M. STOLYPIN SHOT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1234, 16 September 1911, Page 5

M. STOLYPIN SHOT.

ATTACKED AT ROYAL FUNCTION.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (liec. September lfl, I a.m.) St. Petersburg, September 15. A sensational . incident occurred at Kieff while the Tsar was performing tho ceremony of unveiling a monument to tho Emperor Alexander 11.

During an interval a lawyer named Bogrof shot J[. Stolypiu, President of tho Council of Ministers, and Minister for tho Interior! The bullet perforated tho lung and lodged in the spine.

Another bullet wounded a musician. Tho audience tried to lynch, the miscreant, who was arrested.

Tho audience afterwards insisted on singing tho National Anthem. There was no sign of a conspiracy.

M. Stolypin's life lias been attempted on numbers of occasions. A recent writer says of him: "A tall, poivcrfully-built man of great physical strength, M. Stolypin might pose for a statue of strong and ruthless autocracy. Never in its long history has the Tsardom had a fitter mouthpiece, a more suitable representative. IT. atolypin is a man who never smiles. I have never seen him otherwise than stem, fixed, tense, like a crouching lion, like a pilot' steering a ship between deadliest rocks. His grimncss seemed to be rather to bo that of a man facing death every hour of tho twenty-four, and facing it at close range whenever ho addressed the second Duma. Outside the Duma, in the theatres, in the parks, at political gatherings, no man had ever seen tbat iron visage, for exposure meant death. „ "Nobody save members of the secret police had even seen the president of the Council enter or leave the Duma, but we knew that he sometimes slept night after night in the'legislative buildings in order to disappoint the emissaries of revolution who were awaiting him outside. When he did leave, he never went straight home. Wherever he slept, a small army of police and soldiers watched. One could not help feeling some admiration for a man whose lust for power led him to brave the terrors of a life like this."