Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-19
A SECRET GOVERNMENT.
Suggestive Communication Received
by Mail at Boston

BOSTON December ia communication
to Russian revolutionist branches in Bos-
ton has been received by mail from Russia,
The document is issued by the authority
of the league of leagues. 1t reads in part:
''Our suspicious of an inner and secret
government superseding that of Count
witte have been confirmed. Witte is being
kept in place by the czar so as to allay the
suspicious of other European powers and
endeavor to blind the public to the actual
conditions existing in the palace. A casa
has just happened that proved the truth oS
our assertions. The governor of Odessa,
Neldgard, who organized the massacres In
that city and province, was dismissed by
witte for the hand he took in the work;
he has been now appointed governor or
Mini Novgorod.
count Wftte on being asked how he
could give a new and even greater and
higher appointment to such notorious vii
lain. replied that the appointment was
made not only without his consent, but
even without his knowledge.
According to our views, the cars abdi-
cation is the only inevitable and desirable
result of the abyss to which he himself has
brought the country. but what then? One
shudders at the horrors of the destruction
to life and property which is already going
on in Russia, under this semblance OF au-
thority by the czar.
What will happen when the semblance
disappears and before any new authority
is established to hold its sway over het-
pire of Russia, God only knows.
The communication relates that In sew
eral of the provinces the cars MANIFESTO
of emancipation was withheld by order OF
the secret government. Had the mamie ieSto
been made public, the letter says wholesale
massacres would have been prevented.
The letter gives what is said to be a con-
crete instance of a plot Matched to kill
certain classes of people at kfen 1t says:
Perhaps the most striking proof of a
preconcerted plan by the authorities to ex-
re all milo elements
fCrdei by the massacres at KleR which
were as horrible In their details as those at
paper Kiefslde Otogolskie. dated November
16 Prof. V. TchagoyetZ published an open
letter TO the abbot of the famous local
Eavarator Monastery, accusing him of hav-
ing issued from the printing works of the
monastery a most inflammatory appeal to
the faithful orthodox to rise in the defense
of the faith and the throne, not sparing
their lives even In the attack against Jews
and constitutionalists.
'srhe appeael was printed in the monas-
terry or September IL and II last, in very
large quantities. Moreover, the publication
bore beneath the official sanction, the
words, Authorized by the censor To this
exposure of the literary campaign of hatred
and fratricide carried out from the holy
precincts of one of the most famous strong
holds OF Russian Christianity we can now
add another and more official exposure,
made by no less than Count Heiden. sent
to Kfeff by Count Witte to investigate the
origin of the black massacres there"
Count Heiden has succeeded in discovering
the secret organizing committee of the
black gang and IN selzing It's correspond
ence and documents.
Plans of the Black Gang.
According to these the attack was to be
made first upon all Jews, and. after their
determination. the massacre of Christian
noiitfcaI suspects was to follow. The list
of the latter had been supplied to the COM
mittee by the local secret police. This
statement is made by the Novaya Shim.
the new organ edited by the poet Minski
and Maxim Gorky.
The letter closes in the following language:
I'VE could multiply endlessly these proofs
of the guilt of the Russian secular and
church authorities in having fomented and
directly and openly instigated animosity be-
tween creed and classes. and organized frat
riclde, In the hope of restoring the old re-
gime but, alas and alack, we have no one
to appeal to for justice to be meted to these
people"
Desperate Fighting in Courland.
MITAU, Province OF Courland Russia
undated, by mail to st. Petersburg, De-
cember ia.-Frightful stories are pouring In
from the interior. where desperate fighting
has occurred between the troops and insur-
gent, Revolving tales are told of the bar
barities practiced on the German landlords
who are more detested by the Let's than
are the Russians.
In A fight near Tukum fourteen dragons
were killed and sixteen wounded. 1t is es,
timated that the insurgents lost three hun
dred men killed.
a squadron OF cavalry was ambushed and
badly cut up near Grossantz. and limpet
into Mitau with Its wounded.
Communication Severed.
NEW YORK. December I0.-The cabi,
companies received notice today that tele
graphic communications with st. Petersburg
have been severed again.