Troubles in Russia.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 136, 13 June 1904, Page 4

Troubles in Russia.

ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP CIU'ISERS. An attempt has been made to blowup the new Russian cruisers Jemtchug and Izumrud, tyiilt at the Neva shipbuilding yards ami now being armed, says a Helsingfors message published in a late London file. Four floating mines were sent sown the river from Schlusselburg, but were seen by chance by some lxiatmen, who took them from the water opposite the yard before they had done any damage. It is thought that the originators of the attempt are two Finns who were seen recently by some peasants carrying suspiciouslooking articles somewhat of t Id, shape of the mines in question. Considerable discontent is also known to prevail among the Finns, who still entertain a smouldering resentment against Russia. PLOT IN POLAND. A plot has been discovered at Warsaw in which the recently-formed Polish Separatist Revolutionary party were implicated. The party, profiting by the difficulties caused to Russia by the war, wished to raise the standard of revolt in Poland. It is stated that eighteen of the conspirators have been tried and hanged. Many Polish workmen employed in St. Petersburg are reported to have been arrested in connection with the plot. SECRET PRINTING PRESS AT WARSAW. The police have discovered a secret printing press in Warsaw used by the Polish Revolutionary Separatist party. Twenty-five thousand seditious proclamations were seized. The occupants of the premises where the seizure was made offered a vigorous resistance to the police, firing on them with revolvers, and wounding a police officer in the shoulder and two non-commissioned officers in the legs. Twenty-five arrests were made. _ M. Niedzelski, the proprietor of the establishment, fled abroad. POLICE OFFICERS KILLED. On Wednesday a party of police, consisting of the Deputy Ch'ief. of the Secret Police, the Deputy Police Commissary, and two agents, on attempting to enter a house in the Dvorckystrasse, Warsaw, were attacked by a band of men armed with revolvers and knives, lioth the officers were killed, nnd one of their men was severely wounded, and the other slightly. Four memtors of the band ""•re arrested.