THE RUSSIAN PRINCESS.
CLAIM DISPUTED. STORY RIDICULED IN MOSCOW. ROYAL FAMILY EXTINCT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, February 10. The former war correspondent, Mr Frederick A. Mackenzie, who lived in Russia from 1921 lo 1926, in an article published in the Daily News, declares that tiic peasant girl who is claiming to lie the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of the Jate Tsar, is an imposter. The writer says the girl’s claims were originally advanced in 1923 when they were rejected by the leading survivors of the Romanoff family. Mr Mackenzie says he twice visited Ekaterinburg, where, he saw the scene of the Tsarist murders. lie also examined Communist records, which stated that Anastasia feign#l death, hut the soldiers accompanying the murderers smashed her head with the butts of their rifles.
The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail says the supporters and the opponents of Anastasia will be brought face to face next week at the hearing of a libel action by the editor of the extreme Nationalist paper Nachtausgabe against the editor of the Tagliche Rundschau, Herr Stresemann’s organ. The Nachtausgabe published a series of articles in which it favoured Anastasia’s claims, but suddenly it recanted, declaring that she was merely a Mechlenburg farm girl. The Tagliche Rundschau, which has consistently championed Anastasia, immediately stated that the other paper’s volte face was due to the receipt of a handsome payment to a member of its staff, by the Grand Duke Hesse, the late Tsar’s brother. The editor of the Tagliche Rundschau announces that he will bring forward evidence to prove that tile Grand Duke Hesse actually made a payment.
A message from Moscow says members of tiic Soviet ridicule the story that the youngest daughter of the Tsar is slid alive. They state that all the members of the Russian Royal Family are extinct. The ollioial list of those executed at Ekaterinburg in 1918 includes the name of Anastasia.
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17326, 11 February 1928, Page 7
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