A BOGUS FINNISH PLOT.
DUMA WANTS LIGHT ON THE SECRET POLICE. THE TSAR'S PENDING ARRIVAL. (Eic. December 23, 11.10 p.m.) | St Petersburg, December 23. I ; Further: details show that there was a'bomb beneath the table at whioh Colonel ■ Karpofl sat. when -he, visited • Vosskressensky's', apart ment. Connection was mado with the: bomb from outside the room, by means of on electric-wire. Both Karpoff's legs wero hurled into the flat below,' through a cavity. in the floor made by tho explosion/ . \ ' ■ i. Owing to tho discovery of maps and guides to Finland among Vosskressensky's papers, the populace believe that Colonel Karpoff was engagod at the timo in the manufacture of false evidence, and other papers,'to enable'the police to make a; large number of arrests..
[The' Russian Government has inaugurated a period of repression in' Finland, and is said to be aiming at another Bobrikoff dictatorship. A ; bogus Finnish conspiracy would be a good pretext to rob Finland of its, autonomy, and to oppress tbo Finns.] .The Duma accepted an interpellation accusing the secret police of. participating in Terrorists' acts, and asking the Government for the names of tho secret police concerned.. ! Tho Karpoff affair" has ; caueed a profound sensation in St.. Petersburg, owing to the expected arrival of the Tsar for the funeral of his grand-uncle, the Grand Duke . Michael Nicolaievitch. •
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 5
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220A BOGUS FINNISH PLOT. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 5
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