The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-12
ROYAL FAMILY IS NO LONGER ABLE
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AMSIERDAM.-M Marie Feodor- ovna, former dowager empress of Russia and mother of the late Elm peror Nicholas, not long ago com plained to Darachuk, leader of the Bolshevik Soviet at Yalta that her allowance of 100 rubles a week was insufficient.
 "The Soviet wants a clerk" re- torted Darachuk jeeringly. If you want to supplement your income the position is open to you"
 Evidently the former dowager em- press disdained to reply. This in formation comes from Dr. Leo Led erer, who was sent to Yalta by the Berlin Tageblatt to ascertain the condition of the members of the formerly royal families of Russia. The colony at Yalta consists of fif- teen persons including the former Grand Dukes Nicholas and Peter, their wives who are daughters of the king of Montenegro, and the former Grand Duke Alexander Michailo- witch and his family
 They are living in Duelber Castle, near Livadia in the Crimea Their lives were made extremely miserable when the extremist Soviet at Yalta early this year assumed control of the palace and ignored directions from Petrograd.
 All were in constant fear of their lives reports being rife that the Yalta soviet was planning to murder all Homanoffs. Attempts actually were made, it is said, to kill various members of the colony, but all were frustrated by the watchfulness of the loyal sailor guards.
 Great relief was experienced when the Germans took control. They at any rate had no designs on the lives of the exiles
 Neither the dowager empress nor the grand dukes," Dr. Lederer writes, "are regarded as prisoners, and their desire to live in the Crimea as priv ate persons is fully respected. Only, like all other private persons, they may not leave the Crimea without the special consent of the German commander.
 Life at the castle is, it is true, freer and quieter but not more lively than in the time of the Bolsheviki rule. Reading among the castle in mates is restricted to Russian news papers which arrive daily, and their intercourse to occasional visits of the Yussupoffs or the Princess Wais- zinski. The young grand dukes, who amuse themselves with cricket and ball in the park, alone bring a little life into the solitary palace. Some of the grand dukes are moving to Aitodor."
 The dowager is said to have aged considerably but she continues to hold herself proudly erect. Nicholas also has turned very gray and his face is deeply wrinkled. Neither pr. Lederer says, has lost any anti pathy to Germany. All the inmates of the castle appear to believe in the restoration of the monarchy, al though in a democratic, constitu.. tional form. They do not regard as impossible the return of a Roman off to the throne.
 A domiciliary visit to the castle by the Sebastapol Soviet last year resulted in the theft of a number of valuables. One member of the visiting party, ragged sailor, stole the Grand Duke Nicholas boots, leaving his own worn out ones in exchange
 Nicholas morganatic daughter has been married to the Polish Count Tyszvitch. The wedding was quietly celebrated in little local Catholic church, whither the party proceeded in hired cabs. Nicholas insisted on donning his brilliant white field mar