Petrograd, August 16. The “Bourse Gazette’’ states that the Imperial Family have been sent to Siberia by a special train accompanied by two Members of Government and Military Guards. It appears that the Committees of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates insisted on the removal of the ex-Tsar, Tsaritza and Tsare witch from Tsarskoyeselo to a more remote part of Russia. The daughters were given the choice of remaining in Petrograd, but they elected to accompany their parents.
The Tsar and family have been secretly removed from Tsarskoyeselo to a destination to be announced later. Complete secrecy shrouded the removal of the Imperial family which was resolved on in the middle of July upon political and military grounds by the Provisional Government without consultation with the Council of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Delegates. Government took every precaution to ensure their safe removal.
