THE ROMANOFF FAMILY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 62, 7 December 1918, Page 7

THE ROMANOFF FAMILY

STORY OF THEIR MURDER — '■ —- SHOT IN THE CELLAR OF A CONSENT -Amsterdam, December 5. Kief .jiewspapers publish'- a story Biven them by a valet of the former Empress of Russia, of the murder of the entire Romanoff family by the Bolsheviki. The story", states that (ho family lived in a single room in a convent-at Ekaterinburg for'weeks before .their murder under a guard of Bolsheviki.." On July 17 the family was taken to the cellar of the. convent and placed against ,the wall and shot. . , The murderers granted the request, of the Emperor that his wife, who was ill, .should die in his arms. According to Che valet the Grand Duchess Tatiaiia was only wounded by the shots, and was killed .by blows from rifle butts. All the bodies "were' buried.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aisn.rEeuter. \ ■ ' • THE BOLSHEVIK ARMY GENERAL MOBILISATION ORDERED; >''•'•' Petrograd, December 5. The Bolsheviki have ordered a general mobilisation'for. military training, and it .is that next summer .they will have an army of from three to four million.' menAAus-.-N.Z. Cable Assn. :;;:.REVOLUTIOFi UKRAINE ' (Kec'.- December 7, 1.15 a.m.) ~" Constantinople,. November 26, . -K message that a revolution has broken .Out in Ukraine. ' The Ukrainians here ..are' urging the Allies'to occupy. the' Russian Black Sea .Aus.-N.Z,; Cable Assn.-Reuter. '.'.': ALLIED TROOPS ENTER THE ;.;; ~.;. .""Ukraine. .-..,fl?ec. December 7, 1.15 a.m.). Paris, December 4. Russian-wireless, messages state that Allied'troops'have crossed the Bessafabian frontier and entered the Ukraine. —Aus.-N.Z: Cables 'Aesri.-fteuter.