FATE OF THE ROMANOFFS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 11 July 1917, Page 7

FATE OF THE ROMANOFFS.

The New York Tribune prints’"the following cable from Petrograd under date of May 26: „ A crowd pressed against the steel barred fence about Tsarkoe-Selo, watching every movement of seven figures in peasant dress who' were doing peasants’ work. They were planting and hoeing potatoes. a man, a woman, four girls and a little boy. They did not, or pretend ed not, to notice the soldiers or civilians who thronged about the great palace enjoying the spectacle. A year ago the little man in peasant’s smock could have wiped the whole irrelevent gathering out by the crooking of one of those fingers that now grasped a spade. A year ago' the fragile little boy was potential ruler over every one of those who came to-day to watch him dig. For it was the onetime lord of the world’s mightiest domain, Nicholas, late Czar and autocrat of all the Russias, who was the humble form directing the planting. The others were those whom free Russia now calls Mrs. Romanoff anff Olga, Tatiana, Marie, Anastasia, and Alexis Romanoff.