The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-09-19
REVOLUTIONARY BODIES REcov.
Err FROM THE SEVERE BLOW
Of TWO YEARS AGO.
many ASSASS!NAn0NS
Activity Of Fighting Organization 10
q. Awaited by the Officials and Sewers
Measures viii Be Taksn--Many
Wsll.oroanizsd Groups Are Said to
Be Working Together.

st. Petersburg, Friday, Sept. s.--Ac-
cording to police reports, the revolu-
tionary bodies are showing signs of
recovering from the staggering blow
dealt them two years ago by the ex-
posure of the dual role OF Eugene
Azef, who was at once head of the
lighting socialists and a police spy.
The revolutionists are now the Off
Gals say. closing Up their ranks in
preparation for new campaign.
Some time ago. Russian police
agents abroad reported that new
outbreak attended with terrorism was
."pchoins. Recent acts of violence
nave appeared to give some substance
20 tnese reports. The assistant public
prosecutor OF st. Petersburg, AIexan-
aer Skopinsky. was murdered in a
train on the Simpheropol railroad.
August 2. by two men who since have
evaded detection. The fact that none
or the murdered mans property was
taken led to the belief that his death
was political. Skopinsky earned the
natrcd or the rev0lutionists In 1904 OF
because of the conviction of certain
terrorists who are said to have vowed
to take his life.
Boy Slain.
On August IL the 17-ycar-old son
OF Commander Kurosh of the cruiser
Admiral Makaroff was murdered at
oyer. On the eve of the assassination
ne received a letter saying that the
Riga fighting organization, on the
demand of the Helsingfors fighting
organization. wished to inform him
that he had been sentenced to death.
to expiate the blood which your
worthless father spilled In HeIsing-
fors."
The note added that to kill the faith
er would be a lesser punishment than
the suffering over the death of his
son. The father. when In command
or the cruiser Finn in the Helsing-
Tors roadstead In 1906. did much to
suppress the Sveaborg mutiny.
Other recent acts are the killing Of
Prison Warden Efimmof In Vologda
and series OF similar murders.
On August 20 a band Of 80 men at
>S" '"S atSSuui tuc CeHteT OI
the fortress at Kertch, apparently for
the purpose of stealing rifles, but
were driven off after fight In which
one OF the invaders was killed. The
chief OF the penal settlement at
Zeremtui was murdered September L.
We'll. Organized Groups.
Also. according to the police, meet
ings Of important leaders of the So
cial revolutionary party of Russia
were held In Paris this summer and
the plan OF the new movement was
determined. Reports, It Is asserted,
were read indicating an increase In
revolutionary activity, but dep!oring
the lack OF workers and of means
Nevertheless. small but Well-organ-
lied groups were said to be at work.
In rebuilding party organization, the
so-called revolutionists are said by the
police to have composed new stat
ute. The question OF participation In
the elections for the fourth duma was
decided In the affirmative.
As the delegates from Russia. ac.
cording to the Golos Moskwy. declared
against an immediate campaign as
planned "by the foreign members" and
asserted that the latter were ignorant
OF actual conditions in Russia, 1t was
decided to hold another conference In
1912.