The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-04-07
RUSSIA PLANS TO
STRIKE TURKEY
Arrest Of Pretended Assassin
Merely Preliminary to Blood
shed Is Belief.

PARIS, March 22.--Your eorrespon.
dent Is informed by persons in the clos.
egt touch with the plans OF the i'm,
perial inner council that the Gar has
renewed his command for breaking up
the Russian Evolutionary organizations
in foreign countries.
The Cars object is to divert the
world q attention from secret scheme
to prepare a war for revolution in
Armenia next autumn, which will be
the greatest uprising that this distract.
ed province has ever known, and which
will result IN the Russian territorial
aggrandizement along the eastern bor-
der Of the Black Sea. The immediate
outcome OF The imperial orders to the
secret police will be another series of
sinister outragcs against the liberty Of
Russians now being plotted in st. PEI
torsbrg. ',..rg.
90 Campaign Begins.
The campaign began this week when
a man, who The police call Pavlon, was
arrested in Scrvia on the allegation
that he had received instructions to as
sassinate the Gar. The unfortunate
prisoners real name is Alexis Vino
gradoff Bissel. He Is not an anarchist,
but simply a socialist whom the police
are DESTROYS Of getting back to Russia
Following Bissel s arrest the Scrvian
government telegraphed to its minister
here asking him TO trace the existence
Of Pavlof in Fnris, hut although the
official has been very active he has
found nothing, because Pavloff is really
Bissell. The Russian police Immediate
~ assured the Servian authorities that
they were perfectly well aware of the
man g identity, because they have shad-
owed him ever since he came to Paris,
as well as since he left here two weeks
ago. ~la
Charge Unfounded.
Thee Russian revolutionists with
whom l have discussed the case aver
that the charge that Bissel was desig-
mated by anarchists to kill the Gear
is absolutely unfOunded. lie was ar,
rested in MOSCOW in 1906 for printing
pamphlets against the Gar, but after
few weeks imprisonment he escaped
by killing a polieeman.
He was re-arrested and sentenced to
four years at hard labor in Siberia.
After serving three years he again es-
capped and eame to Paris, where, for
the last two years., he has gained 1iv-
ing as am electrieian, keeping entirely
Rloof from Rlssian political affairs.
In Siberia he married a woman who
had also been epndemned for her So.
eralistic activity. These facts received
confirmation from Vladimir Bourtzeff,
the famous revolutionary leader, who,
in discussing the case with me, said;
Bifsell's arrest is a shameful inter
national outrage. II written death
seRtenee against the Gar exists Rus
sian spies slipped the paper in Bissel 8
pocket at the time of his arrest. He is
incapable of O deliberate assassination.
He is 33 years old and Of good family,
his father being retired officer of the
Russian army a....
The Liguc' des Droits de L'Homme
(the League of the Rights of Mem, is
taking up this case. Janres and other
French Socialists. are. joining the Rus
sIan Socialists in every. effort to effect
issell's release. ~ ~
6 He is the victim Of a typical police
conspiracy, said Bourtzeff.
May Aid Armenians.
t'Only few people who are &C.
! quainted with the Cars antiTurltish
plans fear that this species of diver
sion will be likely to continue. Rus.
sia's recent warlike Preparations are
not directed against Germany. The
Armenians have been plotting new re-
bellion ever since the first Balkan wal
became imminent. But, acting under
the advice Of the Gear $ government
they have waited. Russia found it i'm
possible to takeia hand in the Balkan
war because Of Austria's hostility. But
now that the Balkan question is TEN,
porarily settled, she regards the present
tie as propitiOus for aiding the Armen
iRnsl and getting a territorial reward. ,