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 ASSASSINATED
Head of Russian Secret Police Blown to Atoms By Bomb.-Slayer Arrest ed Before He Could Destroy Him. self.
 PREMIER OF KOREA STABBED
 ON WAY FROM CHURCH. Assassin, An Educated Americanized and Christianized Korean Killed Premier's Body Guard Before Be- ing Apprehended.

ENGLISH STATESMAN SHOT
 WHILE ENTERING THEATRE. Authorities In India Scent Plot to
 Murder English Administrative Of-
 ficers.-Crime Wave Covers Wide
 Latitude.
 In a wave of crime reported from Russia, Korea, ROurnania and India today, three prominent men were kill ed and one wounded.
 At Bucharest, the Roumanian prime minister, Brateano, was shot and seriously wounded.
 At St. Petersburg, Colonel Karpoff, headof the secret police, was blown to pieces with a bomb and his ser want fatally wounded.
 At Seoul. Korea, Nj Wan Yung, Korean premier, was stabbed to death as was his driver.
 At Bombay, India, Arthur M. T. Jackson, administrative head of Ma silk was shot to death in a theatre.
 St. Petersburg, Dec. 22.-CoIonel Karpoff. chief of the St. Petersburg secret police, was blown to pieces at an early hour today by a bomb. His
 
 of Captain Melikoff, at Tiflis, has convinced the authorities that anoth- CT campaign of terror has been i'm augurated.
 The murder of Colonel Karporf was one of the cleverest sassina- ton plots in Russian murder history. The man responsible for the crime is under arrest According to his pass ports he is Michael Vosskressensky and the police are endeavoring to es- ra h ify nd rn complices.
 Vosskressensky recently rented a fat in the .Viberg district Late last night an elderly man. accompanied by one servant called at the fat To the doorkeeper he stated that he was the uncle of the tenant and was shown at once to Vosskressensky's apartments. The latter who was ap- him at the top of the stairs and-sa. moment later there was a fearful ex- plosion- The entire front of the buiId- ing was blown out and the old man was simply blown to pieces while his servant was fatally wounded.
 The noise of the explosion attract ed the police and as they ran to the scene they were met by Vosskressen- sky, who with his clothing torn and blood streaming from a number of decorations on his face and hands, was running away from the demolish- ed building. As the police tried to shoot him he drew an automatic re- volver but before he could use it it was knocked from his hands and he was captured. The police were my stified for a time but finally the ser want, who is fatally injured at the hospital. recovered sufficiently to tell them that the man who had been blown to pieces and whose identity had not been established, was Kar- poff, the deaded head of the secret police.
 There is no question in the minds of the authorities that the Terrorists have started on another campaign of bloodshed. The fact that Vosskres- sensky was able to so delude Karpoff that he trusted himself in his com pany without a guard and accom- panied only by an unarmed servant is believed here to indicate that the Terrorists have secured entrance either into the ranks of the secret po- lice or ofhcialdom as it is pointed out that Karpof would hardly have gone to meet Vosskressensky unless he had thought him harmless and possibly a friend.
 Up to the present time the police have obtained no clue~a as to who df- rected the crime.
 Seoul. Dec. ?2.-It is believed here that the assassination last night of Vi of the cabinet, who was stabbed to death as he entered his carriage, is part of a widespread plot to slay all Japanese officials and all Korean offic- ials who have submitted to the Japan ese domination over the kingdom.
 Premier VI Wan Yung was killed by Li Tsai Ming. an Ame-icanized Christ ian Korean. The premier had been memorial services to the late King Leopold of Belgium. As he left the church and started to mount the step of his carriage Ming seized him from behind and, hugging him tight with one arm. produced a dagger with h's other hand. The premier was stabbed in the right lung and abdo- men. He was carried. mort tslly wounded. to his home. where he died today.
 After stabbing the premier. the as- soucht to stop him. and stabbed him to death.
 The assassin admitted his guilt He is a highly educated man. having was a college student and convert to 
 The police are especially active on the case. believing it part of the same plot which resulted in the death of Marquis Ito who was killed at Sarbfn by a Korean patriot.
 Before being made. premier Vi was min 'ster Of education and was regard ed as one of the most brilliant states men in Korea.
 Vi was bitterly opposed to Jaranese in Korea. but submitted to 1t. When the Japanese influence be- came so great in Korea that the Jap anese were virtually appointing cabi- net member and controlling them. Vi sought to resign. Marquis Ito. how 1 ever. refused to allow him to leave the cabinet. Though he knew Vi was an enemy of Japan he believed he was a valuable member.
 So great was Yi's antipathy to Japan l that he refused to present a petition ! to the Emperor. begging him to allow | Japan to annex Korea.
 Bombay. Dec. 22.-The police are | working today on the theory that the l as sa assination last night of A M T. l administrative head of the | important city of Nasik. who was shot | to death in the lobby of a theatre | here was the direct result of a wide | spread plot to murder English officials |
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