MURDERED GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 16677, 8 March 1918, Page 8

MURDERED GENERAL

DUKHONIN’S TERRIBLE DEATH AT MOB’S HANDS. The Stockholm correspondent of the Paris ‘Matin’ quotes nn eye-witness for the following account o? the murder of General Dukhonin, the late Russian Connnander-in-Chief, at Mobile!!:— The general appeared at the window of his railway carriage. " Throw us your epaulettes!” shrieked the soldiers, “or we'll kill you,’’ and they shouldered their rifles. Krylenko (Lenin’s Commander-in-Chief) begged the general to give way to them, but Dukhonin refused. “ They can go to the deuce,” he cried. “Let them kill mo!” A bullet whizzed by, breaking the window, then a second. General Odiutzeff went up to Dukhonin and gaudy took olf his epaulettes. They were thrown to the mob, and were quickly tom to pieces and trampled under foot. His two orders followed, and for a moment we thought he wan saved. Then a handful of sailors jumped into the carriage. They seized Dukhonin by the shoulders and pushed him to the end of the coach, and then on to the platform. Krylenko ran after them. The general’s appearance caused a greatuproar. “ Kill him right out!” they screamed. “ Kerensky and Komiloff got off. Men like him. muot be killed at once!” As tho mob pushed closer and closer upon the general, Krylenko stormed and shouted, but do one took any notice. With a single blow the general was struck down by a tall sailor from tho rebel cruiser Aurora. Dukhonin got on his feet again at once, his face streaming with blood. He tried to speak, but a dozen bayonets were run through him. Grotesque and horrible scenes followed. I oould no longer look on, and dashed back to the carriage, where 1 found Krylenko sitting in a corner, his face in his hands. When ha lifted Iris head I saw he was as pale as death. “Look at them,” he said, in a whisper. “ There’s no. holding them in now. I and’ all tho rest of us ir. ust come to the same end.”