The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-12
STRANGE STEAMER
 IN FINNISH WATERS
LOADED WITH OARBINES ANB MUNITIONS OF WAR, SUNK
 ON DISCOVERY.

Many Rifles and Cartridges Saved by
 Fishermen-Discoyer Made by Cus-
 toms Officials Proves Revelation to
 Russian Government, Indicating or
 ganiEed Military Uprising-yesael
 Was Sailing Under American Flag
 Bomb Throwers Again Active.
 Helsingfors. Finland, Sept. 11-Cus- toms officials discovered on Saturday a store containing 66O carbines of swe- dish manufacture, with bayonets and 12O cartridges, on a barren island in the Gulf of Bothnia near Kerni.
 On Sunday morning boat belonging to the customs service discovered three-hundred-ton steamer near KaH- skaer rock, twenty miles outside Ja- kobstad. The captain and members of the crew, who spoke in English, de- clared that the steamer was fully load ed with rifles and cartridges, and there upon the customs officials ordered the captain to take his vessel into port and discharge It's cargo.
 The steamer proceeded towards the shore, the customs boat going in the meanwhile toward a nearby island, Suddenly several explosions were heard from the steamer, and the customs off, cers, on returning, found the vessel sinking and her crew in lfeboats dis- appearing hurriedly towards the south. The officers impressed into service \. number of fishermen, who unloaded l most of the rifles and ammunition on the beach
 The steamer grounded in shoaI wa ter. Her name was painted over. only the letters John Bash Fton' being visible. American and German faes were found on board the vessel,
 Tavastehus, Finland, Sept. 11,-Whsle the governor was driving to-day wffh the chief of police an internal machine was thrown at the carriage, but it fail- ed to explode.
 St. Petersburg. Sept, 12.--S:4S q, ra~ The news from Finland of the acoi- dental discovery of the importation nf rifles and munitions in large uuantities. is the most serious disclosure regard < Ing the revolutionary movement in Russia that has yet been made, as Sit: indiea taE an Intention to foryn ssasrssl x military organization, The in nISseuteS ton of revolyers to Finland Pola5Id and the Baltic provinces and other 9is- trlcts of Russia has been an open secret for long time. In fact the i1ai- tlated have found little difficulty in purchasing repeating pistols of a small type in St. Petersburg itself, but these are pocket weapons intended only for use in street rioting and in attacks on the police The importation of small calibre repeating rofies and carbines of l modern type, however, presupposes a design to organize formal resistance to ] the troops, and the presence of bayo- nets in the consignment strengthens this supposition. M No information can be obtained here concerning the identity Of the filibuster- ing steamer which according to one dispatch from Helsingfors, is supposed l to have been cruising under the Amer ican flag, though this probably was used as a mask.
 It is considered here that the active l faction of the Young Feilonian party of Finland is probably involved in the con spiracy, and 1t is recalled that the in- vestigation into the assassination of General Bogrikoff, governor general of l Finland In June of last year, disclosed 1 the existence of a society formed for the purpose of importing arms.