ASHES OF THE CZAR
BROUGHT TO FRANCE IN 1920. RUSSIAN GENERAL’S DISCLOSURE. P»eaa Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. ivONDON, June 17. (Received June i?, at 8.5 p.m.) The. Daily Express’s Paris correspondent says that General, ' Janin, who was formerly with General Koltchak’s army, reveals in The Matin that the ashes of the Czar and Czarina and family are in France. After the butchery the bodies were burnt in a wood nearby, and the relics collected and entrusted eventually to General Janin, who brought them in a valise to the Grand-Duke Nicholas in 1920.—A, and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19201, 18 June 1924, Page 5
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