PLEA FOR THE LATE TSAR

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 47, 20 November 1918, Page 2

PLEA FOR THE LATE TSAR

BY EX-BRITISH AMBASSADOR AT PETROGRAD.. Sir George Buchanan, late British Ambassador'at I'etrogratl, speaking at a dinner of the British Ritssja Club in London, said he was confident that in the no distant future Russia would arise reborn front the ashes of hor former self and take her rightful place among the free nations of the \nrld. '

Regretting the callousness with which the news of the murder of the Tsar had been received in some parts of this country. Sir George said his sufferings- in captivity and his tragic death will meet with more pily and sympathy at the bar of history than they have evoked hitherto • "He was not a blood-sucking tyrant such as the Bolsheviks have roproscnte! him, nor wos he guilty of crimes such as they have committed in tho name of liberty.- He never contemplated a. separate peace with Germany, and up to the day of his abdication ho was as determined to stand by his Allies os when, in the autumn of 19H, be made that diversion in East Prussia which relieved the German pressure on Paris at the cost of 200,000 of his best Inops. He was always the true friend and loyal ally of his country, and I know as a foci; that, when in the, summer of lillfi an attempt was inado by the. German Emperor to seduce him by argument.-, based on mutual dynastic interests, lie categorically refused. The news which has reached us of Iho attack on our Kmbnssy, of the murder of that most galiynt of sailors, Captain Cromie, aptly illustrates the reign of terror . which exists (here now." Tho Bolsheviki felt their end nppronrhir-g and were playing their lost: cards nnd indulging in an orgy of massacre and spoliation.