4 JANUARY 1919, Page 11

THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL FAMILY.

(To sus Enrol m vas " firecrama."1 Sm,—If the story told in the Times a few weeks ego of the Bolsheviks' murder, at one tremendous moment, in a collar, of the Tsar Nicholas II. and his Consort and their family woo as true as the Tintes seemed to think it, it was as execrable a crime of its sort as history records. Yet no comment upon it of any sort has followed, so far as I have seen. It occurred to me to write an epitaph suggested by Dido's dying cry for retri- bution .— Vulturis humani nor praeda Jammu s; at alter Onibus a nostris exoriare aliquist