RUSSIAN TREASON PLOT.
THE CZAR AND HIS BROTHER.
A MURDER CONSPIRACY THAT FAILED. The following was cabled from St. Petersburg to the Sydney "Sun" last week:—Details are reported to have leaked put of the recent plot to seize the Czar and to force him to abdicate in favour of his brother, the Grand Duke Michael. It was planned that the men of the Royal yacht Standart were to hold the Emperor prisoner, but this design, it is said, was frustrated because the Czar became suspicious, and in his nervousness fled from the yacht. Admiral Chagin, who was in command of the yacht, and regarding the cause of whose suicide various stories have been told, is said to have ended his life because he had been warned, by telephone that the police were about to search his quarters. It found on which was. impressed a letter that Admiral Chagin had written to the Grand Duke Michael, saying that he could be " counted on to drive straight home when the morning came." The Czar and his brother have not been on speaking terms for the last two years—not, in fact, since the latter tried to elope with one of his mother's maids of honour.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8411, 13 November 1912, Page 7
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202RUSSIAN TREASON PLOT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8411, 13 November 1912, Page 7
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