New-York tribune., 1912-08-31
Will Return to Russia in Order
To Be Arrested. When He
Will Be Able to Shed
Light on Police
Methods.
TO VISIT AMERICA FIRST
Members of Douma Predict Affair
Will Have Consequences as Far
Reaching in Gear Dominious
az "Affaire Dreyfus y
Had in France.
Nv Cahle 70 The Trihune.l

~ cable 70 The Tribune
Paris. Aug. 30.-The astounding con-
fession made on August 10 at FRANK
fort by the Russian terrorist and po-
litical police funct!onary, Eugene PHI
lipovicb Azeff, the arch traitor whose
double life surpasses the widest imagl-
nation of sensational melodrama mon
gers, is causing a thrill OF emotion
, throughout Russia, where these revela-
tions concerning tho political police
system are creating q scandal in COM
parison with which the New York CITY
police disclosures are as Dread-ahu-
milk porridge to yitriol.
Azeff on the date mentioned con-
fessed 70 having organized the assassi-
nation of the Grand Duke SergiEs and
OF the Minister OF the Interior. NJ. Won
Plehve. and 10 having betrayed hun
drsds Of his comrades 10 slaughter for
these and other murders in which tney
had In some cases some slight connec-
tion as subordinate accessories and IN
some cases no connection at all.
Members Of the Russian Douma now
in Paris predict that this Azeff business
will have consequences as far reaching
IN Russia as the "affaire Dreyfus" had
In France.
/ Vladimir Lumwitz Bourtzeff, Rus
sian. revolutionary leader. whose re-
! lentless and fearless charges incrimi-
mating Azeff and the whole Russian po-
liticaI police system are analogous TO
the famous accusations of Emile Zola
In the Dreyfus case, lives liz seelusion
IN a remote southern suburb Of Paris.
Bourtzeffs Paris Home.
Near the Boulevard Port ROYAL. IN
modest and carpetless fiat, between an
undertaker's shop and an old clothes
dealer. to-day found Bourtzeff, whose
keen scented sleuthhound patriotism
ran Azeff to earth. Bourtzen is an
alert. gray-eyed philosopher and jour
nalist. bearing striking personal re-
semblance TO the late Marquis Of Duff
ferin.
Bourtzefr told your correspondent
that he intended shortly 10 revisit the
United states, after which he Is deter
mined 70 return to his native country,
where he will doubtless be arrested by
the Russian political police. His trial
under the searchlight Of the liberal
public opinion Of Russia will, he pre-
diets. cause a revolution OF the In
famous police system OF that country.
This determination on the part ot
Bourtzeff is regarded by his country.
men as an act OF great patriotic courage
and heroism. In the course OF our con-
versation to-day Bourtzeff made the
following important statement:
This Azeff affair is the beginning of
a great popular war OF indignation
against the terrorism OF the Russian
political police. the 'okrana, that is rot
ting every fibre OF the social structure
of the nation. do not retract one iota
Of the accusations that for four years
have formulated against the Russian
government on the contrary my In
torview with Azeff at Frankfort on Au-
victlon in regard TO the moral and
political danger TO my country eaused
by its abcminabe political police sys-
TEN, the countless swarms OF anony-
NOUS and secret agents Of which
throughout the land are a blight OH the
daily lie of the people, rendering exist
ence intolerable.
okrana's Secret Activities.
The criminal and atrocious acts OF
the agents provocateurs or secret In
stigation detectives. OF the Okrana are
! cause TO me Of wholesale injustice
and often lead to the condemnation
and ruin OF scores OF innocent men
and women.
In regard TO Azeff himself. am to-
! day more than ever convinced that he
Is the Incarnation OF evil and the arch
criminal, though many believe in his
| sincerity. He lmagines that he can
divide his past career into two distinct
parts, namely. his doings as a terrorist
and his acts as a political police func-
tionary
"One CAN readily judge whether he
was more useful to the political police
or to the party of revolution. The
truth is that Azeff was a traitor to the
police as well as to the revolution. Tho
Russian government pretends that Azeft
was merely an informer or spy. who
rendered enormous service to the po-
litical police.
"AzeH, however, eatesorieaIly con.
fessed to me that he took a leading
part in great number Of assassination
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