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Title: The story of the Great War; history of the European War from official sources. Complete historical records of events to date ... Edited by Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill (and) Francis Trevelyan Miller
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Reynolds, Francis Joseph, 1867-1937 Churchill, Allen Leon, 1873- Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York P.F. Collier
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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18, the Soviet Government announced that it had delivered aheavy defeat to the Czecho-Slovaks at Bugulma, the enemy fleeingin the direction of Samara. Another dispatch stated that Mura-viev, the commander of a large force of Soviet troops, suddenlydecided to go over to the enemy and march with them on Moscow.When his soldiers refused to obey him, he committed suicide. The commander in chief of the Czecho-Slovak forces in Russiais the Russian General Dieterichs, who was chief of staff underDukhonin, after the fall of Kerensky. In a statement addressedto the American representative of the Finnish Peoples Republic,the Czech Socialist Federation of the United States insisted thatthe Czecho-Slovak movement in Russia was in no way connectedwith counter-revolutionary intrigues tending toward a re-estaB-lishment of the autocracy, or of a constitutional monarchy, thegreat majority of the Czecho-Slovaks being themselves Socialists.Professor Masaryk, representing the movement in Washington,says:
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EXECUTION OF EX-CZAR NICHOLAS 447 Our army is struggling against the external foe. We are theguests of our brothers in Russia and we will not interfere in theirinternal affairs. On July 10, 1918, a new, autonomous Siberian Governmentwas proclaimed, with headquarters at Novonikolaiefsk, on theRiver Ob. The new government, while anti-Bolshevist, isradical in character and is based on universal suffrage and aconstituent assembly representing all classes of the population. On the same date, July 10, 1918, General Horvath, vice pres-ident of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, proclaimed himself mili-tary dictator of another government of Siberia. He establishedhis headquarters at Harbin. CHAPTER LXVII EXECUTION OF EX-CZAR NICHOLA SINCE the latter part of June, 1918, there had been frequentrumors to the effect that ex-Czar Nicholas had been executed.The first of these stated that he had been killed by Red Guardsat Ekaterinburg. This dispatch was denied officially, but wasfollowed by another repo

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