The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-01
ASSASSINATION 0!
E|CHBORN TOORAW
GERMANS TO EAST
Will Compel Ludendorf
to Give Up Much
Needed Troops.
UNREST IN RUSSIA
Kaiser $ People Enraged.
Ukraine and North
Country Breath
Hatred.
UNREST IN RUSSIA

Amsterdam. July 3f.--The assassi-
nation in Kiey on Tuesday OF Field
Marshal General Hermann Won Eich-
horn, the German dictator in the
Ukraine, Is expected to bring the long
dormant eastern crisis to full flare
and compel LudendorfY TO send s-fong
forces into Russia and the Ukraine
lust as the campaign in the west Is
approaching its climax and every
ounce of man power is needed there.
The kaiser's staff, observers here
agree, can no longer blink The menace
in the cast. Economic exploitation
OF the hunger peace" Is at a stand
still. Russia and the Ukraine are
seetiaing with unrest botn OF deep
hatred OF the Inv ader and OF the hope
that the foreign yoke may yea DC
silaken of.
sserznany's people are enragcd.
Nhen Count Won MEbach was MUIR
dercd at MOSCOW scarcely month
ago and the nlilitarists decided 10
.*spare the rod mot because they
ssssAsesi "a. hutsa hesaases ALI fsrsss were
uccdcd til the Wess}. the people as
sentec readily: the loss of q blue
stockingcd diplomat meant much to
the kaiser, but nothing to them.
But with Eichhorn passes one OF
The great popular heroes this war has
produced. They called him Left
clank Hermann, iii Germany, be-
cause i'm nearly every great battle in
which lie took a leading part he COM
manded the left flank. 1t was he who
executed Hindenburg's grandiose bat-
,l. ~l.,s cha Ia kp~ I'm fhf,
winter OF f9f5-i6. AS leader of Hin
denburg's left he rolled up the Rus
slams and threw them across the East
PrussiaE frontier, enabling the centre
and right to move up and destroy tho
Musoovites.
On the Dunaiec. on the Sjcmen. at
koyno and at wilma this general who.
incidentally. was a grandson of the
great philosopher, Won Scheillng. won
smashing victories. The German peo-
pie cry for vengeance now that this
idol has been killed by the bullet of
23-year-oid agent OF the Russian
social revolutionists. Ills companion
and adtutant. Captain ven Dressler.
was killed by the same assassin who.
together with the man who drove the
murder cab, has been arrested.
1t Is now clear to observers here
that there exists In Russia powerful
socialist revolutionary ring which. be-
Ing unable to rouse Its eompatriots
to open revolt, has sworn death ~
the tyrants'' by Whatever route or
means Is practicable. To them the
end-rhe liberation of Russia-jusst-
fies the means. This ring is like the
BLACK Hand" or Malta. and its mem.
hers and agents are daring and loyal
to the death. Twice they have proven
that no vaunted Prussian bodyguards.
no rule Of blood and iron. and net
the shewdest precautions can proven:
them from getting" their man once
they have spoken his death verdict.
The men who form this liberty ring"
are born rebels. Most OF them are
trained and skilled In plotting through
decades Of secret rebel work during
the Czarist regime. Its actual cxccu-
tors are, as In Cxalist days. young,
fanatic enthusiasts who dare all to
accomplish their mission and. having
accomplished it. care not what hap
pens to them.
Knowing that for the time being
the Ukraine Is the pivot OF German
rule and exploitation in the east. the
socialist rcyolutionists' communist
committee" after having removed the
arrogant Mirbach. set to work at the
heart Of German despotism ut Kicv.
In the face OF this powerful orsani-
atioL, whose membership numbers
thousands In all circles, high and low.
coupled with the steady weakening Of
the Boishcyist power. the Germans,
1t Is believed, will now he compelled
to send back to the east many OF the
divisions which. Withdrawn after
Brcst- Litovsk and Bucharest. gave
them their superiority In the west.