The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-07-04
Statement Lenine and Trotzky
Have Fled Following Fall of
Moscow to KorniIoff and
KaIedineS Doubted.
GRAND DUKE ON THRONE?
Purported Facts Concerning
Developments In Russia at
Variance and Inspire
Little Confidence.

Stockholm. June 2s.--The Petrograd
Te~legramblad publishes a report that
the bolshevists have been overthrown,
that Moscow has been occupied by
Generals kaledine and Korniloff and
the Germans; and that Premier Lenine
and War Minister Trotsky have fed
to Thurman, and that Nikolai Nikolaie-
witch has been made emperor.
German military authorities in Fin
iand nave no confirmation. These ru-
mors are being received here with the
greatest reserve.
The Copenhagen newspapers give
prominence to a Berlin dispatch quot
ing the Tages Zeitung Of that city as
follows:
ut is believed here that the boshev-
list government will soon be overthrow,
and that Kerensky is the man of the
future in Russia"
Credit to Czecho- Slovako.
The advices declare that the sup
porters OF Grand Duke Nicholas have
overthrown the soviets throughout
the Siberian provinces Of Irkutsk,
BlagoVistchensk and Khabarovsk.
n defeat of the bolshevists is said
to nave been made possible by the VIC
tory of theCZecho-S lovak forces and
the treachery Of the red guard. Sever
al detaehments of the red guard are
declared to have murdered their Of
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n Exchange Telegraph COMPANY
publishes its message containing the.
reports OF the bolshevist overthrow
and the accompanying details with
reserve and point out tina the in
formation mainly from Ger
man sources and therefore should be-
a lack OF conference is noted IN tbesa
reports through their inclusion of q quo
vrbioh t snHa Inc Inc Berlin Tages Zeitung.
OF the future In Russia" this hardly
ang nTein With the statement that Grand
by the c1Gn1tas ra mas been made emperor
Generals Korniloff and Kaiedines are
sa,o TO have been assisted by German
COW and this adds another note OF con-
fusion 70 the account as no German.
tp r ave been reported near enough
even II Germany were inclined TO array
herself indefinitely against the bolshevist
ddH1norisies, which She has seemed un-
tn two generals, it may be noted, have
both previously been reported to have
peen Killed In battle or assassinated.
Grand Duke Nikolai, or Nicholas, il
an uncle or the former car and at the
start OF the war was commander in
chief OF the Russian armies. After VIM
ming several brilliant victories he was.
lIiu ippOlilleu NlCcTOy OIL In0-
Caucasus September s, 1915. This is
reported to have been a result OF the
former cars jealousy.
On June 2, 1917, Nicholas Is reported
to have been arrested, following royal
list riots in Tifiis, and tried by the revo-
~lutionists for high treason Apparently
nothing resulted from the trial.
General Korniloff was former COM
mander In chief Of the Russian armies,
succeeding General Brusiloff on August
.. 1917.
General Kaledine was "hetman" of
The Don Cossacks.
PRISONERS AID BOLSHEviSTS.
London, June 29.-That the bolshev-
lists in Siberia are weak and could be-
overthrown easily, but for the support
of armed prisoners released by them,
Is the contention of the Hardin cor
respondent of the Daily Mail. In a dis
patch dated June % he a y that Of
10000 prisoners fighting on the side
Of the bolshevists in Trans Baikalia
5000 are Magyars, who are the chief
source Of bolshevist strength. Two or
three allied division, the correspondent
says, could put down all opposition in
Siberia. He adds:
The weakness Of the boishevists
may be imagined from the fact that q
few scattered Czecho- Slovek forces are
able to hold the Siberian railway from
1CllClid plISh W MY OulilSh, u ulSIdHCo
OF 1900 miles, n keep in touch with
tho counter revolutionary movement
II southeastern Russian led by Gen. AL
eXieff. Bolshevism is a living corpse.
Allied Intervention is vital not only to
save the Russians from the Germans,
but to save the Russians from them
selves"
The correspondent then gives infor-
nation concerning conditions in lead
ing Siberian towns. He said there are
100000 unarmed Austrian prisoners at
Omsk, where q German consul has
just arrived. The consul has received
ESQ, 600 rubles from the local bolshevist
government as an indemnity for the
liquidation of German business while
representatives of British and Ameri-
can firms are being mulcted heavily
under threat Of Imprisonment.
CAPITAL is SKEPTiCAL.
Washington. d. c.. June 29.A.l re-
ports of sensational Developments In
Russia are treated. by Officials here
with the utmost reserve and with a
disposition to believe nothing until the
information comes through direct and
official channels.
The state department has heard
through neutral countries of the ru-
mored assassination of the former
car. the ~proclaiming of Grand Duke
ichol as emperor, the overthrow Of
the bolshevist government at Moscow
and the flight of Lenine and Trotzly,
the proclamation Of a separate govern
ment in Siberia unde Grand Duke
Michael n Of Berlin reports that Ker-
ensky is regarded as the man of the
hour by P~etrograd. In regard to any
thing that ONE out of Berlin or from
any German source, state department
officials are frankly skeptical. They
recall many stories set afloat by the
Germans with the hope OF trapping
the United States and tho allies into.
compromising their position by q stand
for or against one Of the Russian fac
lions.