HOW THE ROMANOFFS DIED.

Shannon News, 5 January 1926, Page 4

HOW THE ROMANOFFS DIED.

MIDNIGHT MASSACRiE IN PRISON BAiSBMBNjT, LONDON, January 2. The Riga correspondent of "The Times" says that the Soviet authorities in. Leningrad have for the first time published the details of the murder of the Imperial family in 1918. Hitherto only the, shooting of the Tsar was officially admitted.. The Soviet accojunt states that during the imprisonment of the Royal family at Ekaterinburg, the place was strictly guarded and the prisoners forbidden to approach the windows lest they might exchange signals with people outside. The Central Government originally intended to hold a public trial, with Trotsky as prosecutor, but on 12th. July decided to shoot immediately without trial. Trusted Communists were instructed to assist the guards with the shooting. ■At midnight the Royal family and four attendants were told to djfess and proceed to the basement, because the White Army intended to bombard the house. Nono suspected treachery. Reaching the basement the commandant read out the Soviet's sentence. All seemed stunned, only the Tsap spoke. He said: "So you are not taking us anywhere." The shooting then commenced, preventing further speech. The bodies were destroyed, next day. A week later the White* Army ; arrived.