SENSATIONAL STORY
LAST DAYS OF THE ROMANOFFS. (Received July 18, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, July 16. The "Matin" publishes extracts from a book giving a story of the death of the Czarina, the Czarevitch, and the Princesses of the Czar's family. It states thatttho party were taken to a spot near Ekaterinburg, where a large bonfire was lighted. Soldiers and tho dregs of the populace ' forced tho victims into the fire and bayonetted them as they tried to draw back. Princess Tatiuna three tirnos endeavoured to escape, and was bayonetted repeatedly. The Czarina, holding the Czarevitch's hand, threw herself, with .him, into the flames.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10645, 19 July 1920, Page 6
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