The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-11
Death of the
Old Ruler
By FRANK J. TAYLOR

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ecution of the Gar and members O.
the royal family Of the Cars fam
lily the bolsheviks claim they do no
know anything.
No effort is made to conceal the de
tails of the Cars death. The United
Press correspondent asked one of tn,
men high in the bolshevik foreign
office for the truth about the Gar
His story was neither long nor com
plicated.
"The Gar was made prisoner by
the bolsheviks at the overthrow Of
Kerensky and was taken to small
town in northwestern Siberia" sale
the bolshevik official. "He was KEPT
there for some time, until an uprising
occurred in the vicinity. His captors
feared the reactionaries would take
the Gar and declare him ruler again
So he was moved southwark to q
small hamlet in the Ural mountains
There he was kept until the Czecho-
Slovaks under Kolchak reached the
proximity, and there was again dan
ger Of Nicholas being recaptured and
declared Car. The bolsheviks guard
ing him realized this danger.
$50 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 Or
ders for execution, and asked US. to
approve them. Since the Gear 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 0. K.
of the national soviet congress.
The Moscow bolsheviks claim they
have no information regarding the
fate of the Czarina and the children
of the Gar, 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 a court to try the
Gar before its members declared
themselves for his execution. His
death is justified on the grounds that
he was danger to bolshevism and
would always be an influence to reac-
ton.
Some of the details of the Cars
death came to light when two Rus
slams who were present at the death
scene in the Urals appeared in Berlin
and told part of their stories to men,
bers of the Allied missions there.
These Russians who had escaped
from the bolsheviks had in their pos
session small bits of cloth, which they
claimed were remnants from the
clothes of the former Russian royalty.
The soldiers claimed to have seen the
not only of Nicholas, but
of his wife and children. They said
it was cruel and brutal beyond de-
Grand Duke Nicholas is thought by
The bolsheviks to be living in the
Crimea, The bolsheviks regard him
as dangerous personality, and would
like to bring him before soviet tri-
lunal.
Executions and imprisonments in
2oviet Russia have done much to rid
The country of political leaders dan
gerous to the bolshevlKs. The head
jovietists have shown rare diligence
md judgment in seizing the men like
y to be dangerous.
According to the bolsheviks, the ex-
ecutions in Russia have not reached
he figures given out by their enemies.
The bolsheviks testify to the state
nent that not more than five thou
and people have been actually killed
n the entire revolution.
However, most of these were exc
.utions. The bolsheviks claim that
very one executed had trial before
| tribunal. The tribunal consisted of
hree communists. The system Of
rial by tribunal is still in practice.
Most of the executions were dur
ng the Red Terror, according to the
doscow leaders. They justify the
led Terror, on the grounds that it
7as the only means of bringing peace