WHERE RUSSIA’S LAST CZAR RESTS

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7413, 22 December 1930, Page 7

WHERE RUSSIA’S LAST CZAR RESTS

Remains Buried in France

MYSTERY OF ROYAL CRIME SOLVED AT LAST .United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 20. Tho ten years’ mystery regarding the burial placo of the Czar Nicholas and his family has been solved. They lie in tho family vault of General Maurice Janin, who represented the Allied armies with Koltchak’s forces in Liberia. After the shooting and burning of Ihc 18th July, 1918, tho remains were smuggled to tho Manchurian frontier and handed to general Dieterich, who was Koltchak’s Chief of Staff, but the Soviet agents were hot on his heels so the remains were handed over to Janin who took them to Paris via China. As the Grand Duke Nicholas considered a public burial would embarrass him General Janin buried them secretly in Iris vault at Dauphino in the southwest of France. The remains numbered 311 objects which included 30 charred bones, the burnt -fragments of shoe buckles, jewellery, corset steels, blood-stained clothing, ikons and bullets found in the execution chamber. General Janin declares that tho head of the murdered Czar was cut from the body by Russian loyalists who took it away.