New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
Former Emperor and Fam
;Iv in Good Health, Asserts
Dispatch From Kiev
Account Is Doubted
BY German Papers
Rumor Persists That Mich
olas Was Shot by Guard
on Train

AMSTERDAM. June 2S.-A Berlin
dispatch says that. according to tele
cram received there from Kiev, a mem
her of the Soviet government an
nounced that the reports that former
Emperor Nicholas had been brought
before a revolutionary tribunal and
that he had been assassinated both
are incorrect. The government Official
adds that Nicholas and his family were
in GOOD health.
Western German papers just received
here seem to regard the reports Of the
death of Nicholas Romanoff as au-
thentic. The Russian newspaper
"Novaia Zhizn," edited by Maxim
Gorky, is quoted by the Hamburg
Fremdenblatt" as printing Kiev re-
port that Nicholas, while in train
with Red Guards. complained against
being transferred from Ekaterinburg
to Moscow and that he got into dis
pute with his escort and was murdered.
The dispatch adds that the daugh-
ters Of the former Emperor were un-
der guard in another coach and that
the fate of the former Empress and
tn former Crown Prince is unknown.
BASEL, Switzerland, June 2S.-Ac-
cording to local newspapers, the Rus
sian Embassy in Berlin is reported to
have advised the court at Darmstadt
that former Emperor Nicholas is safe.
PARIS, June 2S.-The court marshal
at Darmstadt, Germany. has received
a telegram signed "Tchitcherin" an
nouncing that Nicholas Romanoff, the
former Russian Emperor. has been
assassinated, says a dispatch to the
"Matin" from Berne. The assassina-
, ton took place between Ekaterinburg
and Perm.
LONDON, June %. The Crank
furter Zeitung" reports that NJ. Tchit-
cherin, the Russian Foreign Minister,
has telegraphed the Russian Minister
at Darmstadt that the former Russian
Emperor was murdered few days ago
between Ekaterinburg and Perm, says
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen.
The Wolff Bureau, the semi-official
German news agency, says it has
learned from Russian sources that the
former Russian Emperor was murdered
in train while leaving Ekaternburg
Immediately after that city had been
captured by Czecho-Slovak forces.
Repeats Reports of Alexis's Death
The Wolff Bureau also repeats the
reports that Alexis, the former Rus
sian Crown Prince, died fortnight
ago after long illness.
The Wolff Bureaus advices add that
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch of
Russia Is at Omsk and is heading an
anti-Bolshevik movement. Grand Duke
Michael, it is stated, has refused to as
sumo the throne, preferring to leave
the decision to an all-Russian popular
assembly.
At the Russian, Embassy it was de-
clased to-day that no official confrma-
ton had been received of the report
that the former Russian Emperor had
been assassinated. If the report is
true the crime is not a political one,
according to the embassy officials, but
merely an act of brutality on the part
OF an angly guard.
Regarding the unexpected appear
ance in London of Alexander Keren-
SKY, the former Premier of Russia, the
embassy said it knew of his presence
mere for several days, but chose to let
aim take his own time for revealing
himself.
The former Premier left Russia
rnder an assumed name because of the
boisheyik menace and on account of
price being placed on his head. it
was stated His fight, which lasted
several months, was attended by ad-
ventures of all sorts. He embarked at
hourmansk for England.
To Urge Allied Intervention
Members of the Russian Embassy
added:
"kerensky's political action will
ooviously consist of showing the En-
.ense Allies the necessity of intcrven-
ton in Russia"
parmstaa. is the capital of the Grand
nachy OF Hesse, and the former En-
press Alix is sister of the reigning
.,nd u,iand Duke. 1t is not unlikely that
sae Russian government, through For
Ign Minister Tchitcherin, would in
aesm the Hessian Court of the death
y Nicholas Romancff before making it
papi'c through regular channels.