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Show Strange as It Seems by John Hlx av The World nak frtndi nd Rutiin. I ' ' V -IHt -STRIKING NM AWT VMtlPNfc- ,!vi1W)UAm bowling exptd, Of' V 4-ARMY MAN Strange as It seems, Alexis Th urn-Taxis wore five different uniforms uni-forms during the World war U. S. naval reserve force, U. S. army, Czecho-Slovak army, French army and Imperial Russian army. While a staff officer to Admiral Kolchak at Omsk, Siberia, 1918-19, Thurn-Taxls was among the first to enter the house in Ekaterinburg where Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed. "It is possible the Grand Duchess Anastasia escaped," Thurn-Taxls says. "I met a girl who, I am convinced, really Is Anastasia." Thurn-Taxls is shown above in the captain's uniform of th Czechoslovak Czecho-slovak army. Tomorrow: Castle In the Air! |