LATE CZAR'S LAST DAYS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 5 August 1918, Page 5

LATE CZAR'S LAST DAYS.

STOCKHOLM Aug. 3. ( Commissai-y Yakovlev, -who carried i out the Bolshevik orders to remove the > Czar from Tobolsk to Ekaterinburg, describes the incidents of the last journey. He received a vivid impression of the Czar's amazing limitations. Th e Czarina is altogether different. She is cunning and proud, and exerted a strong influence oil her husband. Upon learning the fate of the Czar she said: "I won't go." After prolonged family consiiltatious, the ex-Czar prepared for the journey. Cavalry escorted the carriages, and large patrols guarded every halt until the party entrained at Tumen. The Royalties expected insults, and were much surprised at the correctness of the guards' behaviour. Yakovlev conversed continually with the Czar, who never mentioned politics or the war. His mind was centred on the narrow domain of his family, weather and food. Crowds waiting at Ekaterinburg shouted: "Show us the bloodsucker," and refused, to disperse even on a threat of machine guns. The train was thereupon shunted to a neighboring station. —Aus.-N.Z. C.A.. and Reuter. PARIS. Ait S . 3. Advices from Moscow state that the ex-Czar's burial place is a secret. Ten volumes of his diary, covering from his youth until the last days of his Jsfe, have been discovered and will shortly be publishel.—Times Service. MADRID, Aug. 3. On the initiative of King Alfonso, the Spanish Foreign Minister has approached Russia with a view to the removal of the widow and children of the ex-Czar to Spain.—Reuter.