MURDER OF CZAR

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1930, Page 9

MURDER OF CZAR

BURIAL PLACE REVEALED VAULT IN SOUTH OF FRANCE 10 YEARS’ MYSTERY SOLVED BONES OF ROYAL FAMILY LOYALISTS TAKE THE HEAD By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 20. The -10 years’ mystery . regarding the burial place of the Czar Nicholas of Russia and his family hasi 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 of July 18, 1918, 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. 1 r . :

As the Grand Duke Nicholas considered a public burial would embarrass, him General Janin buried the bodies secretly in the 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, blood-stained clothing, ikons and bullets found in the execution chamber.

-General Janin adds that _the heads of the murdered Czar was cut from the body by Russian loyalists who took, it away.