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BOMBS THROWN IN WARSAW
Chief Of Police Wounded by Missile
While Driving.
TROUBLE THROUGHOUT RUSSIA


Killed by Internal Machine - As
sailant Of Baron Won Nolken, the
Police Chief, Escapes. .
Warsaw Poland. A bomb was
thrown into the carriage Of Baron von
Nolken, Chief of Police of Warsaw, at
8 O'clock in the evening. The Baron
was severely wounded. =,
According to the latest information
the attack on Baron Won Nolken was
the result Of an elaborate conspiracy
of the revolutionary party.
Shortly before s o'clock an elegantly
dressed man went to the police station
at Praga, a large suburb of Warsaw,
on the other side of the Vistula, and
threw a bomb into a room where the
men were assembled before going on
duty. Six policemen were wounded,
two Of them dangerously, and, all the
furniture as we'll as one wall were de-
stroyed. ,m4
The bomb thrower, in trying to es-
cape. met a policeman and shot twice,
.wounding the officer in the stomach.
The man was caught by the captain
of the station. He was found to be a.
Jew, but his identify was not discoU-
cred. The prisoner himself vas wound
ed and was placed in the hospital.
A telephone message was immediate
ly sent to Baron Won Nolken at the
City Hall, informing him Of the out
rage, Baron Won Nolken, accompanies
by a police official, took a carriage and
started Immediately for Praga.. When
passing The castle where the Governor
General resides a man standing or the
pavement threw a bomb at the car
riage.
Baron Won NoIken, who was sitting
on the side nearest the a%ssailant, re-
ceived the full charge of the bomb,
while his companion escaped uhhurt.
The cabman was thrown from the box
and the carriage was smashed. -" 20.
Baron von Nolken was removed to
the City Hall, and doctors were sum-
moned. They found that he had re-
ceived injuries ON the head, neck, arm
and leg.
Meanwhile the police official accom-;
panying Baron Won Nolken saw the
bomb thrower fleeing and pursued and
caught up with him, but the criminal
proved the stronger and tore himself
away. Another policeman fired twice
after him, without result.
Half an hour later q man was found
dead in Sowia street. He proved to be
a plain clothes policeman who was
seen pursuing Baron yon Nolkeh's as!
sailant. The police believe that the
latter turned. on the policeman ana
shot him dead. ~: g.
A girl who was passing the spot
when the bomb was thrown was
wounded by splinters and had to be
taken to the hospital.
According to the theory Of the police
the revolutionists calculated upon Ba-
ron Won Nolken going to Praga ON
learning Of the explosion Of the bomb
at the station there, and knew he must
pass the castle. that being the only
road by which he could reach the only
bridge across the Vistula. /
The affair has caused great excite.
ment. A popular rumor was to the eff
feet that the revolutionaries adopted
this means to inform the police that
they have more aombs besides those
discovered in the Powonski Cemetery. =
Baron Won Nolken is very unpopular.
He is hated by the masses of the Po-
lish population, who hold him respon-
sible for the ~sanguinary suppression or
the disturbances here. at the end OF
January. He has been here only a.
year, having come from st. Petersburg,
where he was chief Of the mounted di-
vision of the police. ~
A revolutnoiars movement of consid-
cradle proportions Is making itself
manifest in connection, with the, indus
trial disturbances in the region around
Siedice. BielSk, Vlodslavsk, Rodin and
Lukov, south and southeast of War;
Jaw. The country has been flooded
with proclamations of foreign and To-
.al origin calling for a rising in Poland,
and with revolutionary songs and ad-
dresses, the latter demanding the use
Of the Polish language in all the
schools, administrative offices and
courts.
The population is said to be satur-
ated with these tendencies, especially
the members of the Uniat sect. Chill
dren are being kept out of schools.
Troops have been dispatched to the vi
cinity of Kotzk, southeast Of Warsaw.
Disorders have. broken out at Yalta,
In the Crimea. where shops along the
quay and in the bazaar have been pill
LACED.
In a riot at Riga one policeman was
shot dead and two others were badly
wounded.