RUSSIAN TERRORISTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9115, 15 June 1908, Page 5

RUSSIAN TERRORISTS.

CABLE NEWS.

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VHAT THE CZAR ESCAPED AT REVAL. SCHOOLMISTRESS COMMITS SUICIDE. ST. PETERSBURG, June 12. A schoolmistress belonging to the Government gymnasium at Reval—a former revolutionary, but who had been long since repentant —committed suicide under a train prior to King Edward's arrival, rather than obey orders to commit a terrorist act at the railway station on the Czar's arrival. A fair idea of the condition of affairs in Russia may be gained from the following particulars supplied by the St. Petersburg correspondent of the "Otago Daily Times." The sudden swoop of the Russian police on Russian revolutionists hiding in Finland led (through the seizure of letters and documents) to a series of similar swoops in St. Petersburg on February 20th, 32 revolutionists being seized in their houses or in the street. The police raids began at 10 o'clock in the morning, and were conducted with the utmost skill and caution by plain-clothes men. In some instances* however, resistance was offered, one young man in Vasilly Ostrov shooting two of the secret Dolice who attempted to arrest him, but not wounding them seriously. The arrests were rnadf all over St. Petersburg, the residence of Mr N. V. Myshkoff, a millionaire merchant, but an honest and respectable man who owns fifty steamers on the Volga, was searched and several arrests made. The whole staff of a shop in Xnamensky street were arrested. Even the printing office of the Government newspaper, the "Russia," was visited by the police, and a student called Votsik taken therefrom. At the corner of Gardener's street and Catherine of Prospect the secret police arrested a very well-dressed young woman aged 19. The young lady went very quietly to the police station with a policeman in uniform called Turin, but on reaching the third storey of the house in which the station was located she suddenly drew a revolver from her pocket and twice fired Mint blank at Turin. She missed him, however, whereupon Turin threw himself on her, but just then smu tired the third time,' wounding the policeman in the head. By this time, however, the sound of the firing had brought out all the policemen in trie station, and the girl was immediately disarmed and secured. At 3 p.m. a well-dressed and most re-spectable-looking young man was walking past the Hotel d'Europe in Michael street, accompanied by a handsome young lady in stylish uress, when three members of the secret police stepped forward and ti ied to seize the lady. The latter quickly stepped back, however, and got on the platform of one of the tram, cars which starts from this point for the Islands. The plainclothes men and one oriinary policethe girl, whereupon Jane drew a revolver and fired, but luckily at that moment one of the detectives knocked down her hand, so that the i.ul'et struck in tha snow on the ground. The girl then bolted down the Nevsky Prospect, but was followed and secured. As to the young man, her companion, he told the police that if they attempted to search him he would blow himself, i hem, and the whole police station up. I' was fully an hour before the pi.lice succeeded in tying him so that io could not move, and then they found secured around his waist a peculiar belt of small, oval-shaped bombs, with a novel clockwork arrangement attached. Had the prisoner been able loset this clockwork in motion there would be now a considerable gap in the row of houses on the Nevsky Prospect. On February 21st over 50 more arres-ts were made.