The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-30
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Henry ". Nevinson's impress
sions Of Revolutionary
Scenes.

aIy SceAeS 0urIng tne last year, and
bears evidence of accurate OBSERVE
ton and painstaking effort to explain
q series Of extraordinary events which
has eliminated In the establishment
OF the Douma. 1t is journalism Of the
best order, written with lucidity of
style and with the candor Of an hon
est observer, who has known that he
was toying with the fringe OF a great
subject. Perspective Is lacking for q
comprehensive survey of the revolu-
tionary movement as a whole, and the
author does not attempt to estimate
events In the order Of Importance He
makes the outbreak Of the war with
Japan his startling point, well know
Ing that previously there had been
nthiltst crimes, uprisings of students,
+ outbreaks among peasants, mutinies
among soldiers, zemstvo reform pro-
grammes and other signs that the
masses were feeling their way from
darkness to light. He Is content with
furnishing bare outline of events
since the opening Nof the fatal cam
paign, which was not regarded by the
/ people as their war, but as a badly
managed government affair; and then
he passes rapidly to the industrial and
railway strikes, Father Gapon's leader
ship, the revolutionary press and car
toons, administration in the open
country, the old and new orders in
Moscow, rioting in Kieff and Odessa,
the bloody assize in the Baltic prov
inces, the disorders in Poland and other
scenes witnessed by him in the stir
ring drama of freedom until the as
sembling Of the first Russian parlia-
ment.
One of the best features of this
volumne Is the reproductions of sup
pressed Russian cartoons This has
been done In the startling colors of
the originals In several instances. The
design on the cover, depicting wom-
an with revolver and flag, is taken
from the revolutionary paper "The
Machine Gun" which was suppressed
for printing one of the czar's mani
festioes with the impression OF blood
stained hand stamped upon it and the
superscription Signed and Sealed"
Three Of the colored cartoons are
from "Jupel" or Sulphur" and, while
as lurtd as the title, they are not with
out artistic qualities. One is satiri-
cal Christmas picture entitled "Paci-
ficati0n," with the Kremlin afloat In a
sea Of blood, above which rise the
crosses and pinnacles of Christian tenn
pies, while a sky with sulphurous
clouds Is spanned by bow Of red and
white. Another is positively savage
in its irony-"An Autumn Idyl" with
house walls and pavement smeared
with blood and child's doll as the
sole survivor of massacre; and third,
The New Era" is even more brutal,
with skeleton death, red handed and
enveloped in flame, leaping over the
street barricade where soldiers are
firing upon a mob of workmen. It is
mot strange that cartoons So terrible
as these involved the immediate sup
preston of the illustrated sheet. Per-
haps the most artistic of these colored
cartoons Is one representing the i'm
perial government as hideous YAM
pire bending and gloating over the
body of Russian girl, and kissing II
think she's quiet at last" Pictures
like these illustrated the situation so
broadly that the revolutionary sheets
producing them were suppressed as
soon as copies were seen in the streets
of st. Petersburg Other cartoons In
black and white represent White with
constitutional pipe which he could
not play; Dubasoff as a butcher calling
the death roll in the streets, or the
bells in the church towers ringing out
God with u.s. while above and be-
low them were riflemen where they
could shoot working people on the
pavement. These pictorial summaries
OF the political situation were hawked
about when railway trafic and postal
facilities were suspended and towns