The Anarchist Outrages

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 202, 29 December 1893, Page 2

The Anarchist Outrages

«-. THE BAKCELONA OUTRAGE PLANTED IN LONDON. (Times Special Correspondent). Loxvon, November 17. THE ENGLISH AUTHORITIES PASSIVE. The English Government sees no necessity to put a stop to the preaching of the gospel of wholesale murder, and whilst the shudder of horror caused by the ghastly outrage at the Lyceo was still upon us, a creature was allowed to get up upon the base of the column erected to the memory of England's greatest naval commanders and say, "Our comrade in Barcelona has done a great and good act." At a meeting of Anarchists at the South Place Institute a person named Samuels said, "I claim the roan who threw that bomb as a comrade," and it is reported that " loud cheers greeted the utterance." "We must," he bellowed, "have our own again some day; "They murdered our comrades, and we must murder them." "Twenty-three killed— how sad P quoth Samuels sneeringly. "Yes, sad, but not so sad as the hundreds of men and women who die of starvation in England ; not so sad as the twenty thousand miners starving to-day in our midst. An eye for an eye ; aye, twenty eyes for one eye. I claim that the unknown man at Barcelona has done better work than any philosopher. He has caused such a terror that the rich are afraid to walk, in the streets of the town for fear of bombs. I don't blame these men for being bloodsuckers. I don't blame a dog because he is a dog ; but I'll kick him if he bites me. We expect no mercy from these men, and we must show them none." Considering this it is a vital question whether the authorities can afford to stand by with folded arms, and to Londoners there is a yet more important point ; "How long are we going to offer a comfortable home to all the sulking Anarchists of the world." ANARCHISTS AT WORK IN LONDON. There is abundant evidence that the Barcelona outrage was planted and the bombs for its perpetration manufactured in the metropolis. And not only has this fact come to light, but one member of the Russian Anarchist group, who has fled to- London to escape from the Czar's police, has acknowledged to a pressman that the bomb exploded with so fatal an effect at the Lyceo was the signal for the commencement of a series of similar dastardly ' outrages, by which the Anarchists intend to carry on their war against the present constitution of society. A PANIC ON THE CONTINENT. Meanwhile the Spanish authorities are straining every nerve to bring the miscreants in their country to book. In Catalonia the Constitution has been suspended ,by a special decree The Executive has had a free hand, and the tribnnals will proceed summarily against the Anarchists. Dozens of suspects are already under lock and key, and arrests are being made every day. But the actual perpetrators of the Lyceo murders are still at large, and it is believed they have made good their escape to London. The French Government, according to Figaro, is watching the Spanish frontier closely, and every person crossing the boundary between the two countries is narrowly questioned, and in ewes where their answers are not deemed entirely satisfactory they are detained, pending the arrival of certain detectives from Paris and Madrid. Naturally, some* thing very like a panic prevails in Spain over the recent work of the Anarchists. STARTLING DISCOVERY. It now appears that the police are in possession of a document found amongst the papers of the Walsall Anarchists when they were captured in London in 1892. The MS. is headed " A Fete at the Opera." the whole of which is devoted to the description of the blowing up of an English theatre while full of people. The plan is truly fiendish. The Anarchists, with bombs in their pockets, were to take up positions in the gallery of the theatre to be attacked, as near an uncovered gas pipe as possible. Cn an opportunity offer* ing, the pipe was to be filed through, and the gas allowed to escape for fifteen, minutes. At the expiration of this time, and at a given signal; the bombs were to be thrown simultaneously into the stalls. The explosion would naturally ignitethe gas in the theatre, and the devastation and loss of life ensuing would be sufficient to satisfy the most bloodthirsty of this Anarchist crew. Proofs exist that this document has recently been circulated extensively on the Continent, yet with these facts in their possession, and having a knowledge- of the whereabouts in the Metropolis of some of the vilest of the Anarchist gang, the police take no action. ,