SENSATIONAL STORY FROM RUSSIA.
CZAR'S EXECUTION A FAKE. HELD BY LENIN FOR DRAMATIC? COUP. (The , ; {Received February 18f%.45 a.in.) ; < ~ - TOKIO, Feb. 16. Trustworthy authorities who have,ar-. rived from Siberia insist that the executions of supposed 1 Royalties: at Ekaterinburg . were really elaborate pieces of stage management. They declared that friendly Bolshevists and Orthodox Russians smuggled the Czar away m the; guise of a merchant. He is now m the Kremlin. The Czarina and family are interned m a monastery at; Sergievsky, sixty Versus, frqm Moscow. 'Bolshevists are spreading a report that Lenin will ultimately transfer his power only to a monarch, recalling the statement published m the Times m August, 1918, m 'which! it was alleged Lenin told the Cossacks and Bolshevists that he would restore the Czar to the throne after the suppression of the bourgeoisie 1 influence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14840, 18 February 1919, Page 5
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