, 1904-09-21
Suppressed Russian Horrors.


That Russia is already in a state or
chaos closely bordering on revolution is
believed by many European papers.
The only reason these facts do not
come more fully to the attention of the
outside world is that a brutal system
of repression has been adopted by he
government and all news relating to
the mutterings and uprisings in the en-
pire has been censored and not allowed
to pass the border. The system Of
wholesale lying adopted by the gov
eminent in sending out reports of imag-
mary great Russian victories over the
japanese has been resorted to for the
purpose of influencing its subjects.
Eventually the duped people must learn
the truth, and when they do then it
will dawn on them that they have been
grossly deceived throughout. When that
time it will scarcely be possible
to hold them in check longer.
The truth is. declares the st. James
Gazette, London. that Russia must be,
humanity speaking, on the verge of a
disaster in comparison with which the
French revolution sinks into insignif-
calce." 1t sees too much reason to
credit some extremely sensational sto-
ries which are finding their way into
the London Express, the London Tele-
graph and the London Standard, all
pointing to the existence of a reign of
terror which Nicholas II. seems to sus-
pect far less than does the outside
world. 1.-THE measures of repression
close Il condition of things that goes
far beyond the most gloomy anticipa-
tion," the Standard remarks, and it
feels justified In publishing under all
reserve" but with absolute faith in the
sources of its information, particulars
from which we quote:
There Is a general similarity in the in
te%lligence from all parts concerning the
exceptional activity of the secret police
and the frequent disappearance of per-
sons presumably suspected of implication
in political plots. In Cronstadt, where an
attempt is reported to have been made
to injure the forts, there have also been
executions under the military law. In
Moscow recently an eyewitness reports
that eighty collins under military escort
were taken out of the town at dead of
night by an unfrequented road which
was picketed with soldiers and buried,
presumably IN the woods, where soldiers
had previously been observed maintaining
an inviolable Gordon. There is a nervous
feeling in the very air, and even the most
sober minded are drawing ominous con-
illusions from the significant fact that the
regiments stationed in European Russia
are being retained in their places. and
only the reseryists called up under the
mobilization orders are being forwarded
to the front.
There is no opening for skepticism as to
the symptoms in all quarters of danger
GUS unrest. The marvel would be If Rus
sian society, remaining essentially the
same as in the long and dismal past, were
not to develop in an aggravated form,
under the stress of the conflict in the far
east, the familiar maladies. 1t is nothing
at all new that the Investigations, the ar
rests, the trials-if trials there have been
should ave been conducted in secret
and that the sentence of a tribunal sit
ting in irresponsible seclusion should be
carried out in the silence of the prisons.
But sooner or later the truth becomes
known, and the nation learns with a
shudder the full dimensions and the
shocking details of the r%etribution. No
man or woman can feel himself or herself
safe when the spirit of remorseless pro-
scription is in the air.