Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-07

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and leaves home apparently for the city
/ every morning attracts little or no at
| tention from his neighbOrS Some OF
them may notice that he is a foreigner,
| ana they see nothing unusual thCn in
the fact that most of his visitors are
foreigners. The local policemen learn
10 pid him good morning genially never
suspecting that the quiet looking man
~ engaged I'm plot 90 overthrow "a
European government and perhaps to
murder an emperor. Indeed. II would
be mono Of the policeman's business 10
Interfere II he did know. So long as the
qulet foreigner broke none Of the laws
OF England
Another advantage which London Of
fers In addition 10 its vastncss is its
Proximity TO tho continent OF Europe
Ihese revolutionary plOtters can make
lying trips 90 their own country with
In a few days when they are warned
that IL Is safe 10 do so or when their
presence is necessary, and they can be-
BACK IN the safety Of London within a.
week. Emissaries from the revolu-
tlonary organizations at home are COM
stantly crossing and recrossing th,
English channel and IL is safe 10 saw
that nearly every boat train which ar
rivcs r. Victoria station bears one or
moro len whose liberty az least If not
their lives. would be forfeit n they fen
into the hands Of the police of their ma
tive countries
Thlre are hundreds Of these unas-
Stunning ulottcrt -eHftared alI ..f T.lH.
don, hbut by far the most interesting
OF them an b. the group OF men which
hass been trying for years to over
throw the czar and 10 establish dem
ocratc government in Russia. For tho
reasons given above. London was So
lected many years ago as the most
suitable headquarters for the Russian
revolutionary movement and pracu-
cally every move OF Importance which
has been made for the last 10 wears
IN the struggle for Russian freedom
has been planned. and in many eases
partially carried out in London. Tho
metropolis OF Great Britain is LOSING
ITS Importance as the center of tbo
Russian revolution since the bonds of
the auiocracy have been somewhat re-
Taxed iu Russia. but an the records
are still Kept In London for safefv's
sake, ana the leading plOttcrs still 0ud
a O healthier place OF residence tban F.
81. PctersburE or Moscow.
THE REAL HEADQUARTERS.
Tho real headquarters Of the Russian /
revolutionary movement. then. for ~ I
last 10 years bias been quiet unas- I
Stunning house Don street OF exactIv /
similar houses lu ono Of London's best /
residential suburbs 10 o. mo a Neetorn 4
suburb. but FOR obvious reasons 10 l
would not bo wise TO particularIze /
further .Tho English police. as 1 have /
said. arc not concerned with plottors I
against foreign governments. but Mo-
Russian secret police have ways Of an
nnylnT persons who come under thDir
iisplcasuc even iu England
This quiet house rs the residence OF
=. ltiron, tWhu ls tho real head Df
.he nghtlng section N tho Russian rev
olutionista Petron rs not the name by
which ne used 10 DO known in Rus
adopted Tor English use ana under
which De- A. very well known 90 shin
lwners aud agents who are not aver.
10 taking "a rather long chance when
ho freight rate offered is proportion
ltoly long
No doubt American newspaper read-
rs have often wondered how the Rus
nan reVOluupniHts managed ID noer..f
themselves of tho arms of precision
shich they have used in AN the recent
'utbreaks and how n was that. when
Finland WAS ready 20 insist on tho
estoruiion ~ her parliament and oth-
ar liberties. every ahlfhOdlcl Flru
vas found to hC in possession ~ a rf0e
md "a supply of first class ammunt-
i0n. Petron could ten Am about ID n
10 would. for he ia tho man Who has
hippod hundreds ~ thousands of rinos
nd r0yulperg aud millions Of rounds ~
ammunition from English ports la hia
elbow revolutlonists IN FINLAND ana
russia. ln fact. most of the revolution
~ supplies FOR Russia arrive Ia thoir
estimation by way Of England. Tho |
cast line Of Finland Is ~ extensive
nd 20 cut ~ by nlcis aud nords that
Ia impossible for the Russian naval