THE ROMANOFFS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 114, 7 February 1919, Page 5

THE ROMANOFFS

MORE DETAILS OF THEIR DEATH By Teleßranh-PreFß Association-Copyright (Roc. February G, 7.45 p.m.) Paris, February 4. Details of the stoiy of the murder of the ex-Tsar and his family 6tate that the Tsaiwitch was ill and scarcely conscious of what was occurring. Th» lad looked like an imbecile while watching hia mother andi-isters being killed. Altogether sixteen Eomanoffs have been murdered, the last being the Grand Dukes Nicholas and George. The latter waa never connected with politics, and only desired to return to London to see hie wife and daughters.—Aus,-N,Z. Cable Assn. MEMBERS OF ROYAL FAMILY RESCUED A MISERABLE EXISTENCE IN THB CRIMEA.. ... ... Paris, 'February 4-. The ktc Tsar's uncle, the Grand Duke Alexander, has arrived from the Crimea, whore he has been in refuge since the Russian revolution in March, 1917. Hβ lived at a small country house with the 1 Grand Duke Nicholas, the Dowager Empress, Grand Duchess Senia, and her daughters;. All dragged out a miserable existence. Fearing nightly assassination) by the soldiers guarding them they &!■» ways slept in their clothes. The Soviet , fled when' the Gormans occupied the Crimea, in April last. The Allied fleet arrived at the end of November, and , rescued them.. The GTand Duke addeds "France must save Eoissia from the "ty-rants."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.