New-York tribune., 1892-01-01
A NIIILIST PLOT UNEARTHED IN PARIS.
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY THE CHAM
BET OF DEPUTIES AND THE RUSSIAN
EMBASSY-NANY ARRESTS MADE.

EMBASSY-NANY ARRESTS MADE.
Paris. Dec. 3I.-since the establishment Of the
verbal entente between France and Russia, the French
authorities have been particularly vglant in ferret
Ing out the plots OF Nhillsts against the Car. Two
or three such cOnspracies have been discovered. All
the persons who were convicted Of participation I'm
these undertakings severely dealt with, and Of
late nothing has been heard Of Nihllist plots in
france.
The people Of France startled today. how
ever BY rumor published in the SoeilT and other
newspapers, that an extensive plot had been discov-
covered in the Russian colony having for Its object
the destruction BY dynamite Of the building In which
the Chamber Of Deputies meets and also the building
occupied BY the Russian Embassy. knowledge Of the
plot came TO the police, and an investigation i'm
mediaely set on foot. The must have had
some basis in truth for many OF the Russian refugees
Ia fors and the suburbs have been taken into Gus
tody Several Of the houses occupied by the suspected
men have been searched by the police and 1t is re-
ported that many discriminating documents were
found.
WcourSe II can easily be understood why the Russian
MhIl,u should de ire TO wreck The Russian Embassy
aod hill il, occupants but it is not 50 clear why they
should wish TO destroy the French Houses of rarlia-
ment 1t is cOn!cctu.ed, however. that the under
sanding existing between The French and Russian
Governments i. dSta>tcfu 10 the Russian refugees.
ana tat they determined 10 take vicariOus vengeance
On the Gar and his Government by blowing up the
fmnch Chamber OF Deputies
Snce the assassination by Padcwsh Of General
usvireskO at the Hotel de Eadc in Paris. the French
Gosernnent has tracgci the Nihsts with even more
snestness than IL had always shown before. II was
tssrc thai, since the time Of Eakounnc and Vera
Sosoulitch, the Russian rcVolutionSts had trans
hcd their hcaGqudrter5 from Geneva TO Paris, where
hey worked il unison with the French Anarchists.
great food Il light thrown the subject by a
tnphIet "Linternatlona!e ct lc Socialismc," re-
sntly published by NJ Eugene Guyon, wclmOwn
psical writer and The director Of La Patric,' an
" Paris paper. In watching the Nhilists the French
Goveinnient not only fulGis what IL considers duty
secrfy. 1t Is probable that the rumor Of the
oospiracy ~ blow up the French Chamber
Deputies may turn out 10 be with
at foundation; though the cable dispatch
Ns that many OF the Russian refugees living I'm Paris
nd the suburbs have been arrested. They NAV have
een Matching some plot to be executed in tie Cars
Umpire like the which caused the arrest In
Paris OF Lavrof, Mendelssohn, Sophia Gunsberg and
ise other persons, Most OF those consplratos were
sentenced TO prison or departed from France.
few months later sophia Gunsbcrg was arrested
While attempting TO cross the Russian frontier with
nue bombs In her possession. IL was said that she
~ tortured 10 death in the Muscovte PRISONS ana the
nSe of the Nihsts in Paris became herccr than ever
AGAINST the French Government which they considered
~ doing too much for all autocrat who would never