AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1460, 22 May 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

GREAT SENSATION AT WARSAWI EXPLOSION OE A BOMB, DETECTIVE AND ASSASSIN KILLED. 2V LARGE NUMBER OK PEOPLE INJURED,. By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright, Received May 21, at 4.16 pj.m, ST. PETERSBURG, May 20., Last mon th the Warsaw police tlise cavieroti a plot to assassinate Gcne.rai Maksim O'V-i tch, the " Govern or.Gencrala

Since then he lias 'been frequently, threatened •with tombs, owing to his suppression of the May Day Ueinons'trabiona, and the shootings, of which a report was cabled on the 10 Hi- . In consequence thereof, lie has been specially protected. A few minutes before he and the officials were leaving Warsaw Castle yesterday to attend a Cathedral service in hpiior of the Czar’s birthday, a Polish revolutionary socialist, a shoemaker, named Dobrpwolsiki (who was seated outside a cafe, near the Cathedral), looked, nervously towards the castle.’

Ilia demeanor .exciting suspicion, two detectiives appjrqaoliod: from, opposite 'directions.

Each seized him by the hands, causing a bomb to drop from Dobrowolski.’s p.ocket. The homb exploded. Dobrowolsiki and one detective Were killed.

Twenty-one people were injured, including three l'adics, a student, an[d tw.o schoolboys. Of this niumber three were seriously injured. Many, arrests have been made.;