THE ROMANOFFS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 114, 11 February 1928, Page 9

THE ROMANOFFS

4 GIRL CLAIMING TO BE ANASTASIA DECLARED AN IMPOSTOR INFORMATION OBTAINED BY WAR CORRESPONDENT(Rec. February 10, 8.20 p.m.) London, February 10. The war correspondent Mr. F. A. Mackenzie, .’ll an article in the “Daily News, declares that the peasant girl claiming to be Anastasia is an impostor. Her claims were originally advanced in 1923, when they were rejected by the leading Romanoff survivors. Mr. Mackenzie twice visited Ekaterinburg and saw the scene of the Tsarist murders. He examined Communist records, which stated that Anastasia feigned death, but the soldiers accompanying the murderers smashed her head in with their rifle butts. THE TSAR’S FORTUNE. The “Daily Mail,” ,in view of the possibility of Anastasia’s claim to the Tsar’s fortune, points out that besides the considerable amount the Bolsliet ms confiscated, several millions are lying in foreign banks, including English and American. The Tsar’s income from all sources in 1913 was estimated at six millions sterling. His private fortune inherited from his father was increased by judicious investments. A LIBEL ACTION. The “Daily Mail’s” Berlin correspondent savs supporters and opponents of Anastasia will meet face to face next week at the hearing of a libel action bv the editor of the extreme Nationalist paper the “Nachtausgabe” against the editor of the “Tagliche Rundschau Dr. Streseniann’s organ. The •Nachtausgabe ” in a series of articles, favoured Anastasia, but suddenly recanted, declaring that she was merely a Mecklenburg farm mrl. The “Tagliche Rundschau, which'has consistently championed Anastasia, immediately declared that the “Nachtausgabe’s” volte face was due to a handsome payment to a member of the staff bv the Grand Duke of Hesse the late Tsar’s brother. The “Tagliche s editor announces that he will bring evidence proving that the Grand Duke of Hesse actually made a payment.—Sydney "Sun” Cable. STORY RIDICULED BY SOVIET AUTHORITIES (Rec. February 10, 7.15 p.m.) Moscow, February 9. The Soviet authorities ridicule the storv persistently circulated that the Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the late Tsar, is still alive. Thev state that the whole of the Russian Roval family is extinct. The offirial list” of those executed at Ekaterinburg in 1918 includes Anastasia.