The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-07-16
RUSS EMPRESS
BURNED ALIVE.
SAYS COURIER
Former Official of Court Tells
Sensational Story Of Deaths
American is Killed in the
Fighting.
OTHERS ARE MISSING
(By Associated Press)

PARIS, July 16-The Russian en-
press and her children were burned
alive after the execution at Ekaterin-
burg. it is alleged on statements
attributed to Alexis Dolrovitz, form
erly courier to the empress, published
here today. Dolrovitz said he made a
vain attempt to save his mistress and
her children
The empress and her children were
taken to wood near Ekaterinburg.
Brushwood was gathered and huge
fire made, into which the royal vic
Tins were forced. Every time they
tried to get out of the flames they
were driven back at the point of a
bayonet.
Tatiana, the empress second daugh-
ter. fled from the fire three times
and fell pierced through by bayonet.
The empress, clasped in close en-
brace, walked almost into the flames
and disappeared in a whirl Of smoke,
according to Dolrovitz.
WARSAW, July 15.-One American
has been killed and another is miss
ing in the battle between the Poles
and Russian Bolsheviki in the region
of Minsk, according to reports from
the front.
Alexander Ucziwek, of Chicago ILL.,,
an American Y. M. c. A. worker with
the Polish army, was shot and killed
by Bolshevik attired in a Polish uni
form, while Captain Merton Cooper,
of Jacksonville, Fla, has been miss
ing for four days since starting an
airplane reconnaissance.
Ucziwek came to France as Y.
NJ. c. A. worker and later was sent to
Poland with General Haller's forces.
He was loading American supplies to
be taken to the rear when he was
killed. Captain Cooper, a member of
the kosciusko squadron, was recently
mentioned as the successor of Major
Cedric Fauntleroy as commander of
that famous body of aviators.
Believe Cooper is Safe
Members Of the squadron believe
Captain Cooper is safe, as his flights
over the southern Polish front have
been above open country, for the most
part, and he may have been forced to
land within the Polish lines"
Mrs. Alphea Patterson, of Cincin.
natl, o., is with women soldiers in the
region of Wilma, having charge Of the
distribution of Y. M. c. A supplies
She came to Poland last fall, driving
an automobile across Germany from
France.
BERNE, July 15-The Russian Boil
come to standstill according to ad
,o1,
the counter offensive of the Ukrain
ian forces is making progress. The
Ukrainian armies are being backed uI
by growing forces Of volunteers form
ing in the rear of the Bolsheviki, and
aided by the extensive uprising OF
peasants.
SPA, Belgium, July 16-British Of
ficials here denied this morning that
any reply had been received from the
Russian soviet government relative tc
the British proposal for an armistice
between Russia and Poland.
WARSAW, July 15-Polish govern
mental authorities have agreed with
the Lithuanians for the occupation oil
Wilma by Lithuanian troops, and this
SIep VIII SoOu US ldheu, dCCOIul u
information received in military quar-
ters.
The surrender of Wilma to the Lith
uanians was conceded by the sovie1
government of Russia some time age
in negotiations between the two
countries.
LONDON. July 16.-Continued sue
cess by the Bolsheviki in their opera
| tions against the Poles along the
northern sector of the front, is an
nounced in Thursdays official state
ment from Moscow, received by wire
less today. The communique says:
South of the River Villa Cn the
Wilma region) we defeated the resist
| ing enemy along the entire front Oul
advance is continuing energetically.
CA special dispatch from Kovno re
cived in London Thursday night re
! ported the occupation of Wilma by the
! Bolsheviki. This has not been Off
cially confirmed, but Warsaw advice
today say the Poles have agreed will
the Lithuanians for occupation of Vii
ma by Lithuanian troops. The signins
of a peace treaty between Lithuanis
and Soviet Russia was reported or
July 15)
"West of Molodecho Con the railwa.
! line between Minsk and Vilna) we ar
successfully continuing our advance
| and driving hack tha enamyb