Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-07-12
THE MARSEILLAISE
Publishing ola Poem by One Of Rus
sia's journalistic Caused
a Papers ConhScation.
APPEAL TO ARMED REVOLT.
Jews Mt BialystOk Prepare to EmI-
crate to America-ROjestvensky'S
Plea-Agrarlan Law Agreement
Terrible Effects of Famine.

st. Petersburg, July 9.-The Twen'
tieth Century, formerly the Russ, has
published a second poem by M. Am
iteatroff, one of Russia's brilliant
journalist-poets, entitled "The New
Marseillaise." The paper has been
coniscated and probably will be sup
pressed. The verses are dedicated to
Maxim Gorky and are virtually an ap-
peal to armed revolt. The refrain
goes, Rise to your rights, people;
array yourselves under the red bali
ner." The following is translation
Of typical verse:
Seize the headman's axe and pass SEN
tence to slay;
Quit the pillow and grasp the sword and
bludgeon;
The Volga weeps blood for the wrongs
Of the people;
Seek your salvation In mortal combat
with the oppressors.
The censors have seized an anti
Semitic brochure entitled Down with
Amnesty" and the authors have been
held for trial. This brochure is espe'
cially violent against members of the
lower house. 1t calls them fools and
says they have sold themselves to the
Jews.
News received here from Bialystok
Is to the effect that the Jews are IN
such condition Of panic that they are
selling all their property and are pre-
pairing to emigrate to America.
The testimony in the case of Vice
Admiral Rojestvensky, who is being
tried by court-martial for the surren-
der of the destroyer BedoN In the
battle of the Sea of Japan, has been
submitted and the addresses OF coun-
sell probably will be completed Mon
day.
The testimony has brought out de-
tails of the cold-blooded way in which
Captain Baranoff of the Bedovi aban-
doned the crews of the battleships Os-
labia, Kniaz Suvaroff and Alexander
III to death by drowning, refusing to
save a single person. The president
of the court virtually called Captain
Baranoff a coward in open sitting.
Roiestvensky is the only defendant
emerging from the investigation with
any credit. He has submitted the
case, in lieu of pleading by counsel,
In the following words:
"Sirs-Russia's fleet has been hui
inflated the people have confidence
in you; await my punishment"
The first paragraph Of the agrarian
law, viz, the augmentation Of the lands
of the peasants by the appropriation
Of all state and crown domains and
church and monastery lands, has been
accepted by the commission of the
lower house with practical unanimity.
The commissioners have now locked
horns over the mode of appropriation
and the method of disposal Of private
estates, and the end is not yet in
sight.
The determination to appropriate
church lands which in distinction to
the great estates owned by the mon
asteries lie scattered like the lands OF
the common schools in America in
small tracts throughout the country
md support the local clergy, will
,ause complications. Such action
would deprive the parish priests of
he principal part of their scanty
,moluments and necessitate an equiv
llent from some other source.
A correspondent Of the Associated
Press has Just completed tour Of
he provinces Of Samara and Saratov.
he reports that the drought is finally
,roken, but the rains have come too I
ate to save the crop and help the
PEASANTS who are in pitiable condi-
ion. Their cattle have either been
old or are starving in the fields.
The government relief granaries
we're completely emptied during
asst years famine. The pres
mt agrarian disorders which can be 9,
expected to grow worse, are due large s
y to the necessity of the peasants "
eizlng food and forage to preserve a
heir lives and save from starvation n
he remainder of their cattle. These "
disorders have reached the highest q
itch in the province Of vorontzh Il
There the troops and Cossacks al .,
hough in considerable force are prac- y
ically helpless and on the defensive. T
fanny peasants have been killed or +,
rounded In desperate attacks on mill =,
airy patrols and the rural guards. ;,