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Show BOLD PLOT TO j LOOT ARSENAL! ! Armenians at Baku Bored ai Tunnel and Nearly Succeeded Suc-ceeded In Their Design Entered Wrong Room and Were Die-covered Die-covered by Soldiers, Out Made Good Their Escape Planned to Steal Reserve Supply of Ball vanak ReglmenL tlaku, Caucasia A daring plot of Armenian revolutionists to rob tht magatlne In the arsenal here guarejuL by tho Sallvansk regltm nl 'ff talnlng over a million rVMP"s tho cntlro reserve supajflpPill the rrglmcnta composing tho garrison hoi been accidentally discovered when the conspirators were already on the very serge of success They liored tunnel 700 feet king tn Ihe direction nl the arsenal It waa one nf Iho most prclontlooa example nf subterranean work In revolutionary annals since Ihe days of tho terrorists ot the eighties From Iho basement of an Armenian houso the revotutlohlala worked their way under several Intervening reel-dence reel-dence at n depth of twenty feet. They constructed a complitely added add-ed lunnel, roofed U wllh plnnka and provided It with electric light and electric elec-tric bells, connected with Ihe stations of Ihe several retolullnnlsla on watch Owing to a slight mleralculallnn Ilia tunnel. In burrowing upwnrd, entered, not tho magailne but an adjoining store loom In Iho arsenal containing uniforms Ilcfore they had tlmo lo rectify their mistake, the revolution-Ists revolution-Ists wcro accidentally dlscoiered by an officer, Iho alarm was given and n cordon of troop was Immediately thrown around the ml Joining houses Hut owing to the length of the tunnel, tho Armenian houso from which tho conspirators slatted, was not auspecP ed and they had anipto tlmo to escape. The entrance of the tunnel was even tually discovered by volunteers, wbu entered It fmm tbe atom room and traced the passage to Ha source. |