The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-08
HE PLOTTERS
OF SIBERIA

Siberia is not exempt from the spirit
of INSTRUMENTATION so strongly mani
tested throughout Russia The exiies.
as well as the general population. are
striving TO organize resistance against
| the authorities The number of es-
capes and attempted escapes is fncreas-
ing. Helping hands are extended on
all sides. In England and in other
countries money is collected and sent
to Siberia so as TO facilitate the escape
Of political prisoners.
The jaiIers themselves and the troops
or police are sometimes purposely care
less in the execution of their duties.
That some persons l. authority sympa-
thize with the re"Clutionists = fur
Their demonstrated by the fact that
a recent circular, though headed lab
solutely secret, has nevertheless fallen
into reyolutionist hands. 1t is entitled:
instructions given to the Governor
of the province by his ExcelIency, the
Governor General of the town of r.
kutsk, Count Koutayssoff, in 1902
This document is worded as follows,
and it gives picture of what this high
official himself thinks of the present
situation.
According to the reports concerning
the surveillance of the political exiIes
who have reached the place of their ex-
lie and who are there submitted to
public control, I remark that their fire.
quent escapes and the unauthorized
journeys they make. going even be-
yond Siberia, are due to the lack of
proper watchfulness. The authorities
content themselves with sending official
reports. According to the information
supplied, taking as a basis the reports
Of the Department of Police of Aug. l.
and Sept. IA last, which are numbered |
!, POI and S,205, it is easy to see that the |
exiles have direct relations with the |
evolutionary league. They have TAX |
an an active part in the criminal work |
lone in Siberia by the League commit
ees. The object, therefore, for which |
hese persons were exiled has not been
attained.
'The lack of proper watchfulness is
more particularly evident in the dis
riots of Minusinsk and Atchinsk,
which are within the government At
Cnisseisk not only do the exiles often |
sscape or travel to other places with
Tut being authorized to do so, but it
las been clearly shown that the exiles
lracikoff, DR.. Heycine, Pokrovsky,
and others entertained
irect relations witQ1abor groups.
In order to put an end to the Grim
1al action of the political exiles I rec
all the police agents in the |
Ountry who are under my authority to |
Tatch continually the private life of
ne exiles. For this purpose a police
lust be organized for the surveillance
all places to which exiles are sent.
his police must draw UP daily report
4 each exile according to the accom-
anying formula. Those individuals :
no by their manner of living give rise
} the suspicion that they are acting
II criminal groups should be subject
without warning to examination. |
he commissioner of police of the dis
let should give orders for these ex-
indicating at the same
me their motive. The examination
lould be made frequently.
TT is absolutely necessary to read
lie entire correspondence of the po-
teal exiIes. individuals who are
of bad political intentions
ust not be allowed to live in the
me houses as the exiles, but should
sent away from the exiles quarters.
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