RUSSIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 15 February 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ALLIES IN CONFLICT, WITH

BOLSHEVIKS

BUTCHERY OF THE ROMANOFFS.

SOME FURTHER DETAILS

BOLSHEVIK INVASION OF

UKRAINE

8C CABLE—PBE3S ASSOC!IATIO^^—COPYBIGHT; LONDON, Feb. 13. • A British North Russia communique states that the Allies .successfully coun-ter-attacked 800 Bolsheviks at Shredmacheyga, 100 mdles south-south-east of Archangel, driving the enemy back six miles southward. "*

The Allies gallantly repulsed a atrong attack against Kadish." The situation is more satisfactory.—Aus.N.Z. Cable A&sn. and Reuter.

OMSK, Feb. 13. Confirmatory particulars show" that -±he royal executions were carried out i in the way of wholesale butchery. The Czar, the Czarita, the Czarevitch, and the four princesses, their doctor and servant, were tried in a small cellar beneath their Ekaterinburg residence. As soon as sentence was pronounced members of the revolutionary tribunal produced their revolvers and ruthlessly slew the royalties, who were kneeling and praying. The bodies were carted' off in a motor lorry and buried in an unknown spot. Princess Anastasia was not killed outright. She was battered to death with clubs.

Th« next day the tribunal took the| Grand Duchess Serge and the Princes John and Sgor and other relative© of the royalties and threw them into the shaft of a disused mine. Bombs were kurled after them. Some were drowned* and some killed. Prince Sgor's body was subsequently found, hfe wounds being bound up by a piece of his shirt, indicating that he survived in the water for some time.—Times.

London; Feb. 13. A Russian wireless message states that the bourgeoisie at K'ieff are fleeing to Constantinople. The Peasants' Congress is making a free contribution of bread for Moscow and Petrograd. All the north and north-east of Ukraine is now in Bolshevik hands. The object of the invasion is to secure the great provision stores.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.