garrison. The mutt
neers have been arrested and order
has been restored.
Several hundred participants in the
rising have been arrested, among them
Vice Chairman Alexandrovitch while
special orders have been issued to Sc
cure all members of the executive COM
mittee of the social revolutionary
party"
The Czech Slovak forces which re-
Gently overthrow the bolshevik gov
patch from Tokyo under date of July
to the Exchange Telegraph company,
have made prisoner the bOlshevik COM
mander and his staff. Everything is
now quiet at the Russian Pacific port,
the dispatch adds.
H@;oon Mo-. ca;~a D,er;@
London, July 9.-The assassination
Of Count Won Mirbach, the German
ambassador to Russia, promises to
affairs in Russia-perhaps in the
mark an important turning point in
world war;
While news concerning the murder
of the German czar'' in Moscow and
the formidable and bloody counter
revolution which accompanied the as
sassination, is only ragmentary, there
is evidence that Germany is attempt
ing to the utmost to make capital out
of the Won Mirbach affair.
Blame Agents of Allies.
A German official account of the as
sassination concludes:
'"The result of preliminary inquiry
permits the assumption that agents in
the service of the entente are impli-
Gated in the affair.""
AS further indication that the kaiser
is determined to exact heavy toll from
Russia as revenge, perhaps sending a
big army to occupy Moscow, Petro-
grad and other cities, all the German
newspapers declare the murder Of
Count Won Mirbach must inevitably
have great influence on Russo-Ger.
man relations. German forces now
300 miles west of Moscow are being
heavily REINFORCED.
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