A wireless Russian official telegram states [as received in London, July 20], that the Central Committee have made public the following message from the Ural Region Council concerning the shooting of the ex-Czar: Ekaterinburg was being seriously threatened by the approach of the Czecho-Slovaka and simultaneously a counter-revolutionary conspiracy to wrest the ex-Czar from the Council’s authority was discovered. The Ural Regional Council, therefore, decided to shoot the ex-Czar Nicholas which decision was carried out on 16th July.
