The Washington herald., 1918-06-29
ILondon Wonders If Report
Grand Duke on Throne
Is German Feeler-Ker-
| ensky Reappears to Re
deem His People.
DOUBT MOSCOW FALL

AOuuous yunC 20 uC NussAah
ambassador at Berlin tonight de-
Med all reports that former Gar
Nicholas had been murdered. The
former Emperor is safe in Russia,
the ambassador declared, accord
ing to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Amsterdam. o.
Throughout the day there had
come from Russia, via Berlin,
Copenhagen and othe rpoints, the
sound of rafting skeletons. With
the clarion call for a new battle
tor> freedom tn atKerensly sound
ed on his dramatic temperance
On the worlds political arena, has
mingled overnight the echo OF
fanfares hailing a new autocrat to
the imperial throne of Russia for
which there has been bidding in
frantic rivalry.
Like ghost-shadows of a time
that was believed forever dead,
the names of illustrious princes
and famous generals of Czardom's
regime appeared in these dis
patches, men who have been re-
ported slain so many times since
the March revolution that the
world has come to think them
buried long ago.
As From the Tomb.
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievitch,
.hs ex-Czars uncle; Gen. KoFniloff,
he man who more than any other
Individual brought about Kerensky's :
all; and Gen. Laledines, hetman of
he Cossaeks. all were resurrected
" the days news. The Grand Duke
yas reported to have been pro-
Iaimed Emperor after the cap
ure" of Moscow by the two gen.
rails.
J Lenine and Trotsky are said to
ave fed to the MuTman Coast. and
heir government to have been sup
.lanted by the new imperial regime.
Nicholas Romanof was described
q really dead" So persistent had
cen the last,.efw days reports OF
! = -assassfnation"- by the Red
yards, then by the Czecho-Slavs-
hat advices early today giving a
'ew alleged details were taken as
almost superfiuous confirmation. His
resurrection tonight came, there
,ore. as a distinct surprise. and add
ID to the puzzles offered to po-
itical students by this sudden
warm of reports and rumors re-
sarding the Russian situation.
In Il n German sehemef
Not few of the generally we'll
informed observers here ventured
he suggestion tonight that the
yhole thing was a repetition of the
,ft-played German scheme to dis
ract attention from the Western
ront. with some additional ulterior
1otive, such as. for instance, paw
nE the way toward helping auto
; racy to get back into the Russian
addIe.
One noted student of the iinterna-
loinal situation suggested that the
ierman game was to sound. not
My the worlds, but also Russia's
pinfon, regarding the various pos
s5flities in which Berlin may see a
nance for an eventual mobilization
part of the Russian man power
~ offset the American reserves
Iat. in other words. Ludendorff Is
oking ahead and working for the
me when German numerical su-
7riority on the vital front, in the
est. will be definitely outbalanced.
A shrewd attempt by Wilhelm
rasse. either to discredit Kerensky
the eyes Of the allied world. or
hirt with him by appealing to
Iat greatest Of human weaknesses,
nifty. was seen In some quarters
the obviously inspired assertion
the Deutsche Tages Zeitung that
Serensky Is the man of the future
Russia"
other dispatches bearing traces
the German censors handiwork
sserted that Geramn trops helped
rose Of Korniloff and Kaledino to
-apture" MOSCOW.
Virtually IN all circles here the
hole tumble Of reports regarding
1ssia were treated with the utmost