The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-19
ANARCHISTS ARE
 ACTIVE IN RUSSIA Revolutionary Bodies Pre- pairing New Campaign SERIES OF MURDERS Important Meeting of Leaders of Rev. olutionary Party Held in Paris
 and Recent Inactivity Is
 Deplored
SERIES OF MURDERS

St. Petersburg, September 18-Accord- ing to police reports the revolutionary bodies are showing signs of recovery from the staggering blow dealt them two years ago by the exposure of the dual role of Eugene Azef, who was once head of the fighting socialists and police spy. The revolutionists are now closing, up their ranks in preparation for . new com paign. officials say.
 Some time ago Russian police agents abroad reported to their government in- dicating that a new outbreak attended with terrorism was impending Recent acts of violence directed against those employed by the government have ap- Fyeared to give s5me substance to these re ports
 The assistant prosecutor of this city, Alexander Skopinsky, was murdered in train on the Simpheropol railroad August by two men, who since have evaded de- tectives. The fact that none of the mur- dered man s property was taken led to the belief that his death was a political act Skopinsky earned the hatred of the rev clutionists in 19o4-7 because of the con- R><'- t, have vowed to take his life. August 12 Paul, the 17-year-old son of Comman- der Kurosh of the cruiser Admiral Ma karoff, was murdered at Oger. The evo of the assassination he received a letter, saying the Riga fighting organization on the demand of the Helsingfors fighting organization of Finland wished to inform him he had been sentenced to death to expiate the blood which his worthless father spilled in Finland.
 The note added to kill the father would be a lesser punishment than the sur- fering otherwise over the death of the son. The father when in command of the cruiser Finn in the Helsingfors road stead in 1so6 did much to suppress the Sveraborg mutiny.
 Other recent acts are the killing of the prison warden. Efimoff, in Vologda, and series of similar murders in Izhed sK Byatka province had Golokhdastov, the assistant prosecutor, wounded in the back August 23 cut with dagger. Two days later an agent of the Okhrana political police. named Artemenko, was killed at Alexandrovsk.
 August 20 an unknown person fired into the bedroom of the assistant chief of the zen d'ermes at Yelizabethpol. Lieutenant Colonel Gamreklidze, but hit his pillow. The same day d band of 40 men attacked the arsenal in the center of the fortress at Kertch apparently to steal rifles, bu, were driven off in a fight in which one of the invaders was killed. The chief of the penal service at Zeremtui was mur- dered September A.
 According to the police a meeting of important leaders of the social revolu- tionary party from Russia was held in Paris this summer when the plan of the new movement was determined. Accord ing to the police the revolutionary lead CTS deplored the lack of workers and the means for furthering their purposes New ertheless small but well organized groups were said to be at work.
 In the rebuilding of the party or ganization the social revolutiOnists are saia by the police to have composed a new statute. They hold to the cleo the right of cooperation in view of the necessity for conspirative work under the present circumstances.
 The question of preparations in the election for the fourth duma was de- cided in the affirmative As the dele gates from Russia, according to the Goios Moskwyuj declared against an im- mediate congress as planned by the foreign members and asserted the lat ter were ignorant of actual conditions in Russia. it was decided to hold an other conference in 1912.
 Delegates from Russia feared the Penascent organization might suffer d shock and bc exposed to provocative methods and demoralization by acts If terrorism The police say the service of two flying attachments executing orders was salutary, The conference disclosed the fact that Azef. who was recortod killed at Weisbaden, had been traced by correspondence, and the death sentence now hangs over him. It is en- trusted to two workers of unimpeach- able faithfulness.