The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-11-25
RUSSIAN EXILES HAVE HOPE
THAT CZAR is ALIVE IN SLAM

beIilil, NOV. ~. - huSSldH eui-
grantees" circles, as the Russian mon
archistic and nationalistic democratic
exiles abroad are known, are again
startled by reports that Car Nicholas
may still be living. More than 500,-
900 Russian Czarists and National
Democrats who fled before the Red
wave which engulfed Russia are
strangers in strange lands" living
off bounty Of others, off proceeds of
jewels smuggled out when they fled,
o. from other sources, waiting for
the overthrow of Lenine and Trotzky
Many Of these are loyal Czarists who
cling tenaciously to the hope that he
Is still living and will reappear at
the given moment.
That hope in their hearts has been
strengthened by !, Investigations made
BY secret agents of some of these
groups, whose reports summed up,
are that proof of the death of the
car is by no means complete or con-
vincing. A high officer of the staff of
Baron Wrargel, commander of the an
ti-Bolshevik army in Crimes, has told
me that he visited the place where
the bodies of the car and his FAM
lily are reported to have been cremat-
ed, and that it is by no means GER
tain that it was the czar himself, and
it was not wholly improbable that it
was a double Of, the czar who died
for his emperor. Proofs mentioned in
the official British and French reports
of investigations made on that spot,
among other things the finding of
metal buttons worn only by the
young czarevitch, he declared, fail
to satisfy many. loyal Czarists that
Nicholas Is dead. He pointed out
that so intense a fire which would
completely burn up human bodies
would also partly melt metal buttons,
but that the buttons alleged to have
been found were merely black, but
otherwise perfect.
Secret agents of the various groups
of emigrantes have been running
down every possible clue, rumor and
report about the czar. They cling to
the idea that general who looked
like a twin brother of Nicholas sac
rificed himself for the later. They
assert that a large part Of the Rus
sian people want their car back, and
that the Bolsheviki, knowing that, of
course, have produced proofs of the
death of the family.
General Woyeikow, commandant OF
the cars place at Tsarkoe Seloe,
near Petrograd, and one of the last
officers to leave him, declared recent
ly to me that he was convinced that
Nicholas was still alive. He would not
or could not state upo: what he bas-
ed that conviction.
Nicholas is reported TO have fled 10
distant Siam, where he is concealed
by the king of Siam. Other reports in
emigrante circles have 1t that Nicho-
las, SO affected by the death OF the
czarevitch and the czarina, who are
generally believed to be dead, escaped
ID Thibet and is there in an inacces-
sible monastery with the famous oc-
culet masters. The daughters, out
ragged by Bolsheviki soldiery, are be-
lieved to be in monastery in Siberia.
French newspaper reports from
Siam are that not the czar, but his
brother, Michael AleXandrovitch, in
whose favor Nicholas abdicated in
March, 1917, has taken refuge with
King Tchatrobon. The desire of the
Russian peasants for normal condi-
tions again and the wishes of the emf
grantees to return to their homes are
so strong that many believe pseudo
Nicholas could easily take advantage
o. the. situation to suddenly appear
When Lenine and Trotzky's regime is
at an end Other rumors are that the
French are keeping Michael in Siam
until the proper moment. when they
will support him for the throne.