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THEFT
SECURITIES WORTH ITS CON
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A che intaining 1600 Chinese Loan Bonds, valued at lifteen thou sand pounds sterling, was stolen from a yan in Avering Da Lopers, in the absenical of the drivečian ni
It is understood that the qum bera of the missing securities have been telegraphed to the banks in London and other centres where
Mark Enter. The stolen Chinese accuritie
END OF ROMANOFFS. his family to this territories of the British Empire" wts, not possible before, the end of the STORY OF THE LAST DAYS.War. As the second-revolution approached, the Provisional Gove Stripped of all details the tragic crnment decided that it would not story told by Bykoff in his book he safe for the Romanoffs to te based on hitherto unpublished main so hear Petrograd On official Russian documents is as Agust 14, the Tear, his family,
OPENS A PERSONA
and his rethue-85 persons in all follows:
were transferred to Tobolsk in Early in 1917 the frenace of re- Siberia. Here they lived in cam- volution convinced the rulers of phrative freedom, receiving lettera the old Russia that some conces and presents in abundance.""" slons were inevitable. The plantsWWFA of converting the absolutism of The news of the second revalu-may be read Lez reale. Tsar Nicholas II. into constitution-known as the October or tional monarchy was much dis-Bolshevik revolution-took a fort- cussed. Even members of his own night, to reach Tobolsk Towards family thought it would be wise the end of November a committee mentioned earlet rived of two
million franes were on route if he were to abdicata in favour of soldiers. was formed to guard Gafé St. Lazure for deglitch to of his brother Michael Alexandre- the Romancifs, for it was feared the Hongkong Bank S vitch. But the Tsar himself re-that an attempt would bò made to The case was diacovered to mained entirely unimpressed by rescue them and place them at the gathering symptoms of die the lead of a counter-revolution-missing when the van arrived
'the station. Fortunately, the aster. On March 11 there was ry movement. As an additional securities cannot be disposed of in serious rioting and revolution was precaution they were transferred France. — Reuter in the air. On that day he wrote to Ekaterinburg, They dreaded to the Military Governor of Lenin- the journey, but the Tsaritsa was grad-it was Petrograd then convinced that the ice on the Tohol order you to put an end to dis-would break up by diving inter ordera, unpermissible in the grave vention and their departure would period of war with Germany and be postponed. Nevertheless, the Austria, in the capital to-morrow. ice remained firm. The journey On the morrow it was too Inte. began on April 26. The Presidium The capital was in the hands of of the Central Executive at Mos- insurgent soldiers and workach, cow decided thy Nicholas at On March 15th the Tadr Addicted Ekaterinburg, where he was kept in favour of his brother. In his introduction Bykoff gives a brief account of the
the White Terror un- der Nicholas Romanoff. In the reare 1906 to 1909, he says, 6,268 men and women were sentenced to death by hanging in Russia. More than half of these were sentenced by the military courte "by order of his Majesty." In the year communicate secretly with the out- Southerners are getting nervous 1008 the number of executions, side world. As the capture of regarding their position in. Han- varied between seven and 36 Ekaterinburg by the Whites" kow every week..
When they heard that Nicholas was to be succeeded by Michael, the revolutionary masses were in- furiated at the prospect of having "yet another Tsar, and Civil war was feared. Michael Alexandio vitch was lever enough to sign document renouncing the succes-
sion.
SOUTHERNERS ANXIOUS,
DESPERATE PLIGHT OF
HANG
Shanghai, Oct. 1.
close prisoner. Trotsky was to
A message, from Hankow dated act as public prosecutor..
Sept. 30 atates that attacks on the But the civil war was spread-Southern forces are reported from ing to the Urals. Cossack irre both up and down river. Exton- gulars were advancing, and be- sive operations are in progress and hind them the Czech legionaries. Southern reverses are, reported Numerous attempts were made by from the Kiangel and Hunan unknown persons to get into topen fronts. with Nicholas." He, too, tried to
There are indications that the
seemed imminent and the trial of Anti-British propaganda has not, Nicholas could no longer take place been noticed in the vernaculaz as planned by the Moscow Execu-papers for some days, Reiter: "/ tive, the Soviet at Ekaterinburg, FURTHER EVIDENCE fearing that he might be rescued, decided upon his execution.
Moscow Executive's Approval
Peking, Oct. 1.11
That the tide is beginning to turn against the Southernera de Fegards the military situation in At midnight on July 16, 1917, Hupeh and Kiangal seema ind!- Nicholas Romanoft, his wife Alex-cated by the Istest telegrams from andra, his son, his four daughters, foreign sources, now reaching and four attendants were taken Peking.
Hope of Refuge in England..
into the cellar of the house in Hankow, messages of Sept. 29 Nicholas stayed at Tsarskoe. Selo-noly Detskop Selo. His per-which they were imprisoned and state that there is ample evidence shot. Their bodies were buried that Sun Chuan-fang's troops are. sonal safety Was by no means sure in the forest. All traces of the approachlan Hankow northward He hoped he might find a refuge
in England with his family. The burial-place were removed so that of the Yangtze, and have already British Ambassador, Buchanan, the Whites should never find it reached Kwangchow, forty miles informed the Russian Foreign When the Moscow Executive heard below Hankow
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Once that "His. Britannic Ma- of the exception it decided that, Large bodies of Klangsaites have jesty's Government would be hapin the circumstances, the Ekater- bean seen in the vicinity of Taych inburg Soviet had acted rightly Lake, at which the Cantonesa aro py to provide a refuge in England Michael Alexandrovitch was held stated to have suffered a sovere for the Russian Tear." In tha night of March 22 the Executive prisoner at Perm. His execu- reverso.
Indications point that this force of Petrograd Soviet hend of the lion was dehidnded in mass mest- plan to allow Nicholas and his ings and demonstrations of gol is moving westward, towards the family to leave for England. The diers and workmen. On the night Hankow-Canton line; thence north- Soviet decided to arrest them, even of July 12 to 18 he was kidnapped westward towards Wuchang. The at the risk of a breach with the who cluded his guard by means thorities at Hankow appear much
By some workmen from the town Southern military and civil au Provisional Government. Deputa of forged papers. They took him less optimistic with regard to the tion upon deputation called upon
situation. Reuter, Kerensky to have Nicholas 11 into the forest and shot him."
d
ecuted, or at least to have lim In The remaining Romanoff-the terned in the fortress of Peter and Grand Duchess Fedorovna, the prisoners at Alopayevsk. As the Paul or at Kronstadt. In june Grand Duke Sergel Michailovitch "White Front" approached, "the the Provisional Government re- and Yelena, the former Queen of Ural Soviet decided on their exec ceived an official intimation from Serbis, the three sons of the Grand tion also. They were shot in the London that Nicholas would no Dake Konstantin – Konstantino- night of July 17 to 18. Ekaterin-
Ї longer be welcome there, that the vitch, and the sons of the Grand Burg was taken by the "Whites" on admission of the former Taar and Duke Paul Alexandrovitch--were the 25th
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