UNHAPPY RUSSIA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 59, 24 October 1911, Page 6

UNHAPPY RUSSIA.

THE KIEFE ASSASSINATION The, “Novoe Vreniya” dec!arcs that a full exposure of the scandalous intrigues of high Government officials which led to M.-Stolypin’s assassination has been forbidden for patriotic reasons. ' It is stated that General TrepofPs promptness in throwing a cordon around the theatre alone prevented dogroff, the assassin, from escaping. Cologcl Kuliabako strenuously, but unsuccessfully, endeavoured to have HogrofF lodged in tlie secret police headquarters instead of in the fortress. Had General Trepoff yielded to his subordinate few details of tlie crime, so it is said, would ever have become known. Some highly sensational disclosures are expected to be made in connection with the whole business. M. Verigin, Vice-director of the Police Department, is under a strong suspicion, and there is a feeling that, in a measure ho was responsible for the tragedy. J lie arrangements made to secure the safety of the Tsar and his Ministers in Kioff seen! to have been tlie cause of a good deal of departmental discord. General Trepoff demanded to he allowed to supervise the precautionary measures that were being adopted, but was overridden by tlie director of the department, General Kurjoff. General Trepoff at once tendered Ins resignation, which, however, was tot accepted. V His chief, Colonel Ve'ipin, and other officers then organised plans for the protection of the Preyed party, the cost of which was not less than £20,000. It is considered incomprehensible how a subordinate like Colonel Verigin dared to disregard M. Stolypiri’s circular boncerniiig suspects, and to allow Bogroll to follow the Premier without setting someone to watch him. Verigin was Kurloff’s right hand man, and maintained close relations n itli his chief’s family. It has leaked out that Kurloff, against M. Stolypin’s determined opposition, married the divorced wife of a young adjutil lit.

11ig Premier regarded the match as a'groat scandal and tried liard to prevent the marriage, hut General KurloA s friends at Court proved too many for M. Stolypin. Bogroff had a large number of accomplices, many of whom have been arrested in different pails of Russia. the parents of the assassin escapocl to Berlin, hut other relatives were arrested in Baku and Odessa. Among the domiciliary visits made by the police in St. Petersburg was one to the rooms occupied bv the correspondent of a London paper, where they expected to ibid a notorious terrorist of the name of -Hermann, who is suspected of having had some-rl-.ing to do with the assassination. ihe newspaper man's apartments were thoroughly ransacked, but without any trace of the suspect being discovered. A REIGN OF TERROR. WHOLESALE ASSASSI NATIONS. Whether the late M. Stolypin was killed as the result oi a genuine revolutionary plot or at the instance of Government officials who hated his policy, it is a certainty that the Terrorists have broken out again. It is declared t hat the fate of the Premier by no means represents the first tragedy of the kind that has occurred recently, The previous assassinations, however, have been effectually hushed up, but M. Stolypin was too prominent a victim for Ids deathnot to become known. The Government’s idea' is that it will he encouraging revolution if if, allows the news to got abroad that the Terrorists are successfully perpetrating those (Times, hence its policy of suppression. Six weeks ago the Assistant-Pro-secutor was kil{cd, and then followed in rapid succession the murder of the Oeputy-Assistalit-Prosecutor, the Assistant Chief of Police at Kohoff, the 17-year-old son of Captain Kuross, Commander of a Russian cri/ser, the wounding of the Governor of Zereutii ski prison, and the suicir le of M. Saranolf, a high police official. In each case the victim received a letter in which ho was notified that his execution had been decreed by the executive committee of the Social Revolutionary Propaganda. As far as is known, none of those who received these warnings is now living, with

the exception of the Zercutinski prison ollicial, who escaped with -his life only tlil'oii'pii the would-he assassin’s poor aim. M. Sasanoif suicided as soon as lie heard that his late was sealed. Of the revolutionaries to whom these daring crimes were delegated all escaped hut the one who tailed at Zcreutiuski. This man obtained access to ids victim’s oltice hy means ol a visiting card, and shot the governor of the prison in the presence of three armods officers. The latter,of course, instantly seized the would-be murdered, but it was not until after a desperate struggle that ho was secured. The Terrorists were badly disorganis'd some time ago by the discovery that the most prominent one of tlieir number, the notorious Azeff, was nothing more than a police spy. A similar discovery, has been made concerning M. Stolypin’s assassin, Fog-oily but it has had the opposite •effect of creating a panic among officialdom and the ni istocracy, who, as a i .'suit'of t.lio suspicion that high-ly-placed'■‘officials' engineered the Premier’s assassination, now fear not only the Terrorists hut those of their class with whom they are in daily contact.