Bohemia has been greatly agitated by a crime which may
or may not have a connection with Anarchism. The Omla- dine is a society supposed to be founded by Young Czechs for patriotic purposes ; but really, according to the leader of that party, Dr. Herold, it was established to propagate the doc- trines of the dynamiters. Its founder was a man named Mrva, and Dr. Herold recently denounced him as a police- agent. Two men, members of the Omladina, reading the speech, resolved to kill Mrva, and assassinated him while chatting with him in his rooms. They were arrested, and at once confessed ; and in their confession they state that the object of the Omladina is to seize the property of the rich, and divide it among the poor; that it had discussed and sanc- tioned projects of murder by dynamite, and that it was ex- ceedingly dangerous. The society—eighty members of which are under arrest—is probably not Anarchical, but only Socialist, but the doctrines and conduct of the Anarchists- have imparted to it an imitative touch of ferocity. The police, however, consider the revelations obtained very serious, and all public buildings and leading persons in Prague are watched in a most careful manner, a watch to which race-suspicious- ness probably lends much energy. The Government, perhaps, would not be sorry if extreme Czechism and Anarchism were shown to have a connection.
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