Show 1 8 DOM HU H r LEADED I IRAI UKRAINE RAI F. F Field Marshal Eichhorn Assassinated by Social Revolutionaries Aide Has Also Been Slain I By Associated Press A l I July 31 31 t A V Field Marshal von Eichhorn Eichhorn Eichhorn Eich Eich- horn the German commander in inthe inthe inthe the Ukraine Ukraine ine and his adjutant tant Captain von Dressler Dressier were killed by a bomb bomb In Kiev Tuesday says an Official announcement received here from the Ukrainian capital v The bomb was thrown at the men while they were driving to their headquarters head head- I quarters from the casino The bomb was thrown from a cab which drove close to their carriage as they were approaching the field marhal's mar- mar hals hal's residence The assassin and the cab driver have been arrested It has been has been established the telegram declares that the crime originated with the social revolutionists In Moscow BOY OF 23 THREW BOMB The assassin of Field Marshal von Eichhorn was a lad of 23 He declared at the inquiry held after the crime the advises advices state that he came from the province of adjacent to Mos to-Mos Moscow Moscow Mos Mos- cow on orders from a a. communist committee to kill the field marshal He reached Kiev yesterday POLITICAL STOR STORM LOOMS By United Press Pre AMSTERDAM I July 31 Political Political storm clouds are gathering around the Ukrainian government according to a dispatch from Hamburg to the Nieuwe Nieuw Courant today The message said that wholesale arrests had been made made one of those seized being first state secretary Inthe Inthe in inthe the Hetman government A Berlin official dispatch regarding the field marshals marshal's death says that after after after aft aft- er he had received severe wounds on the left side h heart art trouble set In and the means applied to strengthen the heart only gave temporary relief Captain Captain Captain Cap Cap- tain von Dressler Dressier It Is announced died from loss of blood Inquiry shows adds th the message that the assassin calls himself Boris and that he was an agent of the social revolutionists of ot the Leftin Left Leftin Leftin in Moscow He was furnished by the central committee of that faction with witha a bomb a revolver and a supply of money it is declared General Herman von Eichhorn the German military dictator of Ukraine had a brilliant career in the armies of ot the German emp emperor He played an important role in in the development of the German military ry machine SUBJUGATED POLAND When the great war broke out he hew w was s assigned to the Russian front where he took pat part pact in sever several l cam He was in command of the German army which captured the Russian stronghold of f in August August August Au Au- gust 1915 He continued to direct op operations operations operations op- op In southern Poland until Russia's Russia's Russia's Rus Rus- sias sia's collapse In April he was sent to Ukraine to supervise the establishment of a government government government gov gov- for fog the new republic Upon his arrival he placed the whole re republic republic republic re- re public under German GermaI martial law and arrested members of the ministry who he said were conspiring against the central powers The Ukrainian rada demanded his recall but he was retained In Ukraine as virtual dictator He brought about the overthrow of the Ukrainian government In May and suc succeeded In placing In authority General General General Gen Gen- eral who has since been operating under orders from General von Eichhorn CONFISCATED FOOD General von Eichhorn put into ef effect effect effect ef- ef the confiscation of all stores of food held in the Ukraine Ruthless measures were adopted against peasants peasants peas peas- ants who opposed the confiscation In May he sent an urgent appeal to Berlin asking that troops be sent to meet the menace of an insurrection In Ukraine It was later announced that thata a large number of troops were held subject to his call Then General von Eichhorn asked that engineers firemen firemen fire fire- men and laborers be sent to him so I that the railroads could be kept run run- ning General von Eichhorn was as born on February 13 1848 at Breslau He Heen en enI entered entered en- en in I tere the army 1866 V |