, 1918-07-11
COUNT Won MIRBAcH SHOT BY
UNKNOWN MEN DIES ALMOST
INSTANTLY.
MOVE TO SAVE RUSSIA
v. 8. MARINES LANDED AS AMER
icA JOINS ALLIES TO KEEP
sLAvS FROM HUN.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Paris, July S.-Gen. Count Won Mir
bach, German ambassador to Russia,
has been disseminated in Moscow, ac-
cording to a Berlin report received by
the Havas agency. Two unknown
men asked. 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. -
Observation-Disclosures is to be req
cued from the clutches of the mon
ster of Berlin.
At a conference at the White House
Satu lay, 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.
1t 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
rtnes already have landed at Vladiv-
ostok and Kola.
The Czecho- Slovaks, who broke
away from Austria-Hungary are ex-
pscted to form the nucleus Of the
army to operate in Russia.
From Toxic ome 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 Thurman 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
a 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 a front Of
1000 yards, according to Field Mar
shall Haig's report from British head
quarters in France.
The Italians have succeeded in clear
ing the Austrians tut of a very consid-
cradle part of the terrain the ener,y
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 attack
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 IN
the Amiens front, northeast Of villers-
Bretonneux. 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 hrouph Hame1