MYSTERY SOLVED
TSAR’S BURIAL PLACE
REMAINS IN SOUTH WEST OF'FRANCE
HOW SOVIET .WAS CHEATED
(United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, December 20. The ten-year-old mystery regarding the burial place of the Tsar Nicholas and hio 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 on July IS, 1918. The remains were smuggled to the Mau. churian frontier and handed to Genera: Dieterich, who was Koltchak’s Chief of Staff, but Soviet agents were hot on his heels so the remains were handed over to General 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 a vault at Dauphine in the south-west of France.
The remains numbered 311 objects, whicn included 30 charred bones, burnt fragments of shoe buckles, jewellery, corset steels, bloodstained clothing, ikons and bullets found in the execution chamber. Generar Janin adds that the head of the murdered Tsar was cut from the body by Russian loyalists, who took it away.
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Southland Times, Issue 21275, 22 December 1930, Page 5
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191MYSTERY SOLVED Southland Times, Issue 21275, 22 December 1930, Page 5
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