NEWS OF THE-,WEEK.
THE Socialist revolutionaries in Russia have announced that their policy henceforth is one of terrorism. The campaign was begun last Saturday afternoon with an attempt to murder M. Stolypin in his house on Apothecary Island, near St. Petersburg. The Premier was holding a reception, and the rooms were crowded, when a carriage drove up containing four persons, two of them disguised as gendarmes. They entered the anteroom, and, not being on the visiting-list, were pre- vented by the servants from going farther. They attempted to force their way through, and in the souffle a bomb was dropped and exploded. Every one in the anteroom was killed, including three of the murderers, the back was blown from the house, and the whole interior was wrecked. Altogether thirty persons were killed, and some twenty others were seriously wounded. M. Stolypin himself, who was in his inner cabinet receiving guests, was unhurt; but two of his children who were playing on the top balcony were dangerously hurt by the collapse of the floor, one of them, a little girl, having both legs shattered. This dastardly outrage will do nothing to help the cause of reform, and it may incite against the instigators the same kind of fervent hatred with which the Nihilists were once pursued. Other bomb murders reported from elsewhere in Russia show that the campaign has begun in good earnest. If repression is to be the Government policy, the revolutionaries are determined that there shall be some- thing to repress.
