Field-Marshal von Eichhom, the German Military Dictator of the Ukraine,
was assassinated at Kieft on Tuesday. A bomb was thrown at him and his adjutant while they were in the street; both died from their injuries. The assassin is said by the Germans to belong to the Social Revolutionary Party, which is opposed to the Bolsheviks, and which is credited also with the murder of Count Mirbach at Moscow. Political -assassination is a detestable thing, but the Germans by their treachery and cruelty in Russia have brought these troubles on their own heads. They have tried to kill Russia by encouraging disunion and anarchy, and they need not be surprised if Russians in an excess of patriotic frenzy kill the chiefs of the invaders. It is clear that the reaction against the German-Bolshevik tyranny is growing apace. Both in the Ukraine and in Great Russia wholesale arrests betray the uneasiness of the men in power.
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