The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-07-09
HOW CAR
MET DEATH
Is RELATED
By Frank j. Taylor

the Car and members of the royal
family. CT the Cars family the boil
sheviks claim they do not know
anything.
No effort is made to conceal the
details OF the Cars death. The
United Press correspondent asked
one of the men high in the bolshe-
vik foreign office for the truth about
the Czar His story was neither long
nor complicated.
THE Gar was made prisoner by
the bolsheviks at the overthrow of
Kerensky and was taken to a small
town in northwestern Siberia" said
the bolshevik official. HE was kept
there for some time, until an uprising
occurred in the vicinity. His cap
tors feared the reactionaries would
take the Czar and declare him ruler
again. So he was moved southward
to a small hamlet in the Ural noun
tains There he was kept until the
Czecho-Slovaks under Koltchak
reached the proximity, and there
was again danger of Nicholas being
recaptured and declared Gar. The
bolsheyiks guarding him realized this
danger.
so one night they executed him.
They did it entirely without our
knowledge and against our orders.
The only authority they had was
that Of the local soviet We learned
of the execution some days after it
was done
The local soviet sent in the
orders for execution, and asked us
to approve them. Since the Czar
was already executed, we decided
that we might as well approve of
the local soviet's action, SO we did,
and the Cars execution was given
the o. K of the national soviet con
gress.
The Moscow bolshevik claim they
have no information regarding the
fate of the Czarine and the children
of the Czar, all of whom were taken
prisoners with Nicholas. They prob
ably were kept with him, and were
executed at the same time, admit the
bolsheviks.
The bolsheviks claim that the local
soviet acted as court to try the
Car before it's members declared
themselves for his execution. His
death is justified on the grounds
that he was a danger to belshevism
and would always be an influence to
reaction.
Some of the details of the Cars
death came to light when two Rus
SLAMS who we're present at the death
scene in the Urals 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 executions, not only
CT Nicholas, but of his wife and
children. They said it was cruel
and brutal beyond description.
Grand Duke Nicholas is thought by
the bolsheviks to be living in the
Crimea. The bolsheviks regard him
as a dangerous personality, and
would like to bring him before a So
Wet tribunal.
Executions and imprisonments in
soviet Russia have done much to rid
the country of political leaders dan
gerous to the belshiviks. The head
soviets have shown rare diligence
and judgment in seizing the men
likely to be dangerous.
According to the boIsheviks, the
executions Ill huoold ndNC uOt
reached the figures given out by
their enemies. The bolsheviks tes-
tify to the statement that not more
than five thousand people have beer
actually killed in their entire revo-
luton
However, most of these were exc
cutiens. The bolsheviks claim that
every one executed had a trial be-
fore a tribunal. The tribunal con
sisted of three communists. The sys-
tenn of trial by tribunal is still in
practice.
Most of the executions were during
the Red Terror, according to the
Moscow leaders. They justify the
Red Terror, on the grounds that il
was the only means of bringing
peace in the land, when counter plots
were threatening Lenine and other
bolshevik leaders.
The Red Terror put the fear OF
disorder in the hearts of the Russian
people. 1t was the means by which