Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-24 | Page 4 | Deposed Czar is under Guard with Czarina

DEPOSED GZAH IS UNDER GUD Latter Is Taking Care of Five of Her Children, Down With the Measles. SIBERIAN CITIES SUPPORT THE DUMA British, French and Italian Ministers Recognize New Government; Women on Committees, TSARSKOE-SELO, Russia, Thursday, March 22, via London, March 23, 12:45 p. m. On his arrival here today in the custody of four members of the duma, Nicholas Romanoff, the deposed emperor, em-peror, was turned over immediately to the Tsarskoe-Selo commander and taken : , to the Alexandrovsky palace, where the i'ornier Empress Alexandra already was interned. The special train carrying the former ruler arrived at 1:30 o'clock on ' the branch line outside Alexundrovsky park. On leaving thv1 train Nicholas entered en-tered an automobile, ..accompanied by his adjutant, Prince Dolgoroukoff, the only courtier of the first rank who accompanied ac-companied him, and by, the four duma commissioners. They were driven to the palace. Nicholas was met at the door in the left wing of the palace by Count Benc-kendorfx, Benc-kendorfx, who was his marshal of the court and is now under arrest. The former for-mer ruler held himself erect, looking calm and indifferent, although he vous haste. A battalion of the First rifle guard regiment was at the railroad depot. Nicholas Handed Over. The commander at Tsarskoe-Selo is Colonel Kobuilinsky, formiTIv commander comman-der of the Petrogradsky regiment, stationed sta-tioned in peace time at Warsaw. To I him the duma commissioners announced: : "Our mission of handing over the emperor is finished. We now gp to Petrograd to announce this fact to the v duma." The correspondent drove to the old Tsarskoe-Selo palace, which is deserted and without guards, and then to the ' new palace, whore the former imperial family is interned. The palace lies in a large park, which is surrounded by a plain, spiked fence, five feet high, coated coat-ed with silver paint?. Within the park, over the broad expanse of snow, not a : single person was visible. Apparently there were no guards within the park, but outside the fence, every fifty yards along the roadway, were double sentries from the Petrogradsky regiment in long blue coats, with fixed bayonets. Appearance of Desolation. Near the east wing of the palace is a detached building which formerly served as a kitchen. It is now occupied by the staff officer in command of the troops guarding Nicholas. Further on is the ' chief part of the palace, a long, two-story two-story building of pale yellow stucco, with white Corinthian columns reaching ; to the roof and two vast projecting side wings. The palace, when seen through a blinding snowstorm, makes a desolate and unattractive appearance. Children Have Measles. Concerning Alexandra and other mem-bers mem-bers of the family the following information infor-mation was given: All the five children chil-dren are in bed with the measles, for which reason Alexandra has not been outside the palace walls for two days. So far as is known no order has been issued preventing her from walking about the grounds. She has been forbidden for-bidden to use the telephone and telegraph tele-graph or have any communication with the outside world. This morning she requested permission td telephone to Princess Paratoff, a friend, asking as to her health. The request was refused, i. At the Nicholas gymnasium, a big building near the city hall, 2U0 adherents adher-ents and courtiers of the former emperor em-peror are under arrest. Former Spies Detained. In a big room on the first floor the correspondent found several persons in civilian dress, formerly palace spies and provocative agents. Here also were four Russian officers with German names, who had been arrested on suspicion sus-picion of having sent communications from the former empress to Berlin. In f """ " j Turks in Persia Imperilled Late dispatches show that the Kussians are pressing the Turkish Persian army hard west of Kermanshah. At the same time the British are advancing j up the Diala river, having reached beyond Bakubah, thirty miles from Bagdad. There is a clear possibility of the capture of the entire Turkish army in western west-ern Persia between the jaws of this trap. V MVANC.i,0 if A Hi. T -i f x ' AaI j? I ' FS"42 SCtE oTIi' '"'"toiSs-RusSlAN ARMY I o '0 20 w rO B1WW- BRITISH ARMY WW-TUfcKISH ARTTf I a neighboring room sat the director of 'the Tsarskoe-Lyceum school, who was a general in the army and a close friend of Rasputin, as weil as a reactionary member of the district court. On the second floor in a separate room Prince Putiatin is held. Prince Putiatin was one of reactionary Russia's Rus-sia's most powerful men. He was formerly for-merly private secretary to the emperor and in recent years director of the palace. pal-ace. Outside of Putiatin'? room three members of the civil militia armed with bayonets are on guard. The prisoners are well treated and the corridors are crowded with children waiting to see their parents.