THE ANARCHISTS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1157, 4 May 1894, Page 34

THE ANARCHISTS.

London, April 27. Mr Asquith, Home Secretary, has refused Anarchist groups the usual facilities far assembling in Hyde Park on the occasion of the May Day celebrations. Tho police say there is no doubt the Anarchists intended to blow up tlie Stock Exchange. * -i on London, April 29. The London police raided the offices of a German Anarchist newspaper and seized tho plant while the paper was bemg published. A *1 o*7 Paris, April 27. As an outcome of the arrest of Matlia, the Anarchist, Fenelan, an official m the French War Office, has been arrested on a charge of having explosives and incriminating documents in his possession. . It has been ascertained that this official I acted as .an international postman for tho

Anarchists, and distributed all their correspondence. Paris, April 28. The trial of tho Anarchist Henri, who threw the bomb in the Cafe Lazairo, lias begun. So far tho accused has displayed tho utmost effrontery and cynicism, and boasts of his guilt. i Paris, April 29. Henri has boon sentenced to death. 110 laughed when the sentence was pronounced, and in leaving tho dock shouted «Courage, comrades! Long live Anarchy!” . Evidenco was adduced at tho trial of Henri that prior to the explosion ho passed two cafas becauso they wero not full enough of visitors. Ho insists that tho desire was to kill a large number, not merely to wound the people. Paris, April 29. Fenelon, tho clerk in the War Office, who was recently arrested, has confessed that he acted as medium of the Anarchists in Paris and London. Faris, April 30. Henri, the convicted Anarchist, refuses to sign a petition for his reprieve, and glories in what ho calls his martyrdom. Brussels, April 29. A further dynamite outrago is reported from Liege. A bomb was exploded in tho C liurch of St. Jacques, but fortunately without injuring any persons. Tho building was damaged.