A MOSCOW STORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 250, 21 October 1926, Page 7

A MOSCOW STORY.

MAN WHO ARRESTED THE CZAR. MOSCOW, October 14. A Soviet magazine, "The Little Light," reveals the story of the arrest of the Czar by Mstislavsky, a commander of soldiers deputed to the task by Soviet deputies, who had learned in 1917 that the provisional government would allow Nicholas to escape to Czarskoe Seloe, a city south of Petrograd. Mstislavsky. commanding; detachments of infantry and machine gunners, seized the Czarskoe Seloe telegraph station and occupied the railway. He went to the palace alone, where he forced officials to allow him. to meet the Czar. In Ihe presence of a group of officers Nicholas, dressed in a military uniform, faced the visitor with twitchins shoulders and restless hands. He stared and walked away without having said a word. An officer told Mstislavsky that he should have uncovered if he had wished the Czar to speak. "The Romanoffs." said the officer, "will remember this if ever they return to power." When 'ie had arrested the Czar Mstislavskv took pood care that Nicholas and his family were forever removed frcm the possihilitv of reprisals.