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Show KILLING OF CM AND HISflMILY LONDON, Dec. 5 A despatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Amsterdam says the Kiev newspapers publish a story given by the valet of the former empress of Russia, of tho murder of the entire Romanoff family by the Bolsheviki. According to this story. I the once royal family was compelled to live in a single room of a convent at Ekaterinburg for weeks before the murder, under guard of Bolshevik sol-diors sol-diors who Insulted them shamefully. The valet said on July 17 all the members of the family were taken to the cellar of the convent and placed against the wall and shot. The murderers mur-derers granted the last request of the former emperor, that his wife, who was ill, should die in his arms. According to the valet the grand duchess Tatiana was only wounded by the shots and was killed by blows from the rifle butts. All the bodies were burned. |