Troubles in Russia
—♦_. — Plot to Steal Royal Infant
Discovered Through Treachery
Press Asrooiatlon.-Copyrieht. St Petersburg, May 2d SINCE the promulgation of the Imperial ukase granting religious freedom to dissenters, twenty-six thousand Greolt Unices, or United Greeks', in-'tho governments of Sieillce ami Lublin, have left the Orthodox for the Koniau Catholic Church.
The authorities aro furious, and have fobiditon tho Polish press to refer to the subject.
lUniatos lire members of tho Greek Church who nevertheless aelcniiwledgo the supremacy of tho Pope ol Rome,]. Kolaieff, the assassinator of the Grand Duke Sergius, showed no contrition. Speaking from the scaffold, he declared it, was a lie to say he had asked for a pardon, and added : "I am glad to die remaining raithful to the tradition of the people's will." A bomb severely injured the Chief of Police at Siedlce. He was seated on the verandah of the club. The thrower escaped. It is reported at Kiefl that a plot was arranged lo kidnap and hold the Czarevitch as a ransom until the fulfilment of the Social Democratic revolutionary programme, but waß discovered owing to treachery. Many of tho domestic suite have been dismissed. A goods (rain, with passenger carriage l ! ;itlached, was derailed near Kharlcotf, and many people were killed or injured.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1335, 25 May 1905, Page 2
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