PRINCESS OLGA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18566, 23 August 1922, Page 2

PRINCESS OLGA.

SAID TO BE STILL ALIVE.

AN INTERESTING STORY’

ADELAIDE, Aug. 22

Mrs Mclntyre, formerly Madame Kossovskaiea, who arrived by the 'steamer"Ballarat, states that Princess Olga, the eldest daughter of the Czar of Russia, is not dead as supposed, but was recently in Sydney. When the rest, of the Royal Family were murdered a secret society of which Kossovskaiea was a member kept track of the princess. She was first sheitered with an uncle in England and later journeyed to Australia, where her musical talents secured her a position in the Conservatorium. While there she married a man named Bennett, and returned to London. In support, of this story it is stated that some time ago the passenger list of an incoming steamer bore the name “Miss Romanoff." Subsequently the same name appeared iu the passenger list of an outgoing steamer. Kossovskaiea herself had an adventurous career. At the age of fifteen she married the famous musician, aud herself became a prima donna aud joined the Secret Society plotting against the Czar. She joined General Korniloff’s White Army opposing the Bolsheviks round the Black Sea, and participated in a number of engagements. She received severe bullet wounds and was sent to Salonika for treatment, where she met and married an English soldier named Mclntyre.