RECOVERY OF LETTERS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 80, 30 June 1928, Page 5

RECOVERY OF LETTERS

R'P'Val correspondencjel in RUSSIA. FORWARDED TO KING. " ,:i ! l - -LONDON, June 26. The “Daily Express” has recovered "from’ Bblsheyik hands hundreds of '• intimate ; letters written from I&70 to ! 1915 by King George, Queen Mary, •and! other .’Crowned heads of Europe to the, Empress Marie, the mother of ; the murdered Czar Nicolas 11. The ).etter s , were smuggled out of Russia , ,yvith great, difficulty. . The “Daily Express” has handed them to King George; who will distribute them to the writers, where passible.' The letters include several from'the ■King to “Darling Aunt Minny,”. and are signed in an vneeritaia..boyish hand, “Georgie.”