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THE MURDER OF THE TSAR IMPERIAL FAMILY'S AWFUL END.

twenty-three; Maria, nineteen; and Anas tasiu, seventeen; tho last-named "fragile and lurely as an opening flower, sereno with thedivine innocence of childhood and radiant with the bright charm, of girlhood and health.

THE SECRET TELEPHONE.

A NEW RACE OF PYGMIES. MUST THE OPERATOR TELL! OF UNUSUAL POPULAR INTEREST. ASSASSIN'S MISERY;

The following extract is from a recent

The discovery of a new race of pygmies issue of the London Daily Express

Lin the virgin forests of the Belgian Congo Lighe murder_of_the Tax and his family

Must the telephone girl tell is the newbergh, wil be of interest not only to all by the American missionary, Dr, Vanden- is told with intense" vividness by Mr. The Tear to his arm to his wife, the probiera in professional ethics that is anthropologists, but to the non-soientific Francis McCullagh in the current igue of

last time as ever to perform that act agitating the business worlds- D

man in the street, who has always shown The Nineteenth Century, History AN

a greater curiosity in the dwarf than is of courtesy. Even in that appalling descent Consternation, has been caused in London the giant, (says the Daily Telegraphy pieced together from the evidence of to darkness and doom, the Imperial party and elsewhere by the calling of a telephone The tradition of the existence of pygmy witnesses at Ekaterinburg and Grow Rusiantomatically preserved the order of pre-operator to give evidence in a sensational races has been strong since the days of official reports. All Berounts, although cedence which long practice had made a eriginal case before the courts,

Homer, and they have usually been locat Heads in Africa. Homer's little people, who sometimes differing in mir detail corond anure with them and which even the of firms are awaiting with the keenest fought the erases when they were vexed borate one another on the casin fack. Finconveniences of prists life had never interes, the reply of the Postmaster Gen-by them, dwelt in Afrien; Herodotus'a That the what which killed the Tsar was caused them to neglect. The Emperor and erg to the question pu: down by Captaining from west to east, also dwelt beyond Pygmies, who lived near a big river flow- Ared by Yankel Yurovsky, a Jew, the shop his wife went first. arm in arm, dignified Tudor Bees, who wants to know whether the Cpper Nile; Aristotle who was not keeper and civilian who was Commandant

but trembling as if to meet a greater operators are sworn to secrecy and we accepted the legends without incredulit ensily imposed upon by travellers" tales of Ippatieysky House, where the Imperial fonatch than themselves. Then came the ther it is in conformity with regulations and in our own time it is in Central, Family were imprisoned, is fully establish little Tsarevitch carried by Olga, bis eldest for an operator to listen to telephone con- Afrion that various pygmy tribes have. ed. This man, who ever since the ghastly sister,

been found: Then Tatians, Mario, Anastasia, Tersations.

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Harry Johnston has butcher in which he took the leading part, then the others in due order of their res of Commons, and I cannot forestall the from the segritoes of the Philippine, and The question is now before the House given an admirable account of the trarf negrillows-so-called to distinguish them "been haunted by renieubrance, was

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I visited by Mr. McCullagh at the hotton i pective rank, with the humble, Faithful reply of the Postmaster General," said Andaman Islandswhom he encountered in y given him by the Bolsheviks, almost oppo/cook bringing up the rear The cook, the Mr. Prestor; Controller of the Telephone his travels, and the string of epithets which site the former British Consulate in manservant, and the maid Demodoys would Service, to a Daily Express representative. be applies to them

THE GIRLS' VIEW. Ekaterinburg. He received his visitor at have been spared if they had not exhibited le. the end of a dark passage, his head bent, in all their cunversations with the Com listening in deep silence and with trembling missors an unalterable adelity to the door limb; in exactly the same stutude that, ad family which they had served so long. bo waited outside the Tsar's bed-mon ou Let us honour the memory of these your the might of the murder.

people, though, except in the case of Deme dova, their games are unknown to us. ' visor. But neither the supervisor murazo

are much more intelligent than the big

THE JEW MINDEREL

THE SUGNE IN THE CELLAR.

Telephone girls were less peticent,

Every operator on entering the tele phone service is required to take a vow of sterrey and Gign to take or undertaking not to divulge anything what soever that she may hear," said a super- About forty years of age Yarovsky is

|other girls who have pledged themselves to described as looking much older; his aquara,

After the cook came the representatives secrecy were able to any whas would be sallow face, with its green eye-not dis of a different world, honded by Yurovsky, their position if ordered to tell." tinctively Jewish in appearance was gloomy and preoccupied, his brow dark with The law in regard to divulging the con- wrinkled; he wore an unkempt. greyish thoughts of murder, his right hand in his tents of telegrams is speclic, manustache, and had tumbled her hair, coat pocket, grasping a revolver. He was persun employed by the G.F.O. improperly Throughout the interview he talked of any followed by the Russian soldiers whom I divulges, the purport of

any telegram thing but the sinister events in which he have already referred to, and whose num will be guilty of misdemeanour, and participated. Shunned by the Bolsheviks, bers had now been increased by the arrival table on summary conviction to a fine not cursed continuously by the presence of his of several others who were on guard at Post exceeding 2; or on conviction on indict own thoughts, Yurorsky is a broken, nif- No. 4 and had come to the door of the tatat to imprisonment with or without bar demented man, and, as Mr. McCullagh ceilar to see what was going on, litle ex labour for one year, or to a fine of £200. judge, not long for this world," if he pecting, however, to find that their acad of the telephone message is similarly pro The understanding is that the secrecy duty at Ippatievsky had come to an end

nog already dead.

The following is the account, published The Nineteenth Century: 2

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If any

he

Prognathaus, beetling browed, short-legged." and apelike.

Some

of his photo Yully justify this rather uneemplimentary description, and when they squat on this are hardly distinguishable from a company grand to take their meals these pygmies. of spas. And yet we are told that they

have a highly-developed sense of humour negro tribe living in their vicinity, and which endows them with some of the agree able traits of Pack and Robin Goodfellow. Bir Harry Johnston's pygmies Were us- ally about 4ft, sin. in height; Dr. Via denbergh's tribe averages no more than aft, and is said to be very apelikein appearanc The males, we are told,. move with surprising agility through the tree branches, and, though completely un-) civilised, they neither lie nor steni, and have here the noble savage in duodecimo. are strictly monogamous. In short, we form, and we are driven to hope that their contact for a week with Dr. Vandenbergh will not be followed by any fall from such original grace, most curious, perhaps, to have atlantic Anthropologiets will be

reported as consisting of monosyllables information as to their language, which is distinguished by intonation." We have not sufficient of the gift of tongues to en able us to base any conjecture upon such a statement, but travellers who hava hoped to discover a distinct pygmy language. have always, we understand, been disap- pointed, because-the-negrilloes are invari ably found to speak substantially the same tongue as the negro tribe in the neighbo

Vandenbergh can contribute to its ef which has not been cleared up, and if Dr hood. How this comes to pass is a

lightenment, anthropology will be indebt- Major A. G. Grierson, R.M.L.I., ised to him. And always there remains the appointed to H.M.S. Atha, on staff of standing mystery about these little people - S.N.O., Yangtze, as D.I.O. Shanghai

Are they, so to

and they would never again be called upon t

The practice of listening in." to which to mount sentry over their imprisoned busines, men, who see a risk of all their At about one o'clock on the night of the Cosudars These soldiers saw through the office and private secrets becoming public murder Yurovsky entered the bed-rom of open door everything that afterwards, took property take exception, is countenanced the Tour, awoke him, and told him that the place, and it is the testimony of several, by the authorities. - Exch were expected in the town before especially Anatoly Yakimov and Steokin,! An operator is not only able to liten daybreak. Get up." he said and that I am principally using. They corro in, but must do so to some extent, in dem. It would be better for you and your borate one another in the most remarkable order to discharge her duty properly family to come down into the cellar, as manner, though the wometimes, differ on which is to see that the caller up is there may be fighting in the streets and minor details, and their evidence is confirm nected with the subscriber naked for," said stray bullets may come through these "ed by that of other witnesses,

a high official at the G.P.O. windows. I will wake up the others and The Tsar and his party clinstered together wait for you all outside.'

at one end of this underground chamber,, Yurovsky, who seemed to have Tatiana still holding the little Pekingese become unusually nervous and polito, then' in her arms, while the Lett soldiers as well brought to the Grand Duchesses the same as Yurovsky, Mrachkovsky and Metvictev message as he had brought to the Tsar, and, remained in deep silence at the other ad having done so, waited in the dining-room, the soldiers looking with strained and ex- where, several Lettish soldiers were stand-pectant eyes, now as Yurovsky, now at the ing with rifles and fixed bayonets, Along Tsar, Mrachkovsky and Metvister dres with them were five civilian Bolsheviks, their revolvers; and it must have been at Commissar Geloshakin, Commissar Mrach once evident to the victims that something kavsky, Paul Metvieter," the Sergeant of terrible was going to happen. It is a signi the Guard, and two others whose names, I ficant fact that them were only two Russians Mr. C. W. Heard acting leading man cannot ascertain. They had come at the amongst the executioners, and that sores, request of Karasky, to carry oititbe cre- there was not a single Romian soldier,been appointed storehouseman, Rayal Wil ention themselves få rose she sofdjére failed? --- SOVIET'S ORDER OF EXECUTION. Viliam Victualling Yard, Plymouth,

The Empressook'one swift, frightened theant only Frovsky, Hrachkovsky,

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.

has been appointed to the Carlisle, on Paymaster Licut-Commander B. Carter recommissioning.

whom we call Piginal man just emerged

from the tale of pedom, or are they a fair then the nigro stock

In words, are about them! immemorially old, the trke Peter Pans or humanity who refuse to develop and pre- fer still to go swinging through the treess and Metvjetov went into the cellar, the; look at the revolvers in front of her and Capt. A. Lowndes, C.B., who has suc others remaining in the dining-room until the pitiless countenhnees behind them, and ceeded Commodore H La P. Lewin as chief or are they the product of modern deteri." Apparently, scientific opinion word was brought them that the deed was, her eyes dilated with horror. Crossing her of staff to the Commander-in-Chief at oration? done. Though Mrachkovsky was present at self she bent her head and covered her face Devonport is a specialist in navigation "rongly indines to the former view, and the butchery he does not seem to have taken with her hand, Meanwhile Yurovsky. He commanded the Alacrity, Commander should therefore temper our curiosity part in it. Seeing that something unusual whose face had became white, had drawn in-Chief's yacht on the China Station, in regard to them with a restain reverent

In August, 1913, he respect.. was afoot, severu Russian soldiers of the farth a paper and begun to read it by the from 1910 to 1912: outergaard had drifted into the room and light of a lantern which one of the soldiers was appointed flag-caprain to Admiral stood looking on, upen-mouthed..

held up. He grasped the paper in his left Browning, then rear-Admiral coinmanding hand and clutched a revolver in his right. the Third Battle Squadron. The reading did not take more than three seconds, for the document was very brief.

ATHAN AND HAGGAKD EMPEROK.

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All day long they come to me, asid Mr. Thomas. They say Do you dare allege that I can't order a dinner?'

"I tremble, but soothe them and reply "No doubt you can order superb... dinners, exquisite dinners, but not so well as a man" can."

Solo Soufe Paiva, Timbale de Ris do Peau a l'Americaino. Cailles aux Muscht. Salado Japonaise.

Polres Milady Mignardises.

MENUS MADE BY WOMEN.

SECRET OF THE PERFECT DINNER. All the party, eleven in number, came out into the dining-room, fully dressed, "the

More than a hundred London hostesses Tair coming frst. With him came his wife, It was simply an order of the Soviet Recould not tell exactly what happened in were put on their mettle when their epícu- son, and four daughters, Dr. Botkin, public to execute "Nicholas Romanoy, the his brief space of time. Their minds weee rei powers were challenged by the article, Domedovn the maid. one male servant, and Bloody, and all his family," Yurovsky lastly the cook. The former Antceras of shouted it out rather than read it, and paralysed by the swiftness and the appal-Du Women Know How to Eat 1 which

ling greatness of the tragedy.

appeared recently in the Daily Express. All the Russia was so thin and baggard while doing 10, he hardly glanced at the The lamps crashed on the ground, where Mr. Henry Thomas, general manager of as to be hardly recognisable. I have this paper, the contents of which he knew by some of them were broken and some of them the Hyde Park Hotel, who made the daring description from the priest who said Mass heart, for he and Goloshokin had written flared up, filling the cellar with a yellow, statement, "A woman cannot order as good in the house a few days before. He wore it only an hour before.

smoky glare. The close, murky atmosphere dinner as a man," has since been forced * khaki-coloured military blouse belted at Crossing herself again the Empress now was lit by flashes of firearms and, in the to eat his words with many excellent the waist, loose blue cavalry breeches, soft, fell on her knees and was followed by all confined space, the noise of the explosions woman-designed dinners. leather high boots, but no cap. The Bol the rest of the doomed party who also cross-

was deafening.“ From the descriptions sheriks had deprived him some time bed themselves devoutly, The Emperor given by eyewitnesses, the soldiers were mad fore of his epaulettes and his George's alone remained standing, and while Yuray with rage and drunk with blood. They not Cross, so that he had no badges of military sky was still shouting out the final words only bayoneted bodies already dead, but raak. A few days previously the Empress By Order of the Soviet of Workmen's bens in the sails of corpses with the butt bad cut his hair owing to the great difficulty, Peasants, and Soldiers Deputies," he step- ends of their rifles. One of the soldiers, the prisoners experienced in getting waterped quickly in front of his wife and child who was there as a spectator, says that the for washing purpages, and he himself had ren as if to shield them with his own body, murder was so cruel that it was dificult to The upshot of it all is that every chef trimmed his beard so that it was shorter the ane time saying something which watch it, and I felt so faint that I had to in London has been turning out wonderful when he died than it had been for treaty was drowned by the sound of Yurovsky's go out many times into the open air to dinners, all planned by women whose pride years. All the others had had their hair voice recheing dreadfully in that small recover.!

Phas been sorely wounded.-- cut close for the name reason, the Tsarevitch chamber then pointing to his little ones,

THE FINAL VICTIM.

MARIA CULISARY-POEMS. . Until she fell dead, herself the maid. Hero is a woman-made dinner monu having had his locks shorn off by his crouching together. terror-stricken, on mother, and the Grand Duchesses having their knees, but his words were quite in Demedorn are her mushin vigorously to which experts consider a chef d'auvre in. cut off each other's Tuxuriant, trewe. A audible, Yurovsky, who, as I know from bent up the muzzles of the rifles which were its line: it was well-nigh impossible to get the rooms personal experience, is extremely quick in printed at the children, so that half-a-dozen

Cantaloup Frappé. cleaned out, all this hair was collected into his mental processes, saw at once what that bullets struck the upper part of the wall

Consommé Trette. a bundle and stuffed into a disused store gesture meant and instantly determined to or ricochetted from one wall to another, where, it was afterwards found by the prevent all possibility of Nicholas Romanov making marks which are still visible. One Whites, and identified by former servants making such a moving, human appeal for of these stray bullets took off the tips of of the Imperial family. The Tearins held his young girls and his little crippled boy three fingers of Yurovsky's left hand, and her little crippled son by the hand, might touch even the hard hearts of the the Commissar ben moved towards the and the Grand Duchess Tatiana car-executioners and lead to the lives of those threshold where one of the Russian soldiers. ried in her arms her little, Pekingese innocents being spared. His right hand standing there bound up the wounds with dog. The Tharovitch had also had rose like a flash; he fired and at the same a dirty handkerchief. Yurovsky scomed on gem and worthy of notice follows: a dog, but, as if it had some for instant the Emperor reeled and fell, shot the point of mounting the cellar steps to knowledge of the impending tragedy, it through the brain. The Tsar had andoubt have his hand better attended to upstairs had deserted the house ofthe previous day edly meant to beg that his wife and children when suddenly there was a shriek from-the and was last for some time. An officer of might not be butchered; but now, as ever, beautiful Grand Duchess Tatiana. who, General Knox's Mission afterwards found he was too late; and, though the noble having suddenly regained consciousness, 83+ it, and brought it to England with him gesture came, the words had not time to up shouting "Mother! Mother All the party then descended into the cellar followed MINA

Two or three of the soldiers instantly il silence, one of the Grand Duchesses carry-

jumped towards her, and, while some of and ing ber little brother in her arms, as owing

This fatal shot was the signal for the them ran their bayonets through her, others flavours is given by Mfr. Thomas :- to his lameness, he could not easily descend achers to begin shooting, which they did, beat in her head with the butts of their · the eps, the Grand Duchem Tatiana rais wildly; ond in five minutes from the time rifles. There were seventeen deep dents ing her dress with her left hand as she Yurovsky had begun reading the death war made in the cellar floor by bayonets. There stretched one foot cautionsly downwards in want, all of the Imperial party, save the are sixteen bullets boles in the wall and. the darkness while holding in her right arm Grand Duchem Tatiana and the maid sixteen hulleta were extracted from them by the little dog, which affectionately licked Demedova, had been killed. Tatiana, who the Whites after they arrived Some of was wounded, bad fainted and lay on the those bullets must have gone through the FAMILY'S PROCESSION TO DEATH floor like one dead, her little dog standing bodies of the victims before embedding⠀ It was a pathetic procession, mainly com. on top of her and barking furiously at the themselves in the plaster. Beveral which A luncheon which will serve as model had penetrated for a abort distance into the for many other woman to give to hir posed of helpless women and of a crippled soldiers until one of them killed it. invalid chiiet of fourteen Tears, the most After having shot the Tsar, the chief foor, must have passed through the corpses woman friends is given below. It is a far helpless of them all. There were two women assamin began discharging his revolver into as they lay on the ground. Nearly all the too dainty and fairy-like combination to be

mong them and four gentle girls, who if the terrified group huddled close together bullets struck the rall low down, showing wasted on the palate of a more man they had not been born in the purple, in front of him with faces expressing the that they had been fired at people who were Bandage Cantaloup.

Quis Crouilles aux Truffes,, would nevertheless have been celebrat extremity of human fear. Only he and God on their knees, ed for their

Filet do Sole à la Russo.. The narrative, continuing, describes great personal beauty know whether or not he also killed the little even in that land of

Poulet Sauté à l'Africaino, beautiful crippled Tsarevitch and some of his young Yudovsky's frantic efforte to dispose of all

Macedoira de Fraits, women. There, was Tatiana, twenty-one sisters; and it was this dreadful secret. I races of the bodies of his victims by hura Fears of age, a talented and kindly young think, which weighed on urovsky when I ing and burying them in the Kopchiki roman-aireads destined by Court gossips met him. Those who watched at the door Wood. The faces be obliterated by pouring to be the future Queen of England; Olga, (Continued at frat of next column.) jugs of sulphuric soid over them.

ber facc..

SOLDIERS DRUSK WITH BLOOD.

A little luncheon which is described as

Hors d'Œusto, CE: Benedictine, Cotelettes d'Agneau Marichal.

Haricots Verts. Pemmes Pont Neur

Frans de Prunes à la Crème, Another dinner composed by a woman.

quoted ns. a poem of harmonising

Grape Fruit Cocktail,

Petite Marmite, Timbala de Homard Newbourg. Carro" d'Agues'n à l'Africaine. Grouse aux Champagne.

Balade Mimosa, -- Souffle Burprise.

Friandises, an

"I take back all that I mail about women and ordering, was Mr. Thomhs' last word na” he gave these menus,

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