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Show CONFIRMS DEATH OF CZAR. Romanoffs Butchered by Bolshevik, ' " Reports French Officer. San Francisco. Confirmation ol" the execution of the former emperor of Russia and his wife and daughters under particularly revolting condi!:;-i'-s by Bolshevik troops was made here March 24 by General Robert C. Paris, one of the first French officers to be assigned to the Czecho-Slovak army iu Russia. General al'ris is on his way home to make an official report of the occurrence to the French government. He arrived here the day before from Vladivostok. Nicholas and his family were shot in the basement of their house at Ekaterinburg, Ekater-inburg, Siberia. The women of the once royal family were subjected to indignities and mistreatment in the presence of the former czar before the executions took place, Genei''1' ---Paris said. A few- days following the murder the bodies were taken under cover of night by automobiles into near-by villages, where they were cut into small pieces and burned separately. The charred remains were found by officers of the forces opposed to the Bolsheviki. |