RUSSIA AT HOME.
SUPPOSED NIHILIST PLOT. TWENTY ARRESTS. Theories of the Police. ST. PETERSBURG, April 20.** With regard to tbe explosion at the Hotel Nord, by which M. Kazanoff was blown to pieces, further developments have now taken place. The police have been conspicuously busy in the matter, and twenty arrests have now been made. It is not stated whether they are, as was supposed, Nihilists, or whether the crime was one of private revenge. (Received 8.20 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, April 20. The victim of tbe Nord Hotel explosion remains unidentified. He was in possession of a forged Russian passport. The police are convinced from the documents they have seized that tbe bombs were intended to be used against the Ministers attending the welcome to the survivors of tbe Varyag and Coreetz, as well as at the unveiling of the monument of Alexander tbe Third at Moscow in the presence of the Czar.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 21 April 1904, Page 5
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