Foreign News: Kolchak's End

In a book of memoirs published in Russia by Sergius Tschoudnovsky was described the last moments of Admiral Kolchak and his able comrade, General Pepeliayev, the two leaders of the Siberian White Army that tried to smash the might of Bolshevism. Tschoudnovsky, as Chairman of the Investigation Committee, was commissioned, in 1920, their executioner.

It was on the night of Feb. 7 that Tschoudnovsky, accompanied by Red soldiers, went to the prison to inform the captives of their immediate execution. Admiral Kolchak was in his cell, fully dressed under a fur coat, and...

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