21 FEBRUARY 1920, Page 2

Admiral Koltchak and his Premier, M. Pepelaieff, were shot at

Irkutsk on February 7th by order of the Bolsheviks. The Gecho-Sha ak forces surrendered the Admiral to the Social Revolutionaries in January, making the pitiful excuse that they could not defend him, and the Social Revolutionaries gave him up to the Bolsheviks. Admiral Koltchak was evidently not a great commander or a far-seeing statesman, but one cannot contemplate unmoved this tragic ending to his patriotic resistance.