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JUSTIFICATION OF
MILE. SPIRIDONOVA
RUSSIAN GIRLS STORY OF WHY
SHE ASSASSINATED LUZ
HENOFFsKL

Remarkable Recital Painting a Revolt-
ing Picture of the Terrible Re
pressions Practiced by the slPetsv
Tsars' in Distant Provinces OF Russia
Bloody 'Pacification" by Chief Of
Gendarmerie of TambOff, the Girps
Victim-The Violation of Women.
St. Petersburg, April 29.-Correspon-
dence Of The Associated Press.-The
following is the justification made bv
Mile spiridonova, the girl who mur-
dered Luzhenoffski. the chief gendar-
rerie at Tamboff, to the court martial
which sentenced her to be hanged. It
Is in every respect d remarkable story
painting a revolving picture of the ter
rible repressions practiced by the pet
ty tsars" who exercise almost the pow
er of life and death in the far away
provinces Of Russia. 1t Is as follows
Yes, 1 murdered Luzhenoffski and I
desire to explain my deed. / am
member of the social revolutionary par
ty. The discomfort of the people with
the existing regime turned into revolu-
tion, armed resistance to the authori-
ties attacks on official and OF open col
lision with the troops in the streets,
Instead of meeting the needs of the
people the government used guns, bayo-
nets and bullets but they did not sue
ceed. Then they invented the manifes-
to liberty. But the same time they
also invented alleged popular demon-
strations by the organization Of the
black hundred outrages. The manifes-
to was only piece of strategy Cat
this point the procurator attempted to
interrupt Mile Spirdonova, but the
president overruled him and permitted
her to proceed).
And nothing else" she resumed. ssAs
soon as the bureaucracy realized that
the manifesto could be overthrown Ii
planned it's campaign and returned to
the traditional method of depressing
the people which was SO dear to Its
heart, namely, repression. The horrors
Of the reaction were worse than any
thing which had preceded. Over 200
men were murdered under the guise Of
executions, the inteligentisia were
crammed into PRISONS every associa-
tion which opposed the government was
closed, the press was gagged, the pres
was suppressed with machine guns and
the police spies everywhere Informed
upon guilty and innocent alike in their
efforts to paralyze the liberation move
ment. The bureaucracy deliberately
created conditions, which made 1t I'M
| possible for the peoples indignation to
reach the supreme power and the OFF,
oials reports were filled with tranquil
ity, happiness and peace In the sup
preston Of the present disorders the
work of the bureaucracy was especial
ly splendid. 1t should be written in his
tory in golden letters. I won't speak
about the 'pacification' of the peasants
in many Of the provinces. won't even
speak of the whole, Of the province of
Tamboff but will conf1ne myself to the
bloody work Of Luzhenoffsli Villages
which he visited he left looking like
Bulgarian villages after Turkish raids
In the village of Pavlodar ten men
were killed by his orders, Shoherbakoff.
three of the family of zeitseff, Ostrovit-
inoff, Dubrovin, etc. Young Pavel zfet-
self, through the self f-sacrifice OF his
| family, had received a good education
| in the Yekaterinoslav normal school.
He was an honest, clean, enthusiastic
youth. He used to say: 'All of my
learning and knowledge I will bring
back to my village for distribution
among my brothers. He ana his friend
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