THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIII, Issue 13715, 4 April 1905, Page 5

THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA.

A REVOLUTIONARY PLOT. THE UNIVERSITIES. THE CZAR'S COMPACT WITH FINLAND. United Press Association —By E'.ectrio Telegraph—Copyright. ST PETERSBURG, April 2. Tho police, noticing two sleighdrivers and a messenger on a bicycle, frequently following officials’ carriages, arrested them, and twelve revolutionaries in St Petersburg. They also discovered a bomb laboratory, and papers were seized showing a plot that had been hatched in Switzerland. The Council of Ministers at St Petersburg has postponed the opening of the universities till the autumn, and in tho event of disturbances upon the resumption it intends to expel the students, dismiss the professors, and introduce a new system. It is officially reported that the Czar has re-established the irremovability of tho Finland judges. Recruiting of soldiers in Finland has been suspended. THE DISORDER AT WARSAW. A PROCESSION FIRED ON. (Received April 3, 9.20 p.xn.) ST PETERSBURG, April 3. A thousand persons, mostly Jewish Socialists, holding a procession in Warsaw, headed by a red flag, with a view to conducting a memorial meeting for their late leader, met twenty soldiers and police patrolling the streets. According to the police the Socialists fired revolvers at the patrol, the leaders inciting tho mob to attack. Several volleys were fired into tho crowd. Four Jews wore killed, and forty Jews were wounded, including two women. Many arrests have been made. ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A POLICE OFFICIAL, ST PETERSBURG, April 3. M. Sambolourez, police commissary at Lodz, was waylaid and terribly injured by a bomb, in revenge for killing a Socialist in the recent disturbances. A policeman standing near wounded tho thrower of the bomb fatally.