THE ANARCHISTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2097, 3 May 1894, Page 17

THE ANARCHISTS.

London, April 24. Farandi boasted that he would find plenty of successors in the post he filled, and that anaroby would have the upper hand in three years. There was the same hatred of the wealthy everywhere. He also stated that his friends were on the watch for a chance to kill seven policemen who arrested the brethren Farna, alias Farandi, recently expelled from France. Farandi has confessed that he intended to cause an explosion in tbe Stock Exchange in order to kill tbe capitalists. The Aaarchist delegates at the Ha?ue elected Ferandi to the control of operations in England. He was associated with Bourdin, who was killed near. Greenwich, and with the Autonomic Club. April 25. Counsel for the prosecution against Polti, the Anarchist, suppressed documents found ia his possession on the ground that he declined to gratify the man's vanity by making them part of the case. April 2G. Mather, the Anarchist, a friend of Henri, now in custody, has been arrested in Paris. April 27. The police say that (here is no doubt that the Anarchists intended to blow up the Sfcock Exchange. The Home Secretary (Mr Asquith) has

refused Anarchist groups the usual facilities for assembling in Hyde Park on the occasion of the May Day celebrations. PABIS, April 27. It has been ascertained that Fulton, the War Office official who has been placed under arrest, acted as international postman for the Anarchists, and distributed all their correspondence. As the outcome of the arrest of Matha, an Anarchist, an official ia the French War Office, has been arrested on a charge of having explosives and incriminating documents in his possession. April 28. The trial of the Anarchist Henri, who threw a bomb in the Cafe Lazaire, has begun. So far accused has displayed the ntmost effrontery and cynicism, and boasts of his guilt. Evidence was adduced at Henri's trial that prior to the Carmaux explosion he passed two caf 6s because they were not full enough of visitors. He insists that his desire was to kill a large number, and not merely to wound people. April 29. Henri has been sentenced to death. He laughed when his sentence was delivered, and on leaving the dook shouted " Oourage, comrades 1 Long live Anarohy I " The London police raided the offices of a German Anarchist newspaper and seized it while being published. Finelon, clerk in the French War Office, recently arrested, confessed that be acted as a medium of the Anarchists in Paris and London. April 30: Henri, the convicted French Anarchist, refuses to sign a petition for his reprieve, and glories in what he calls his martyrdom. . Brussels, April 22. - A bomb found at the theatre at Liege had its fuse burned down to within an inch of the charge when a fireman extinguished it. April 29. A further dynamite outrage is reported from Liege. A bomb was exploded in the the church of St. Jacques, but fortunately without injuring any persons. The building wa9 damaged. BUDA PESTH, April 24. Three hundred Socialists attaoked the Town Hall at Vasarhely, in Hungary. The j police fired upon the rioters, many of whom were wounded (one fatally), and arrested 60.