CZAR AND FAMILY

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1930, Page 3

CZAR AND FAMILY

SECRET OF BURIAL

United Presa Association.—Fy K)«ctnc telegraph.— CupyrigbC i LONDON,. December 2i). .

I lie ten years’ mystery regarding tiie burial place of Czar Nicholas aiid Lis family lias been solved. They lie in tlie family vault of General .Maurice Janin, who represented the allied armies with Koltchak’s forces in Siberia.

After the .shooting and burning on July, 1918, the remains of cbe Czar and family were smuggled to-tlie Manchurian frontier and were handed to General Dieferich, who. was Koltchak’s chief of Staff, but Soviet agents were hot on his heels so the remains were handed over to General Janin, who took then to Paris, via China. As the Grand Duke Nicholas considered that a public burial would embasses him, General Janin buried them secretly in a vault in Dam-phi ne in the south west of France.

Tlie remains numbered 811 objects, which included thirty charred hones, tlie burnt fragrants of shoe buckles, jewellery, corset steels, bloodstained clothing, ikons and bullets found in the execution chamber. General Janin adds that the head of the murdered Czar was cut from the body by Russian loyalists, who took jt away.