A HISTORIC GRIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 10, 13 January 1931, Page 6

A HISTORIC GRIME.

It is reported from Russia that the Soviet authorities are turning the murder of the Czar and his family to good account in the cause of the "social revolution." The house at Ekaterinburg where they were "executed" has been converted into a museum of revolutionary relics, and visitors, brought to the room where this atrocious crime was consummated, "gaze without emotion at the bullet holes in the walls and floor." The English officer who has described this latest development of revolutionary fanaticism speaks of the Bolsheviks as endeavouring to treat the Czar as a remote and detached political figure like our oavii Charles I. But Charles I. at least received a fair and open trial, and the penalty decreed .by the Court was carried into effect with all the formalities of justice. The Czar, his wife and children and their, attendants were shot down at midnight in a dungeon without any legal charge being preferred against them, and without the slightest pretence of regard for law or justice or decency or humanity. That mangled heap of corpses, weltering on the blood-soaked floor, is History's testimony against. Bolshevism, and the facts of this terrible tragedy attested by reliable eyewitnesses, are on record to defeat all the efforts of the Soviet tyrants and their dupes to treat as an "execution" what was in reality an atrocious and cold-blooded murder.