The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-09-29
RUSSIANS BREAK PAROLE
Deserving From the Lena Because
They're Needed az Home,

I1cy re NctCtI Ok TieiN~r
San Francisco. Sept -. - Rcporta
from the Mare Island navy yard show
that Geserllons from the Russian
cruiser Lena are increasing. and tha.
II they continue the parole eNacted b}
the United States viii become a farce.
The men were required 90 take oath
that they would NOT go beyond san
Francisco. nor take service again with
the Russians until after the resent
war was ended. but DO bond was roe
CURED of the officers and there is
nothing 70 hold the men 20 their prom
Use or 90 prevent them from Te-enlist-
ing in the Russian navy. There are
many expert guuners on board th'
Lena. whose services are required a,
home. It is predicted by navy and
federal officials that when the time
comes for the Lena 90 60 into commits.
sion AGAIN it will be found dificult %
scraDe together n sufficient number OF
the original crew TO man the vessel
Deserti0ns from the Lena are being
reported daily, and the federal author
files have received word that the men
are scattering throughout this country.
and several are making endeayOrs 20
return TO Russia.
can't Reach Russian conspirators.
St Petersburg, Sept q - While
some of the features Of the plot which
eliminated in the assassination OF n
Won Plehye. the minister of the in
terror. suH bafe the police. the au-
thOrities profess TO be now perfectly
certain that the conspiracy was hatch
Cd in Geneva by half a dozen Russians.
mostly Jews The authorities know the
names and addresses of the conspira-
.ors. but are unable to take legal action
against them owing TO the failure @.
the laws OF Switzerland to interfere
with political refugees. and therefor
Russian terrorists are az liberty, from
their haven in the Alps, 10 contnu0
the work Of assassination of Russian
ministers so long as they are able %
find emissaries willing to risk their
/ lives. the organizers never venturing
to carry out their own designs. SIX
men who engineered the Plehve plot.
according 10 the result Of the Russian
police investigation, are declared be
yOnd shadow Of doubt 70 have organ
lied the series of political crimes, with
the exception of the murder of NJ. BOD
rikof. the governor general Of Finland,
which began with the assassination
Of NJ. Bogdanovitch, governor OF Ufa.
on Nav 10. 1903. and ended with the
blowing up of Minister Plehve on July
/ % OF this year. Gerchunin, whose plot
resulted in the assassination of Minis
ter of the Interior Sipiaguine, on April
Is. 1902 now turns out to have been
only an emissary OF these Geneva ter
rorists
For the first time the fact is now
revealed that NJ. Plehyes murder had
been preceded by four abortive at
tennis to encompass his death. which
the department Of political police frus-
trated in the nick of time by the arrest
/ of the would.be assassins. who were
quietly imprisoned or banished. Only
one OF these attempts has hitherto be
come public, and that was revealed by
the accidental explosion Of bomb in
the Hotel Gu Nord, in St Petersburg.
Sansoneff and two of his accOmpliees
continue to maintain obstinate silence
regarding the assassination of Minis
ter PIehve, although one of the accom-
pHces has confessed that he threw a
bomb into the canal the morning OF
the assassination Berstein, the Other
accomplice. obeying the injunction OF
the terrorists, refuses TO make any
| statement.