Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-08
KOLA DESERTS
RUSS, JOINS THE
ENTENTE ALLIES
Entire Population of Murman
Coast Rebels; German
Ambassador Killed

Copenhagen, July S.-The entire
population of the Murman Coast Con
the Kola Peninsula bordering the
White Sea and the Arctic) has
broken with Russia and Joined the
Entente, according to a dispatch
from Vardoe, Norway, to the Chris
tiana Tidens Tegn.
A supply of provisions from the
United States has arrived at Muir
mansk, the dispatch adds.
Basel. July 8.-Nikolai Lenine,
Bolsheviki premier, has sent the fol-
lowing message to M. Joffe, Russian
minister at Berlin, regarding the as
sassination of Count Won Mirbach.
the German Ambassador at Moscow:
1.-TWO unknown men entered the
German Embassy at 2 o'clock this
Saturday afternoon, having docu-
cents from special committee.
They threw a bomb in Count Won
Mirbach's office, wounding him so
severely that he died.
Representatives of the govern
ment imme ediately visited the en-
bassy and expressed indignation at
the act. which they considered as a
political maneuver to provoke trou-
BILE. The government is taking every
measure to discover the murderers
and bring them before special
revolutionary tribunal.
Extra measures have been taken
TO protect the German embassy and
citizens. The government requests
you to express to the German gov
ernment the Russian governments s
indignation and convey it's sympathy
to the family of the late count"
Paris. July s. - AS soon as the
news of the assassination of Count
Won Mirbach, German ambassador at
Moscow, came to M. Tchitcherin,
the Russian foreign minister, M.
Tchitcherin and his associate, M.
Karakhan, called at the German en-
bassy and expressed the regret and
Indignation of the government at the
occurrence, says a Berlin dispatch,
forwarded by the Havas correspon-
dent at Basel.
The identity of the assassins has
not been established, nor have they
been arrested, the message states.
1t appears, according to these ad-
vices, that with Count Won Mirbach,
when he was attacked. were Herr
Ritzler, the counsellor of the en-
bassy, and a German officer. Neither
was injured.
Kerensky's Comment
Alexander Kerensky, former pre-
mier of Russia, when informed by
the Associated Press of the assassi-
nation of Count Won Mirbach, Ger
man ambassador at Moscow, dec1ar-
ed that while he could not feel elat-
ed at the death of a human being
he could not help saying lit is q
good thing for Russia"
nj a.
believe the news, asking repeatedly
that the news seemed perfectly re-
liable as it originated in Berlin, he
said:
This may be the beginning OF
the renaissance of Russia"
But now the Germans will sure
ly go to Moscow" he added sadly.
1t was only few days ago that
KerenslSy, in a talk with the cores
pondent, expressed his opinion that
the only reason German troops had
not yet appeared in Moscow was be-
cause Won Mirbach had not required
their presence there.
Was Ruler of Russia
Should circumstances demand the
appearance of German troops" said
the former premier on this occasion,
won Mirbach, the real ruler of Rus
sia, will surely call upon them. His
ability to govern without the help of
German bayonets has alone prevent
ed the appearance of German spiked
helmets in the ancient capital of the
Muscovite Empire"
Washington, July s. Leaders
among the people of the Murman
coast recently appealed to the Amer
lean and Allied consult at Koia for
protection. German troops are re-
ported to the southwark on the rail-
road leading to the Arctic at Kola
and the failure of the Bolsheviki
government to resist the penetration
of the enemy has led the inhabi-
tants to adopt their own measures
of defense.
With American, British and
French naval forces guarding large
store of war supplies at Kola and
along the railroad, the Murman coast
is one of the possible fields for op-
erations by the Allies in the East un-
der the new policy toward Russia
believed to have been approved by
President Wilson at the White House
conference yesterday. Just what
form of activities will follow under
the new program, however, is be-
lieved to rest almost wholly with the
Supreme War Council at Paris and
If anything like a detailed plan OF
action has been worked out by the
council no intimation of it has been
given out.