REVOLUTIONS HATCHED HERE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 252, 17 October 1908, Page 3

REVOLUTIONS HATCHED HERE.

The mysterious "Congress of Russian Extremists," which has recently been holding secret sessions at Netting Hill, London, may, or may not, have been planning a fresh revolution against the' Tsar's tiovernmeul.

But this much is certain: similar meetings here in England have frequently been followed by concerted uprisings in varans, parts of the globe. The brand-new Turkish constitution, for example, was drafted in a house in West London, situated within live minutes' easy walk of the (Ittumfcu Embassy in Portland Place; and it is an open secret amongst the under-world of journalistic London that an advaiuc copy of the actual document itself was offered by a certain "unattached" reporter to' the editor of one of the big London daily newspapers for a .t.j note —and refused.

In the autumn of l!l(i:i, again, a secret conclave of Armenian revolutionary leaders at Nunhcad heralded an attempted insurrection in thil distracted country. Nor did the conspirators i'l this instance escape scot-free, for they quarrelled amongst themselves, an 1 three of them, including the President of the Congress, M. Sagouui. were 'Shot dead in the streets ol Peckhain by a fellow-plotter, who forthwith committed suicide. Then too. there was the case of the bloodless Brazilian revolution of IBf >, which was engineered jointly from London and Lisbon and Paris; while everv schoolboy knows that Italy would not be Italy to-day were it nut for the agitation conducted in London in the forties by Mazzini and his followers.