The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

many fortifieations, and there are great forts at Kronstadt guarding the capital. I passed the latter forts as l came here. They are on an island at the end of the St. Petersburg and Kronstadt canal, and near them are the headquarters of the Russian navy. From this island to the mainland are a number of smaller islands, each with a fort upon It. form ing a string of Notifications rising as it were out of the water. The islands look like mighty floating batteries.
 Within the past few years Russia has been building great forts in Asia. I was in Eastern Siberia just before the war with China and Japan There were something like fifty thousand men there at that time and enormous Qualifications had been erected about Vladivostock. Port Arthur is now strongly fortified. It is about ten miles from Dalny, the Russian commercial metropolis at the Manchurian end of the Trans-Siberian road and Is the Czar's naval station in the far east. There are forts about the Black Sea and in the Caucasus. so that there is little danger of the empire being surprised.
 The Police and the Army.
 Every one fears the Russian police, and the average tourist who comes here im- agines that spies are always tagging at his heels. As far as I can see neither the police nor the army are anything like so prominent or oficious in St. Peters burg as they~are in Berlin. The German policeman is everywhere. The Russian policeman, provided you have passport and register 1t properly, does not bother you. He is a very decent fellow and minds his own business. He Is more po- lite than the New York policeman and Ind fo ha deed, one might go all over Russia and hardly know that the police exist. I have travelled thousands of miles here at one time or another and have had no trouble, and that at the same time that other Americans imagined they were being per secuted. One correspondent claimed that he was expelled from the country, when I personally know that he left because he was scared to death by the ghosts of his own imagination.
 How Kennan Left Russia.
 At the same time the Government does not extend its hospitality to those they believe ready to islander and vilify 1t. This is the position that George Kennan holds in the eyes of the officials. Every one knows how he has attacked the Rus sians and many here think very unjust ly, Notwithstanding this he came to Russia about two years ago and took up his residence here. He had just gotten settled when a policeman called upon him and informed him that the Government thought he could do Russia most good by leaving 1t. The policeman had an order to this effect and at his direction Mir. Kennan went to his room and re- mained there until arrangements were made for his departure. His meals were | served in his rooms. He was allowed to write letters and his friends were per- mitted to call upon him, but further than this he was a prisoner. He was sent away within a few days
 The Police of St. Petersburg. The police corps of the Russian capital numbers about two thousand men. l don't know the number required for the Greater New York but I venture 1t is lsdouble 2,00O The city is divided up into l forty-two police districts. each of which has its police station and police court A record Is kept of every citizen and the l police can tell in moment the history l and standing of every man I am told that these records are kept on papers of | different colors. Blue, for instance, may | mean "a political suspect" yellow may mean ''criminally dangerous and white ''emsnently respectable and a friend of the Government" don't say that these are the colors, but there is no doubt that | the Government keeps lists of the names of men dangerous to 1t, and that such lists are sent to the agents of Russia all over the world.
 Police Spies.
 The 2.0Oo policemen of St. Petersburg dress in uniform, and are hence easily | known There are thousands more in the secret service who dress in citizens clothes Indeed. it is said that every house In the city has it's police agent, and that the janitors of the various flats give monthly reports on their tenants.