NEW NIHILIST PLOT AGAINST THE CZAR.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1046, 9 March 1882, Page 2

NEW NIHILIST PLOT AGAINST THE CZAR.

Within the past few days the Russian police, without allowing the fact to become publicly known, have arrested a considerable number of persons in St. Petersburg, Charkow, Tcbernigeff, and elsewhere, charged with complicity in a new Nihilist plot. Among the prisoners are the chief of the police of an important provincial city, two daughters of a high State official, and two Jewish merchants, besides a number of students and certain active members of the Nihilist conspiracy. The new plot was of an extraordinary and almost fantastic character. It was decided to cause a kind of balloon or flying machine to ascend near the palace at Gatschina. The balloon was to carry a quantity of dynamite and explosive fireballs, together with appliances which would secure that the balloon should fall within the palace yard, when it would explode and set the palace on fire. In the confusion it was intended to secure the person of the Czar, as well as the other members of the Imperial family who might be present. The machinery seized by the police shows that everything was in readiness for the execution of this plot. Nor is it likely that its realization would have been frustrated but for the temerity of a younger member of the secret league, who wrote an anonymous letter to the Czar, informing him that Gatschina would shortly be burnt to the ground, and that he would soon be a prisoner in the hands of the Nihilists. This letter waf

handed to the police, who soon obtained a cine to the members and headquarters of the new plot, the first arrests being the two Jews, who were found to be providing the materials required by the conspirators.