SHADOWED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9757, 24 March 1914, Page 6

SHADOWED.

ACROSS THREE CONTINENTS. Eugene Znkoveky, a Russian, who arrived in Sydney by the Ventura on, Monday of last week, bared bis back to a reporter of the Daily Telegraph, pointed to & score of what appeared to be old knife wounds, and remarked bitterly, "Those or« from the knout." Marks to be carried throughout a lifetime for having given his services to the cause of emancipation of R«c«ia'« teeming millions of oppressed and struggling subjects. But that is not all. Zukovsky has, he savfl, been shadowed since the time ho leit Kieff; h:s life has been attempted on two separata occasions; and the man whom he belieVce to have been commissioned to murder him had been seen in Sydney two days previously. Tho police have taken up the matter, and Detectives O'Reilly and Scmtar are, making enquiries. 'lhe information that the police have «o far is that Zukovsky has been a revolutionary since birth. He wae born in Kieff, and when a lad went to Odessa? where he lived until about the time the present Russian Constitution was granted. The occasion was one of the wildest enthusiasm, in hopes, as it were, that the glad news would be carried to the ends of the earth.

It is a matter of history as to what followed. Tlie streets wore cleared lit Cossacks- r.nd dead and dying wore left in tno gutters. Zukovsky arrived at Kieff a few days after things had quietened down. The night following h's return he and six other revolutionaries wore surprised in the act of holding a meeting by a party of secret police and a dozen Cossacks. Shots were fired, four of Zukovsky *6 companion's fell dead, the two others were wounded, and Zukovskv himself, in the excitement and turmoil, managed to crawl under a great coat of one of dead compatriots, and to secrate himself until early morning, when the opportunity presented itself for eecape. Half starved and weak from the loss of blood from a bullet-wound in tho arm, he presented himself to n sentry on the frontier a few days later, and managed by bribery to pass into Germany on an old peasant woman's passport. He went to Bremen and learned from the newspapers that on tho night of the affray an officer of the secret police well known to him had been killed. It is this man's brother who has shadowed Zukovsky ever since. He followed Zukovsky to London, across to New York, and from there to Chicago, where he made an attempt on his life after enticing him by means of a forged letter to a certain place. The Chicago police took up the case, but no trace of Zukovskv's assailant could be found.

Another meeting took'place* in San Francisco, and in an affray Zukovsky was stabl>ed in tho hand. Then he came to Sydney. Two days after arrival Zukovsky's wife saw the man who had dogged her husband for so long f-tanding watching her on the steps of the General Post Office. The Sydney police were acquainted with the facts of the ca*e, and a close watch is now being kept.