TSARIST RUSSIANS

Grey River Argus, 27 July 1925, Page 5

TSARIST RUSSIANS

EXECUTED AT PETROGRAD.

LAST TSARIST PREMIER IN CLUDL’D.

(Received July 25 at 5.5 p.m.) (Reuter.) LONDON, July 24

The "Morning Post’s” Paris correspondent reports that private telegrams announce that the Soviet Government executed in Petrograd on July 2nd Prince Nicholas Galatzin, aged 76, who was the last of the Tsarist Premiers, and also seventeen oth-

All were shot at night, absolutely without trial.

Sixty others were deported to the extreme north of Russia or imprisoned. According to "Le Matin,” of Paris these all were formerly students at the Imperial Lycee Alexander, and al] were living in abject poverty. The Soviet, it says, misrepresented a small relief fund that was raised in Paris in their behalf as being a huge fund for the overthrow of the Soviet regime.