Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-13
hUoolAN SflEA
THEY ARE EVER AT THE ELBOW
OF STUDENTS IN GERMANY.

Furnished by the Government Wild, Money,
They Manage to Get Almost Everywhere
The Students Get Tastes of siaeria for
Very Small onenses.
Al Russian students at the German uni
veisities are carefully watched by the spies
Of the car. These spies receive liberal sala-
ries from the Russian government in order
that they may pet be debarred by lack OF
money from associating with young Russian
nohlemen They mingle as Eluch as possible
With al Foreign university students. They
register generally, as do the majority Of their
countrYnen, in the department of law. They
attend all the drinking bouts to which they
can get invitations, and note with care wha,
their countrymen say about politics and the
government Of the car. They play billiards
ard drink coffee in the same cafes with the
other Russian students. They make many
arquairstances in the university, as they spend
their government funds literally and their
read mission is unsuspected by their fellow
Students.
THE WALLS HAVE EARS.
llhey have considerable difficulty, however,
IN gaining admission 10 the exclusive social
cIsrlo Of their cuuntrymen The Russian spy
lspSually Of humble birth and name
Most Of the other Russians az his university
pe nobleinen of tho most stiff necked ana
conservative type. As they are all wealthy
and Tree with their money, they are not &c
hcceSih.o 70 "A display Of wealth as the or.
q al mi
my n exceptional cases is the spy able to
olg hs'way into this noble circle.
Usually he picks up his information as b
thepolitics and political connections Of his
fellow eountryMen from unwilling Germul.
So-hetweens. And even these crumbs Of
Aearsay are secured only with considerable
pains. for all Russian students at German
universities know there is a spy among them
though his identity is unknown. They often
Say, even when such abstract political sub
lects as constitutional liberty are broachctl to
then in public places; "N-a-a-a, my friend.
out the walls have cars
But like most Jolly good students at Ger
man universities, the Russians often take q
drop too much in public beer cellars. and
then the spy gets a chance to earn his WAGES
tn a social way the young Russian nohlenlal,
g an incorporating aristocrat. IN politics.
especially after hc has passed year Or two
abroad he is full Of radicalisn. This latent
'adicalism is just what is apt to get him into
peck Of trouble when he becomes f.aIq.slals
over bis wine. The omnipreseut SPY over
hears the young noblemans expression Of
radical political prejudice, reports il to head.
quarters az st. Petersburg, whence it is com.
lunicated to officials on the Russo-Cermnu |
border, and when the imprudent young noblo- |
nan starts home with his brand now Ih. D. |
and foreign airs he is snapped up on the
border by government officers, who escort |
aim TO ST. Petersburg. His fate then do |
ponds, Of course, upon tho cnormity Of his |
crime II he called the car a .ineuI sackn
he is liable to a dose Of Siberia. Smaller
cfonses, like complaints Of tho absolutisn, Of /
The Petersburg court, are punished with a |
year or two in Siberia.
A SPECIMEN CASE.
or course the ono important remark il |
question is not always tho excuse for this |
punishment. The spy can generally get to. |
gethor good lot of moro or less relevant |
evidence at his university to prove that the |
young Russian nobleman was not a ROYAL
Russian or was guilty Of general cnssed-
ness
In 1881 young Herr Micalowski, Of Mos
cow studied Jurisprudence in Leipsic. One
evening In the Boersen-keller restaurant be
and his friends discussed the last financial
crisis through which the Russian government
had passed YOUNG Micalowski said: .'The
whole concern that is, the Russian govern
nenb would so the devil shortly if the fnan.
sial methods weren't reformed Eighteen
months later, as no crossed the Russian Dor.
Ter on his way home, an official quoted TO
aim the above derogatory remark concern
ne the Russian government, adding: You
aid it in the Leipsic Boersen-keller on Nov
Q ISL" Young Micalowski eventually GOT
short sentence for Siberia.
Loss than three years ago a Russian SPY
OF very drunk at a students kneipe in Jena !
nd confessed his business He was thrown
ut of the room by the students and twodavs ,
lter was driven out Of the town. Generally.
owever, the spies do their work quietly and ,
and Russian student Of liberal {
oiitical tendencies must keep his mouth
retty tight shut IL he wishes to escape a win.
n or two in Siberia upon his return 70
,ussia. --Leipsic Letter ,