TROUBLE IN RUSSIA
A BOMB OUTRAGE FRUSTRATED MMKUt MILITARY PLOT DISCOVERED. TRE3S ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT •Roctivtd 4.46 p.m , Ou>. 21. St. Petersburg, Oat. 20. Tha perpetration of a bomb outrage was narrowly averted at Keonßtadt, An in* fantry man named Viaesoff, went to a place where a court-martial was in p-o-< ) gress, He requested a policeman on duty baud a paroel to soldiers guarding prisoners on trial, Aa examination of the paroel revealed the ocntsnts to be a powerful bomb weighing five pounds. V/assoff was immediately arrested. He confessed that tbe soldier to whom the paroel was addressed would have banded it to a bluejacket who was undergoing trial, and wbo m turn would throw tbe missle at tbe oommandant of tbe fortress and jadges’ table. Tbe plot was to avenge tbe reoent /sentences and executions. Tbe woman by whom the parcel was brought from St. /Petersburg was arrested, together with the .military plotters.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1911, 22 October 1906, Page 3
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