RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FATE OF THE ROMANOFFS. A VALETS STORY OF THE MURDER. WHOLg FAMILY SHOT; Received Dec. 6. j.."i p.m. Dec. Kieff newspapers publisJi a story, given by the valet of the former Empress of 'Russia, of the murder of the entire Romanoff family by the Bolsheviks. He states the family lived in a single room of a convent in Ekaterinburg for weeks before the miirder, under a guard of Bolsheviks. On July 17 tTe family were taken from the cellar of the convent, placed against a wall, and shot. The murderers granted the request of the Emperor that his wife, who was ill, should die in his arras According to the valet, the Grand Duchess Patiana was only wounded, nnfl was afterwards killed l>y blows from rifle butts. All the jbodies were buried. REVOLUTION IN UKRAINE. ALLIED TROOPS CROSS THE FRONTIER. Constantinople, Nov. 20. A message states that revolution has) broken out in Ukraine. The Ukrainians here are urging the Allies to occupy the Russian Black Sea ports. Paris, Dec. 4, , A Russian wireless message states that Allied troops crossed the Bessarabian frontier and entered the Ukraine. —Alls, and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. A BOLSHEVIK ARMY. PREPARING FOR "DER TAG." Petrograd, Dec. 5. The Bolsheviks ordered a general mobilisation for military purposes. It is estimated that next summer tlicy will have ail army of from three to four millions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITISH TROOPS IN THE TYROL

Amsterdam, Dee. 4. British troops have entered the Tyrol. — Aui.-N.Z. Cable Assn.