EDITOR ASSASSINATED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2084, 20 May 1907, Page 4

EDITOR ASSASSINATED.

SHOT BY AGENT OF RUSSIAN PEOPLE.

St. Petersburg, April 20.—T0-day i ut ono, ns M. Jollos, ono of tlio editors of tlio Liberal Moscow journal “Russkiya Viodomosti,” was on liis way to - his office ho wns shot (loud . Tlio soono of the shooting was in tlio neighborhood of tlio office of tlio Union of tlio Russian pool' not far from tlio oifico of tlio “1;.. k Hundred” organ, “Vyoclio.” M. Jollos was well known to tlio Russian public ns tlio Berlin correspondent of tlio “Rtisskiya Viedomosti.” It was from his brilliant letters that the present generation rocoivod tlio ■clearest and most abiding improssions of political life in Western Europe. Ho was a prominont member of tlio Constitutional Democratic party; and ono of tlio most lmrd-woi'king and far-sighted members of the first Duma. Ho was a man of firm and; moderate, constitutional views, and opposed to extreme revolutionary tactics. Ho was a general favorito among his associates within and without tlio party. Tlio nows of his murder has awakened a sensation of horror, particularly following as it did on yesterday’s fierce dobato on tlio most tragical features of Russian life. Tlio circumstances of tlio murder give strong ground to believe that it was committed like that of M. Herzonstoin’s, by agonts of the union of the Russian people. Only on Monday M. Purislikovicli, leader of the union, in condemning revolutionary terrorism in the Duma, said it was rediculous to refer to the Ilerzonstein murder as a counter instance, and Kruslievan, another Pogromist, advocated tho abolition of the field courtsmartial in order to give tho people liborty to practice lynch and pogrom law. .

A remarkablo rumour concerning M. Jollos’s murder was circulated yesterday. Tho murder was probably duo to a anti-Semitic motives. M. Jollos is a Jew. He loavos a wife, who for years has been hopelessly ill, and several young children. According to Router, M. Jollos was hit three times. ‘ Two bullets struck him in the mouth and jaw, knocking out three of his teeth, and a third piorced his breast. Tho assassin escaped. Tho sensation created by the murder is all the more intense as the “Russkoe Znamya,” the St. Petersburg organ of the Union of the Russian People, yosterday morning appeared with a black cross at tho head of its columns without any explanation. This is popularly associated with the murder, and the evening journal “Segodya” openly connects the two occurrences. Keen observers regard the whole story as a sign that political passions are becoming more inflamed than ever.