THE EX-ROYAL FAMILY.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1918, Page 5

THE EX-ROYAL FAMILY.

• CONFIRMATION OF MURDERS. Received July 8, 11.10 p.m. Copenhagen, July 8. The latest Russian newspapers and special information received by the newspaper Politiken confirm the murders of the Czar, Czarina, and "Princess Tatiana. The Bolsheviks continue to deny the murders,—Press Assoc. AMERICAN ECONOMIC MISSION. New York, July 8. It i 9 authoritatively stated that the United States will send to Russia an economic mission, supported by a police force of inter-Allied troops to establish order.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BOLSHEVIKS' WANTON SAVAGERY. Peking, July 8. Russian consuls in Chinese Turkestan describe the want an savagery and ruthless greed of the armed Bolsheviks who are overrunning Central Asia. They sent an expedition to Bokhara, ostensibly to enforce reforms, seized four millions sterling from the State Bank, looted and destroyed the town, shot peasants working in the fields, violated women, and later invaded Somirechia, where it is reported they murdered a thousand Chinese. Some Cossacks assembled in northern Somirechia are resisting and appealing to the Allies for assistance Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE MOSCOW REVOLUTION SUPPRESSED. Received July 0, 2.20 p.m. Moscow, July S. The counter-revolution has been suppressed. Hundreds were arrested. THE VLADIVOSTOCK LANDING. Received July 9, 2.20 p.m. Vladivostock, July S. The Anglo-Japanese-American landing parties enforced neutrality in the neighborhood of the consulates. MURMANS JOIN ENTENTE. Copenhagen. July S. The Tidens Tegon states that the whole Mnrman population has broken off from Russia and joined the Entente. Provisions have arrived at Mnrman from America.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.