An official message from Kieff dated June 30th via Berlin [as received in Amsterdam on July 3] says when at two in the afternoon Field Marshal Von Eichhorn and his adjutant Captain Von Vressler were returning from a Casino near Von Eichhorn’s house a man drove closely past them in a car and threw a bomb. Both were very seriously wounded and subsequently died. The assassin and cab driver were arrested. An enquiry has established the fact that the crime originated with Social Revolutionaries in Moscow. The assassination of Von Eichhorn is regarded as another sign of the Russian revolution against the German tyranny. Von Eichhorn was the most ruthless of all the Kaiser’s Generals and treated the Ukrainians from the beginning as slaves whose sole use was to provide food for Germany. He forced the peasants to cultivate land under the severest penalties and fixed a price to enable the Germans to obtain bread cheaper but to the ruin of Ukrainian peasants and landowners. He overthrew the Ukrainian Government, two members of which were arrested and imprisoned. The murderer is a Russian, not a Ukrainian, aged twenty-three. He says he was appointed by the Russian Revolutionary Committee to execute Von Eichhorn.
