RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 December 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FATE OF THE ROMANOFFS. AMSTERDAM, Dec 5. Kieff newspapers publish a story, given by the valet of the former Empress of Russia, of the murder of the entire Romanoff family by the Bolsheviks. He stated that the family lived in a single room of a convent in Ekaterinburg for weeks before the murder under the guard of the Bolsheviks. Od . July 17 the family was taken into the cellar of the convent, placed against the wall and shot.. The murderers granted the request of the Emperor that his wife, who was ill, should die in his arms. According to the valet, the Grand Duchess Tatiana was only wounded by shots, and was killed by blows from rifle butts. All the bodies were buried. . ;,

GENERAL DEMOBILISATION OF BOLSHEVIK ARMY.

PETROGRAD, Dec 5. The Bolsheviks have ordered general mobilisation for military training, ft is estimated that next summer they will have an army of three to four millions. REVOLUTION IN UKRAINE COPENHAGEN, December 5. A Constantinople message dated Novemeber 26th. states: A revolution has broken out in Ukraine. The Uk- ' rainians here are urging the Allies to occupy the Russian Black Sea ports. PARIS, December 5. A Russian wireless states: Allied troops crossed the Bessarabian frontier and entered Ukraine.