THE ANARCHISTS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXI, Issue 1043, 20 July 1894, Page 6

THE ANARCHISTS.

Reports of an Anarchist plot to blowup the Chamber of Deputies have alarmed Paris. The special guards have been increased. The Italian Chamber has approved of drastic measures against Anarchists, including the compulsory residence of suspects within an assigned area. The Premier,Signor Crispi, urged that it was necessary to defend society against contagion. An Anarchist plot to destroy the Toulon Arsenal has been frustrated. The Scotland Yard authorities have warned the French police of an Anarchist plot to destroy by dynamite simultaneously the Chamber of Deputies, the Bourse, the Elysee, and Palais of Justice. The Anarchists at Toulon set fire to the hold of tho iron-clad Carnot while that vessel was being launched, but tho sailors succeeded in quenching the flame?. If the plan of the conspirators had succeeded thousands of spectators would have bpen imprisoned between^ the burning vessel and a high wall. A third attempt to burn the arsenal was frustrated. Considerable alarm has been caused in Paris owing to the reports' of plots to kill MM. Casimir-Perier, Dupuy, Bur.neau, and other prominent statesmen, and to demolish the public buildings by means of new bombs of unequalled strength and of the size and shape of oranges. A strong detective force is incessantly on the watch, the police authorities having reason to believe that the Anarchists intend to make an attempt to kidnap Madame Perier, the wife of the new President. The Chamber and Senate are closely guarded, the precautions adopted being similar to those in a citidal during war time. Prior to the arrival of experts, the Paris police supposed that a coffee flask in the possession of an Irish tourist, named Morglass, was an infernal machine. A committee of the Chamber of Deputies has reported that it is essential to entirely suppress the Anarchist propaganda, and that imprisonment is useless, and would only increase the danger. It was only with great difficulty that the burning of the Carnot was averted. The Anarchists had. intended to set fire to the stocks during the progress of the launching and to upset the vessel, by which hundreds of lives would have been lost ; but their design was discovered by the watchman the night before the ceremony. In three days 3000 Anarchists have been arrested in Italy and the prisons are full. A society has been discovered' in Italy which provides funds for the Anarchists by blackmailing people under threat of assassination. 1 •