South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-09
BOLSHEVIKI CD
BACK ON STORY
OF CAR 5 FATE
Say Act Was Committed
Without the Authority
of Leaders.
by FRANK }. TAYLOR.

cuuon Of the car and members OF
the royal family. OF the cars fam
ily the bolseviks claim they do not
know. anything
No effort Is made TO conceal the
details OF tn cars death. The
United Press correspondent asked
one Of the men high in the bOlshe-
vIk foreign office for the truth about
tho car. His story was neither long
nor complicated
THE car was made prisoner by
the bolsheviks at the overthrow Of
Kcrensky and was taken TO a small
tovr I'm northwestern Siberia" said
thc bolshevik official He was kept
there for some time. until an upris
ing occurred in the vicinity. His
captors feared the reactionaries
would take the car and declare him
ruler again. So ne was moved south
ward 70 a small hamlet in the Ural
mountains. There he was kept un-
I'll the Czecho-Slovaks under Kolt-
cnak reached the proximity. and
there was again danger Of Nicholas
bong recaptured and declared car.
The bolsheviks guarding him real
izcd this danger.
Soviet Guards Consent
so one night they executed him.
They did IL entirely without our
knowledge and against our orders.
The only authority they had was
t1at Of the local soviet We learned
of the execution some days after it
was done.
THE local soviet sent in the or
derc for execution. and asked US 20
approve them Since the car was
already executed. we decided that
" might as well approve OF the To-
Ccl soviet's action. so we did. and
the cars execution was given the
O. K OF the national soviet con-
gross"
The Moscow bolsheviks claim they
have no information regarding the
fate Of the czarina and the children
of the car. all OF whom were taken
prisoners with Nicholas They
probably were kept with him. and
were executed at the same time, ad-
nit the bolsheviks.
Justify Death.
The bolsheviSs claim that the To-
cal soviet acted as a court 10 try the
car before its members declared
themselves for his execution. His
death is justified on the grounds
that he was a danger 70 bolshevism
and would always be an influence to
reaction.
Some OF the details Of the cars
Ge.th came TO light when two Rus
slams who were present at the death
scene i'm the Trails appeared in Ber-
lin and told part OF their stories to
members OF the allied missions
there
These Russians who had escaped
from the bolsheviks. had in their
possession small bits Of cloth which
they claimed were remnants from
the clothes OF the former Russian
ROYALTY. The soldiers claimed to
have seen the execution. not only
Of Nicholas. but OF his wife and
children. They said it was cruel and
brutal beyond description.
Defy Grand Duke
Grand Duke Nicholas is thought
by the bolsheviks TO be living in the
Crlmea The bolsheviks regard him
as dangerous personality. and
would like TO bring him before a
soviet tribunal
Executions and .mprisonments in
soviet Russia have done much 20 rid
the country Of political leaders dan
gerous 10 the bolsheviks The head
sovetists have shown rare diligence
aut Judgment inseizing the men
likely - be dangerous.
According TO the bolsheviks, the
executions in Russia have not
reached the figures given out by
their enemies. The bolsheviks tes-
tify TO the statement that not more
than 1000 people have been actual
~ killed in the entire revolution.
Say They Gave Trial.
However. most OF these were exc
c-itions The bolsF ev ks claim thai
every one executed .Iad a trial be
fore a tribunal The tribunal con
sisted Of three communists. Th'
system OF trial by tribunal is still
~. practice
Most OF the executions were dur
Ing the ted terror. according 10 tn
Moscow leaders They justify tn,
red terror. on the GROUNDS ludt i
WIS tho only mean of bringing peace
in the land. when counter plots wer,
threatening Lenine and other Dol
sEtvik leaders
The red terror put the fear OF dis
de- n the hearts Of the RuSsiaI
reopIe II was the means by which
the bolsheviks seized a strange hOl
or tho country IL also enable
them TO either jaH or execute ever
political opponent Of any import
ance inside Russia.
only recently have any OF thes
political refugees been allowed on
Of prison In Petrograd visito
lad dinner one evening with a baro
who had just been released. n
was ravenously hungry and almos
out OF his mind. His spirit was vii
anC ne looked for death any mo
ment. and welcomed IL as a relic
from the terror under which h
lived
Though trials by tribunal ar
common and are going on daily. m