The ex-Tsar, Nicholas Romanoff, was shot on July 16th by
order of a body calling itself the Ural Regional Council, which has an- nounced ominously that "the wife and son of Remand( have been sent to a place of security." The Russian Central Executive Committee have "accepted the decision" of the Ural Regional Council "as being regular " ; and apparently an attempt will be made to justify this murder, by cut-throat Revolutionaries, from the ex-Tsar's diaries and correspondence with Rasputin and others. It is explained that "later occurrences" prevented the trial of the ex-Tsar by a tribunal : so the Tsar of All the Russias, the Little Father of his People, was slain like a deserter or a spy, without even the brief formality of a Court-MartiaL It is a miserable end to a tragic career. Nicholas IL set out to be an autocrat without the necessary strength of will and purpose, being by turns reactionary and progressive. He was readily deluded by the Kaiser up to the very moment of war. None the less one pities him for the manner of his end, after so many weary months of Imprisonment and torture of mind.
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