PRINCE KRAPOTKINE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1081, 10 March 1883, Page 3

PRINCE KRAPOTKINE.

Prince Krapotkine, who has just been tried at Lyons for being concerned in the recent revolutionary outbreaks in that city, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment, has long been one of the principal leaders of the Russian Nihilists. He is described in a remarkable work entitled,' La Russia Scotteiranea,' by ' Stepniak,' a nom de plume meaning ' the son of Steppe,' as an admirable orator, a distinguished savant, a rigid and impracticable theoiist, a poor conspirator, and an incomparable agitator. The Standard of 3rd November gives the following communication from Byrne with reference to the movements of this notorious conspirator : 1 The authorities of Vaud and Geneva are unable as yet to furnish the Federal Council with information relative to anarchical conspiracies on Swiss soil. Prince Krapotkine, no doubt, is often at Geneva, to visit his Russian friends there, but his visits would not be observable by the police, as he lives at Thonon, in the Haute Savoie, whence he coiild readily run over by train or steamboat. The French Government, it is suggested, might easily watch his movements by prohibiting him from taking up his abode on the frontier, and requesting him, if he lives in France at all, to keep in the interior of the country, as Switzerland did to Mazzini in 1869, and Don Carlos in 1873. The Government of Geneva has, moreover, been requested by the Federal Council to see that the decree ot expulsion against Prince Krapotkine is duly enforced.