Poole to Lansing on assasination of Count Mirbach File No. 701.6261/11 [Telegram] Moscow, July 6, 1918, 7 p.m. Received July 9, 4:10 p.m. 702.     Urgent for Secretary's attention. Smith of the Associated Press has just learned from an authoritative source that the German Ambassador, Count Mirbach, was assassinated between 2 and 3 this afternoon at his Embassy. Two person arriving in machine [automobile] threw bomb through window. Ambassador and Captain Konig wounded. Ambassador died in few minutes. Two arrests so far. Smith asks that Associated Press be informed. Poole Documents on US Foreign Policy in Russia [Subject] [Author] [Date]