A MYSTERY SOLVED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21215, 22 December 1930, Page 9

A MYSTERY SOLVED

RUSSIAN ROYAL FAMILY. BURIAL PLACE DISCOVERED, IN FRENCH PRIVATE VAULT. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 20. (Received Dec. 21, at 5.5 p.m.) The ten-years mystery regarding the burial place of Czar Nicholas- and his family has been solved. They lie in the family vault of General Maurice Janin, who represented the Allied Armies with Koltchak’s forces in Siberia. After the shooting and burning the remains were smuggled to the Manchurian frontier and handed to General Dieterich, who was Koltchak’s chief of staff, but Soviet agents were hot on their heels, so the remains were handed over to General Janin, who took them to Paris, via China. _As the Grand Duke Nicholas considered that a public burial would embarrass him, General Janin buried them secretly in a vault at Dauphine, in the south-west of France. The remains numbered 311 objects, which included 30 charred bones, burnt fragments of shoe buckles, jewellery, corset steels, bloodstained clothing, ikons, and bullets found in the execution chamber. General Janin adds that the head of the murdered Czar was cut from his body by Russian loyalists, who took it away. , Nicholas 11, the last emperor of Russia, was forced to abdicate in March, of 1917. He was sent to Tsarskol Selo, to Toblolsk, and to Ekaterinburg, where on Koltchak’s advance the local Soviet caused him to be shot along with his wife, son, and four daughters on Julv 16, 1918.