No. 4,000 25 February, 1905
The Russian revolutionaries have begun to fulfil their threat of carrying on their 'war' with the dynasty with the bullet, the knife, and the handgrenade filled with lyddite. Their first victim has been the Grand-Duke Sergius, the uncle of the Czar, and commander of all troops in and around Moscow. On Friday week the GrandDuke was driving just beyond the gate of the Kremlin, either to a bath-house or to a house of his own, when at a sharp turn of the streets his carriage, usually driven at high speed, was checked by a sleigh purposely driven across the road. In the momentary pause a man, whose name is still unknown, dressed as a workman, stepped forward and flung a bomb under the carriage, which in its explosion shattered the Grand-Duke to pieces and mortally wounded his coachman.
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