BOMB FACTORY RAIDED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2450, 15 March 1909, Page 5

BOMB FACTORY RAIDED.

A HUGE EXPLOSIVE, : Criminal machinations or Russian, revolutionists continue fitfully to manifest themselves, but happily, so far, they have all been discovered, and baffled. The latest success of th& police consists in the discovery of stores of powerful explosives, kept in a bed-room in St. Petersburg by / two youths, a student of the Poly- A technic Institute and the son of a J professor of the same technical school. Seeing themselves shadowed - in the streets, the two conspirators fled, and would have escaped had not a police-officer, guessing something /! was wrong, barred the fugitives’ way, presenting a revolver at the head or Sj one. The run-aways immediately surrendered, admitted the charge, and went calmly to the station. TheSj police found in the room large quan-yg tities of the most powerful explosives % known to science. If an explosion hadoccurred hundreds of lives would pro-/’ bably have been lost. In connection'll with this a number of arrests have been effected. In Baku the largest y bomb on record was found in a of a house facing an open The explosive weighed over SOOlb, and if when taken out of the town to be y destroyed had to be carried by ten j men. It was removed to a quarryysi sunk in a- hole, covered with loam, vi and exploded. The destructive fcree/1 Is described as unprecedented.