THE ASSASSIN'S TRADE.

North Otago Times, 3 November 1906, Page 2

THE ASSASSIN'S TRADE.

Newspaper correspondents are agreed that Russia is daily becoming less attractive as a place of residence. The bomb business is becoming too brisk, and the bombthrowers make too many mistakes. A revolutionary poster claims that the marked man is " never missed" except when it is intended merely to give him a warning, but that claim is very far from being justified. The assassination of Government officials involves about a dozen harmless folk for every reactionary. " People living here," says the St. Peteisbiitg. correspondent of the Daily News, " have to face the fact that at any moment in the streets, in Government offices, in restaurants or at some wayside station, they may be blown to atoms. At a restaurant much frequented by correspondents of the foreign press it is not an. uncommon thing to sec officers who arc .known to be on the assassin's list, and the keepers of hotels and restaurants are at present thankful when distinguished personages do not intrude their dangerous presence.'' The assassinations, however, are all carefully planned, and a mysterious revolution* ist who lives in Finland is understood to journey abroad at times for the purpose of supervising the .UTaiiecmcnts for important outrages on the spot. Scores of young girls and lads, we arc told, are beled into the revolutionaiy movement, and they are often chosen as toois by tiie leaders because they aie very impressionable. Girls, especially, are inspired by the example of Maria Spiiidonova, who is regarded everywhere now as a romantic heroine and a saint. Cheap editions of her life are sold in thou, bands. The youth of Russia is certainly throwing itself whole-hearted-ly into the^revolution. "Last winter," says the correspondent already quoted, " I was in the Baltic provinces, and went from Riga into the country with two agitators to study their methods. One was 17 and the other 18, and they adressed the peasantry from the pulpit of a country church with burning fervor." The unfortunate part o! the agitation is that though tho leaders have always laid plans for their own escape, the young agitators must be sacrificed as soon as they come under the notice of tho authorities. •

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