TROUBLED RUSSIA
BOLSHEVIK HORROR REPORTDD MURDER OF ENTIRE ROYAL FAMILY <AUS. AND N.«. CABtK MS*'. AND MCTEIO (Received December 6, 12.45 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, sth December.' Kief newspapers publish a story, given them by a valet of the former Env press of Russia, of the murder of the entire Romanoff family by the Bolsheviks. The story states that the family lived in a. single room in a -convent at Ekaterinburg for Veeks before their murder under a guard of Bolsheviks. On 17th July the family was talcea to the cellar of the convent and 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 t-hu valet the Grand Duchess Tatiana was only wounded by the shots, and was killed by blows from rifle butts. All the bodies were buried.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 137, 6 December 1918, Page 8
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