ANARCHY IN MARSEILLES.
At midnight on November 16 an attempt was made to blow up the official residence of General Mathelin, of the 15th Army Corps. The house is surrounded by a high wall into which niches for sentry-boxes are built, though of late, owing to the quiet condition of affairs, no sentries have occupied them. Cases of dynamite were placed in these niches and also one in the hallway of the house and one in the orderly room adjoining the apartment occupied by the general. About midnight a bomb exploded with fearful force, breaking every pane of glass in the house and the one adjoining, and badly damaging a building occupied by a girls' school and the food tax building opposite the girls' residence. The supposition is that the dynamiters expected the first concussion to set off all the other cases. As it was, nobody was hurt. A rigid investigation is in progress, and the police have arrested a party of Anarchists, including ten foreigners.
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Otago Witness, 14 December 1893, Page 18
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