The San Francisco call., 1906-04-01

State of Anarchy Is
Prevailing in.
Country.
Assassination Now
Common: in the
Land.
Women Give Aid to.
Men IN the
Fight.
Desperate Battle Con
fronts the
Gar.
!: Special Gable TO The Cali.

CRcSidt OSSttS ~ ~..Ae ~~i'
WARSAW, Poland, March 31.-Newhere
throughout the length and breadth of the
Cars empire, has terrorism reached such
d pitch as in Russian Poland, where hui
man life is no longer safe, where ruffians
and hooligans have gained the upper hand
| of the quiet citizen, and where financial
ruin, the sure consequence of anarchism,
| now threatens even the richest: inhabi-
| tants. =:
In. Poland, bomb throwing is of daily oc-
currence; policemen are assassinated at
least five times in a week, in broad day
| light and in crowded streets. In Poland,
manufacturers and other labor employers
are forced to accede to their mems ex-
traYagant demands by crowds of armed
ruffians whom the men call to their aid
at every crisis. If an employer declines
to be bullied, he is killed by some mystic
rious bullet, shot from nobody knows
where. II he closes his factory. he must
| flee from the country with all speed,
otherwise assassination Is sure to over
take him. In word, Poland today repre-
sents such a picture of terrorism as the
world has not: seen since the horrors Of
the French revolution over a hundred
years ago.
| The perpetrators of these crimes. the
makers of all this trouble, are the Social
lStS ana III GOldHQ at ledSLs LildL pOIllOa
of. the Jewish Socialists commonly known
as the Bund. 1t is the Bund which die
tates ridiculous terms to. the manufac-
turer and teaches the workingman to
strike. 1t is the Bund which signs the
policemen's death sentences and fires the
shots which kill the manufacturers; 1t is
the Bunds which arms the masses, OBJ
tains dynamite. and hurls the deadly
bombs which spread destruction around
them and make so many innocent vic
time.
GRAUMAN THE LEADER.
Probably no member of the Band has
manufactured so many bombs as Grau-
man. He was the. terror of all quiet citi-
zens in Warsaw. for he first organized
the armed groups which enter private
houses and demand large sums Of money
from the frightened inhabitants. If the
Bund committee wanted bombs, sGrauman'
coiild. always supply them in. sizes vary
ing from an ordinary sardine box to that
of a ten-pound biscuit tin. He .bafied the
police for a long time.
:. Just after the New Year a patrol near
~ ran him to earth by following three
suspicious looking Jews into his house.
They were arrested and the whole house
was searched, but though the gendarmes
found over eighty bombs, several thou
sands of bullets and twenty pounds of
dynamite Grammar was nowhere to be
seen. 1t was not tilf a week later that
he was arrested in the Jewish quarter
and pointed out as the famous Grammar
by. a spy: lie is now in the Warsaw
citadel awaiting the fate of eleven of
his accomplices who have been shot with
out a trial and buried within the pre-
cincts of the fortress. The authorities
hope to be able to force him to reveal the
secrets of his party and place the whole
army of "bombers they are popular
ly called-in theif power.
BOLD SYSTEM OF THEFT.
The question will naturally be asked,
Where does the Bund get its bombs. and
how does it manage to obtain so many
firearms? The materials for the bombs
are generally stolen, as. apart from the
cost of buying them, It would not be
possible to apply for dynamite without
arousing the suspicious of the authorities
The manner of stealing is most daring.
Tho men at work in the Government ar
senals and powder magazines wear dis
tinctfve uniferms-those employed in the
offices having. different ones from the so
called fajerwerkery or artilleryinen, who
manipulate the explosives The Bun
dists buy up these old uniforms and forge
passports suitable to. the part those who
steal the explosives will need to play.
This passport department is a very i'm
portant section of the Bund committee,
and is composed of men and women ex-
perts, who practically spend their lives
in copying. the signatures of Russian
military and civil officials. And they
reach such state of perfection that
passports-the blanks for which are stol-
en- from the Government offices-signed
by them pass the scrutiny not of the
frontier gendarme alone but of the very
men whose signatures are forged.
Once the uniforms and passports are
obtained, the Bund's executive committee
appoints a member whom 1t can trust to
do the work coolly to go to one of the
arsenals and enter the office as a clerk
from another powder magazine. on pre-
text of some business, which naturally
varies as circumstances may dictate
Enough that after visiting the Office a
few DAYS in succession. he knows where
the keys. seals and "safe-conduct" to
the powder magazine are to be found.
Whereupon these articles mysteriously
disappear from their ordinary places; but
before the indolent Government clerks
have realized the loss, the Bund has
finished its job
As soon as the keys. seals and safe
conducts have been obtained the Bundist
disguised as a clerk has finished his part
and the rest of the work is done by two
other accomplfces, dressed as .firework-
ers'' They drive an innocent-looking
cart, such as the Government uses for
conveying ammunition. and explosives