TSAR'S VISIT TO MOSCOW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

TSAR'S VISIT TO MOSCOW.

POLICE ARREST THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE. ~ In anticipation, of the Tsar's visit to Moscow the police mad© a huge raid in the poorer districts of the city, and arrested no fewer than 3000 men and women.

A force of 1000 policemen, with a large number of detectives and officials, assembled in the courtyard of the Prefecture of Police, and two hours later they were despatched in various directions, surrounding the lodging-houses and shelters, arid effected what probably constitutes a record "round-up."

For the first time for nine years the Tsar, accompanied by the Tsaritsa and the Imperial children, arrived at Moscow. After a splendid reception at the station, at which the grand dukes and duchesses, the Ministers, the local authorities, the nobility, and other prominent personages were present, Their Imperial Majesties, together with the Dowager-Empress, who has jnst returned from Copenhagen, where she attended the funeral of the late King, drove through the gaily-decorated city to the Kremlin, amid the pealing of beUa and the cheers of the people. A specially-organised people's bodyguard, composed of merchants, artisans, peasants, and better-class citizens—otherwise special constables- strong, stood behind the troops along the route of the procession. The young Heir-Appa-rent visited Moscow on this occasion for the first time.