THE CZAR.
A IfILOT OF ASSASSINATION.
TERROR IN MOSCOW. h'SJpBOIAL TO PbKSS ASSOCIATION.] f Received Mav SO. at 10.35 a.m. I ST P TKBSBUiiG, Mat 29, O’iving to the Russian authorities hamssing the Exhibitors and visitors to the Moscow exhibition, some nnjoleasantness with France has been occasioned.
Notwithstanding that every preparation had been made for the Gzar’s visit to the Exhibition, at the l/Hst moment he decided not to leave ‘the Royal Palace, and it is alleged "that the postponement is due to the • discovery of a plot to assassinate him.
[Received May 81, at 5.50 p.m. I ST I ETEEBBUKOv Mat 80.
The Czar and Czarina have arrived at Moscow to attend the 1 French Exhibition, notwithstanding that three days before it opened four large boxes of dynamite had been discovered, and were evidently intended to be used in a plot against the life of the Czar. The Customs Department of the Exhibition allowed the boxes to pass the French and Russian frontiers unopened, as they believed them to. contain exhibits of machinery. It is rumoured that a mine has been discovered, leading from _ the; residence of the Governor of Moscow, across a road along which the Czar would proceed to the Exhibition; also,' that a second mine has been found under a railway line. Extraordinary precautions are being taken against an attempt on His Majesty’s life. Even the triumphal arches have been dismantled in the search for explosives. A feeling of terror exists in Moscow, and the owners of all houses commanding a view of the square where the Czar proposes to review the troops have been ordered to close their windows*
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 9428, 1 June 1891, Page 5
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