RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8262, 16 October 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

CRIMES COMMUTED BY REVOLUTIONARIES.

A TERRIBLE RECORD.

Received October 15, 3.12 a.m ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. H,

Official returns just issued show that between February aud May of this y«*ar the revolutionaries killed and Bravely wouudel 1,421 Russian notables, including 34 Governors and town prefects, and 38 prefeota of police.

A STAGGERING LJ 3T.

So frequent have political crimes, assassinations and attempted assassinations, keen during the last two or three years (hat anything like a oomplete list would be extremely difficult to compile. The following, however, says the Post, are some of the most notable murders, or attempted murders, perpetrated since the death of M. Plehve, Minister of the Interior, who was blown to pieces by a bomb on Juiy 28tb, 190 i- : "Feb. 6—Herr Johnson, Procurator of the Senate, Helsingfors, killed. Feb. 17—Grand Duke Sergius assassinated. March 7—M. Jelstsobin, Chief of Police at Bielostok, killed. May 24 Prince Nakashidze, Governor of Baku, killed. July 11—Count Shuvaloff, Prefect of Moscow, killed. July 21—Colonel Kremarenko, Chief of Polioo at Viborg, killed. Oot. 13 —Assistant Chief of Poline Ossovosky, killed at Kishineff. Deo. 7—General Sakbaroff, exMinister of War, Governor of Saratoff, killed. Dec. 27—Chief of Police at Moscow killed.

1906. Jan. 1— General Boddanovitoh, Vioe-Governor of Tamboff, murdered. Jan. 11 —• General Dragorairotf, Chief of Police at Irkutsk, shot. Feb. B—Chief of Police, Kutaia, shot. April 7—M. Slepfczoff, Governor of Tver, murdered. May 5 Attempt on Admiral Dubassoff, Governor-General of Moscow, bis aide-de-camp and a sentry killed.

May 6 General Zhaltanorski, Governor - General of Elizabetgrad, killed. May 6 -Governor-General of Ekateriuosiav shot. May 15—-Admiral Nusnitob, Commander of the Port of St. Petersburg, killed by strikers. May 22—Police Captain Kovalevsky. of Warsaw, shot. May 30 General Alikanoff wounded by a bomb at Kutaia. June'lo Burgomaster of Siedloe and onief of Governor's offloe badly wounded.| June 11—Chief of Police at Bielostook shot dead. July 11—Admiral Chukhuin assassinated at Sevastopol. July 15—General Kozloff shot at Peterhof, being mistaken for General Trepoff. July 17—Colonel Maximoff seriously injured by a bomb at Tiflis. July 25 - Gendarmerie Colonel Salamatoff killed at Warsaw. July 28—-Two generals murdered'. Aug. 1 Professor Herzenstein, ex-member of the Duma, murdered in Finland. Aug. 10—Attempt on General Kaulbars at Odessa. Aug. 18—Attempted assassination of General Skallon, Governor-Gen-eral of Warsaw. Aug. 22—Commander of the Borrissov'Regimentj!atjSamara murdered at his residence. Aug. 25—M. Dayaloff (Court Chamberlain), Mr Kaostoif (exGovernor of Penza), Prinoe Nakahumidge, Prinoe Skokovoaky, and General Zamiatoi absassinated by a bomb exploded at Premier's residence. Aug. 27—General Minn murdered at Peterhof, and General Wonlarski shot dead. Sep*. 27—General AprolegoF shot dead at his residence.

1 SEVERAL ANARCHISTS ARRESTED.

Received October 15, 10.43 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 15. Several anarchists from abroad, including a former student, who were arrested on arrival at St. Petersburg, were found to have thirty pounds of dynamite in tnelr possession.

THE STOLYPIN OUTRAGE,

Two facts particularly strike the impartial onlooker at the Russian revolution : one, the complete isolation of the Government; the other, the extraordinary indifference with whiob outrages perpetrated against the servants of the Government are regarded by the'nation. Up till now (wrote the St. Petersburg correspondent o? the London Tribune on August 28th) I have not met a single person (outside Peterhof and purely Governmental circles) who expressed Tanything but satisfaction at the numbers of bureaucrats who have lately fallen victims—so broad is the wall whiob now divides "the heads or the Government from the people tbey govern. "What did you think <il the bomb outrage?" 1 asked the isvosohiok (cabman) who had been an eye-wit-nes of the event, as we drove towards the ruins of M. Stulypin's villa on Aptelcarsky Island. The isvosohiok, who himself had seen the house "fly up in the air" after the terrific explosion, reflected for a moment, and then said, with some hesitation—"Well, barin, tbey can't be exterminated one by one" (indicating a passing general with a motion of his head). "But if tbey oan be got rid of in batches of a hundred they will disappear iu time." \

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"But," I remarked, "Stolypiu is quite h new man; he has done no harm as yet." "They're all the same," the man replied emphatically. "Ihey closed the Duma. And now they have suppressed our 'Union of Isvosohioks', and ail the other unions."

I give the sentiments_of my driver as "typical of those prevalent in nearly all classes of society from the ignorant working classes to the tnoht prominent members of the liberal professions and people moving is society.

last night I dined with a dootor and his family. He has a very large olientele, including several Ministers and one former Premier. There were present at the table a justice of the peace, a prominent barrister, and several other persons of note, whose names I hadjbetter not mention; "Nominaodiosasunt." During the dinner one person ptesent was giving a detailed description of the murder of General Minn, and the destruction of M. Stolypin's villa. When the remarkable self-possession of thegmurderess of the former officer was being described, and the oleyer ruse by which the bomb-throwers succeeded in disarming the suspicions of the guardians of M. Stolypiu, all prosent listened With rapt attention. At the conclusion of the narrative oae sentiment only was expressed—a wondering admiration of the cleverness and determination of the revolutionists. I noticed the face of a small girl of 15 who was present. Her eyes literally flamed with agitation and exultation. Such is the atmosphere fwhioh has surrounded the young generation for the last quarter of a century. Should the present state of things continue during the next few years, one oan Imagine this young lady playing over again the role of Spiridonova.