25 AUGUST 1917, Page 2

The ex-Tear Nicholas, with his wife and children, has been

sent to Siberia. He is at present at Tobolsk. The Provisional Govern- ment's reasons for deporting him from Tsarskoe Selo to the remote interior are not clearly stated, but may easily be inferred. It is undesirable from their point of view that the ex-Tsar should fall into German or counter-revolutionary bands, and that possibility, always remote, is now excluded.