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Show GRAND DUKE SHOT DY A GENERAL! Berlin Reports Serious! Wounding of Russian Commander-in-chief by Late . Baron Sievers. ENDS COLLOQUY Tenth Army Officer Commits, Suicide After Putting Bullet Bul-let Through His Superior. Berlin pnl IT, by wireless to Sa ville, N Y -The General Anzeiger of Duisburg, Rbcnish Prussia, says it learns "from an absolutely unlm-, peachable source" that the reported I sickness of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholalevttch, commander in rhiem j of the Russian forces. w:. due to a shot in the abdomen fired by the late General Baron Sievers of the defeated defeat-ed Russian Tenth army The General Anzeiger says General Sievers was summoned by the grand duke to explain the defeat of the Russian Rus-sian Tenth army A heated colloquy took place, the newspapers say. and the duke gave Baron Sievers a box on the ear The latter then drew a, revolver and wounded the grand duke.l subsequently turning the -weapon upon himself. The fact that General Sievers had committed suicide, the General An- zelger says, was learned at the time I of his funeral, but the news that ' Grand Duke Nicholas had been wounded has only just become known General Sievers was the commander of the Russian Tenth army which. In ' the middle of February, met with a severe defeat at the hands of the j Germans in the Mazurian lakes re-I re-I gion of East Prussia The report that the general had committed suicide sui-cide appeared in the Frankfurter Zei tung on March 12. The newspaper said it had received a dispatch from Petrograd Intimating that the Russian ! officer ended his ow n life. The auth j orlty for this inference. however seemed to rest on the fact that reports re-ports had been in circulation concerning con-cerning a mourning service which was held for the general in a Luthi an church and the report was not confirmed con-firmed from any other source It has been reported that tlrnn'l Duke Nicholas was ill and a surgical operation had i d decided upon to learn what was the trouble A well-known well-known German-Russian surgeon Dr Bergmann. nephew of the late Prof Rerjjmann of Berlin declined to oper ate. whereupon the invitation was ac- epted by a professor of Riga rt |