CZAR’S VISIT TO MOSCOW

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8190, 3 August 1912, Page 9

CZAR’S VISIT TO MOSCOW

POLICE ARREST THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE. In anticipation of the Czar’s visit to Moscow tho police made 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 largo number of detectives and officials, assembßdm, the courtyard of the Prefecture of Police, and two hours later they were despatched in various directions, surrounding the lodging-houses and shelters, and effected what probably constitutes a record “round-up.” For the first time for nine years the Czar, accompanied by the Czarina and the Imperial children, arrived at Moscow. After a splendid reception at tho station, at which the grand dukes and duchesses, ths Ministers, the local anducsesses, the Ministers, the local anminent personages were present, their Imperial Majesties, together with thr Dowager-Empress, who has just returned from Copenhagen, where she attended the funeral of the late King, drove through the gaily-decorated oitv to thp Kremlin, amid th“ pealing of bells and the cheers of the phonic. A specially organised people’s bodyeurrd. <romnosed of merchants, artisans nuisants. and better-class citizens— other ■rise special constables—3o 000 stronc stood behind the troeng along the route cf the procession. Tho young Heir-An narent vi«ited Moscow on this occasion for the first time.