Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-22
DISPUTES BURIAL
OF CAR IN FRANCE
General Said to Have Taken
Ashes There Denies Know
ing Their Whereabouts.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, December ga statement
which deepens the mystery surrounding
the disposition of the purported remains
of the former Russian Car and other
members of the imperial family was re-
ceived by the Associated Press from
Gen. Maurice Janin yesterday.
The question of the fate of the Rus
sian royal family. which has been a
matter of wide speculation since the
Bolshevik revolution, was received last
week in dispatches from Prague. These
said Gen. Janin, who commanded anti
Soviet forces in Siberia in 1919, had
written a book in which he declared he
had brought the ashes and other re-
mains to France and buried them on
his private estate.
Telegrapts Statement.
Gen. Janin's statement yesterday
saws he does not know what became OF
the remains. He telegraphed as follows
from his home at Chateau Gerhard,
near Mems. in the Department OF lSere:
In 1920 I received at Hardin from
Gen. DietrichS four valises which con-
tanned, besides documents and objects
which bore a relation to the investlga-
ton into the assassination OF the i'm
perial Russian family, some remains
gathered near Ekaterinburg at the
places where the bodies were carved
into pieces and burned. They included
parts of bones and a finger presumed
to be that of the Empress of Russia.
This collection. intended to be for
warded to Grand Duke Nicholas of
Russia, was turned over by his request
to M. De Giers, former Ambassador to
Italy, after having been kept here three
months. I do not know where 1t is
now. (Signed) GEN JANIN."
Previous Reports Seem False.
Thus the statement tends to estab-
lish these things, among others:
That Gen. Janin did not acquire the
remains personally, as previously re-
ported in some quarters, but got them
from Gen. Dietrichs, who was chief of
staff for Admiral Kolchak, ruler of
Russia after the first revolution in 1917
and before the bolsheviks came.
That the remains do not lie buried
on the Janin estate in France.
That they we're handed to M. De
Giers by the express wish of Grand
Duke Nicholas.
That their present whereabouts is
unknown to those who had part In
the transportation.
Gen. Janin's references to valises is
deemed especially significant by per-
sons VINO were at OrlSk ana oIneT d.
berian cities during the ill-destined
military movement undertaken against
the Bolsheviks by White Russian forces
with the active support of the allied
nations
No Mention of Human Bodies.
It was revealed that mysterious
valises were supposed to have been
handed to some representatives OF
allied nations by a Swiss who professed
to be the tutor of the Cars children.
This man, who had escaped with
some relics of the imperial family, in
Guiding parts of their royal regalia, was
said to have been anxious that these
precious objects should be passed on to
imperial heirs.
Those who speak Of the valises, how
ever, heard no mention at the time
that they contained human remains.
The Siberian campaign, which was
defeated by the bolsheviks in 1920, has
given rise to a series of recent books.
One of the latest was written by Gen.
j. Rouquerol of France and it speaks
especially of Janin's activities, since
Janin was supreme commander of the
anti-Soviet armies. 1t says Janin, like
Kolchak, was destined to fail because
the opposing forces were too great.