Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-16
REIGN OF TERROR IN POLAND
Police in Many Cities Attacked with
Bombs and Rsvolvera
OVER A SCORE OF OFFICERS KILLED
Simultaneous Outbreaks I'm Warsaw,
Lods, YaIta, samsre, Ufa, KEW
and Chita-Many Persons
Injured.

/ ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 15.-Acting ap-
parently with a definite plan and at sig
nal, the terrorists and revolutionists today
inaugurated a carnival of murderous at
tacks with bombs and revolvers on the
police and troops in various cities In Po-
land. echoes of which are heard from
Samara, Ufa, Yalta, Kiev and even far
away Chita, where Acting Chief of Police
Gorpinchenko was slain almost on his own
doorsteps- The revolutionists campaign
famed out with especial virulence at War
saw. where over a score were slain IN the
streets and many more were wounded.
Among the killed. according to the latest
| official advices. were two sergeants of po-
| lice. eight patrolmen three gendarmes. five
soldiers. Hebrew merchant and a woman.
The returns are not all in. Policemen and
! soldiers were shot down like rabbits in the
| streets. Their assailants who travelled in
small bands almost all escaped among the
terrorized but sympathetic populace. The
only considerable capture was band Of
ten men who had invaded ,grog shop and
| killed soldier. These were taken by
passing patrol.
Bombs were employed in an attack on the
police station OF the volsk precinct in War
saw. where a sergeant. two patrolnen and
soldier were wounded.
| Bombs Thrown at Lods.
| other. Polish cities out by the terrorists,
were, Iodz, where six soldiers, three patrol
men and the wife of a police captain were
wounded by the explosion of bombs in the
! police station and two soldiers and two
| terrorists killed in the streets, Radon,
where bomb thrown into the police sta
tion killed the wife and child of captain;
vlotslossk, where the chief of police was
slain and Plocm where at a a given signal
the policemen on all the posts were stimuli
taneously attacked and several of them
wounded.
On account of the agrarian disorders
and especially several attacks on post
trains. the railway between Samara and
Zlatoust which already was carrying
guards on all its trains was today placed
under martial law. Two of these attacks
occurred today hear Ufa, revolutionists in
each case tagging a train bursting open
the doors of the NAL cars, with bombs and
riling the registered pouches. The booty
in one case amounted to $4,000; in the
other case the amount is not known.
Guards whip Moman.
Intense popular indignation has been cre-
ated here by the brutal treatment of Mile.
smirnofr. refined young women. at the
hands of the crack Chevalier guards. While
a squadron of these guardsmen was passing
along the Nevski Prospect yesterday Mile.
Smirnoff who was accompanied by an
other young woman, remarked: They are
as gay as II they had captured Port Ar
th,ar."
Pedestrians hearing the remark. repeated
IT, and quite q crowd collected and Joined
in the jeering The commander OF the
cavalrymen suddenly wheeled his squadron
and gave the command to charge with
: drawn whips. The troopers then charged
the crowd. laying about them right and
; left. Mile. Smirnoff and her companion,
: who in the meantime had passed on down
a side street. were pursued They tried to
escape into a doorway, but were caught
Under the direction OF of1cer they
4 were forced &c enter a cab and were driver
! to the guards barracks, where they were
: taken before Colonel Stenbockfermor. The
I latter was disposed to turn Mile. Smirnon
. over to the police, but other officers In
= terfered and the girl finally was taken &c
$ the court yard. whore troopers, in the
4. presence of two officers, administered tc
her twenty-seven lashes with their whips
= The girls clothing was cut as IL by knives
< by the wire thongs of the whips. and she
was horribly lacerated. The papers art
: demanding the trial both OF the oficeri
and men who took part in the AFFAIR
No action by the military authorities ha'
yet been announced.
The Twentieth Century. which printed
another story OF the case today. has beer
conlscated.
American f. Arrested.
Prof George II. Blakeslee of Clark uni
versity. Worcester. Mass, who was accom-
panied by NJ. N. Lubesky, newspape
n man, was arrested near Volokamsk yester
3 day as a suspicious character. although n
z had a certificate Of identity from tn
h American consul general. Mr.. Smith o
. Moscow, and was on the point of beini
A sent to Volokamsk when he was releases
A by order Of the governor general by tn
: request of Consul General Smith, who II
the meantime had been apprised of tn
situation. Prof Blakesiee is one Of a mum
Der of Americans travelling In Russia.