Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-27
WORK OF THE TERRORISTS
Has Revived the Specter of a Dictator.
ship.
SEVERE CRITICISM OF PAPERS
Further Details Of the Stolypin Horror
Many Arrests Maidstone
of Saturdays Victims.

ST. PETERSBURG. August 27.-The ope,
campaign against the government which
the social revolutionists inaugurated with
the attempt on the life of Premier Stolypin
Saturday and the assassination Of Gen. Min
yesterday has produced such feeling of
resentment at Peterhof that the specter of
dictatorship has been revived. The gov
forces to fight the terrorists, as the pub
lie press, which might be expected to mani
fest a revision of feeling against the
crime which sacrificed the lives of a score
of innocent persons In the attempt to muir
der man who personally had not given
cause for offense, remains coldly indiffer-
ent.
Indeed. while expressing formal words of
condemnation. the hidden satisfaction at
the fact that the object of the campaign
is to strike terror into the heart of the
government is hardly concealed. Only the
Novoe Vremya and the official Rossia de-
nounce the terrorists as enemies of So
cfety.
The conclusions of the liberal press are
summed up in the charge made by the
Rech that the government alone Is guilty
The police have made hundreds of arrests
since Saturday in an attempt to get their
hands upon the organizer and participants
In what is evidently powerful. far-reach-
ing conspiracy. but thus far they have
been unable to secure the threads necessary
to enable them to unravel the skein. All
that has been definitely established Is that
two of the men who sacrificed their lives
In the attempt on the premier arrived here
August % from Moscow, where the organi-
cation is supposed to have its headquarters.
accompanied by two women. They rented
an apartment on Morskaia street. one of
the women passing the wife of one OF
the men and the other servant. The
coachma2 who was killed was not in the
plot.
Another young man. bearing a passport
showing him to be a student named Dule-
vich of Riga, had arrived several days
previously and was constantly In. communi-
cation with the Moscow conspirators before
the crime. Two OF the men, then wearing
officers uniforms, and the woman passing
as the wife of one of them left Morskaia
street In a public landau Saturday. While
on the way to M. Stolypin's residence the
woman disappeared and Dulevich entered
the carriage. In the meantime the woman
servant also left the house and disappeared.
According to some reports the woman
who passed as the wife of one of the con-
spirators secured admission to M. Stolypin's
residence and was among those killed. The
police are inclined to believe that the woman
who killed Gen. Min was the servant" but
her identification is not positive.
The door porter of the Morsxaia street
house, who should have notified the police
that the men had donned uniforms when.
according to their passports they were not
officers, has been arrested as an accom-
plice.
Prince Nakashidge, who was one OF the
victims of the attempt on NJ Stolypin's life,
was the inventor of an armored automo-
bile which is for use in the warfare against
the revolutionists.
M. Bussel, proprietor of the printing es-
Establishment which was closed after printing
the Viborg manifesto, was another victim of
the explosion. He had gone to M. Stolypin
for the purpose of requesting permission to
reopen his establishment.