THE OUTRAGE AT M. STOLYPIN'S.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11717, 28 August 1906, Page 4

THE OUTRAGE AT M. STOLYPIN'S.

Received August 27, 10.30 p.m. St Petersburg, 27. An avenue of trees led to M.Stolypin's two storeyed wooden summer residence, and the reception rooms occupied the ground floor. The^bomb fell during a struggle with servants who refused to admit the perpetrators as the list of visitors had been closed. Revolutionaries had previously warned M. Stolypin of his intended fate, declaring that owing to the maintenance of the death penalty Ministers were only common murderers. The explosion was so terrible that houses on the opposite side of the river were shaken and their windows broken. The dead and injured on being extricated were laid in the villa garden, some fragments of the dead being wrapped in sheets, curtains, and window blinds, and other available coverings. An hour elapsed before an ambulance arrived. A weird search was made by torchlight. The dead included M. Veronin Master of Ceremonies, General Zoamiatin, Prince Makashindge, Captain Fedoreff and a number of guards and servants. The Central Committee of the social revolutionaries has drafted a proclamation stating that hundreds of Government representatives will be killed unlessjits policy is altered.