Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-13
The Russian Fighting Group

revolutionists were never surpassed by any
human beings. They do not seem to have
the slightest fear Of death and are utterly
Indifferent to danger. Very few Of the
bomb hrowers have escaped alive. Nearly
all of them have died with their victims.
In only one or two cases have the men or
women who have attempted assassinations
case has the culprit shown anything but a
bold and defiant disposition even to the gal
lows. Several women have been executed
within the last few months. and one Mile.
Leonitieff. niece of Gen. Trepoff. who as
sassinated Frenchman in the dining room
of hotel at Interaken by a mistake for
ex-Mnister Dunurvo has been sent to
prison for life, there being no capital pun
ishment in Switzerland. Some of them were
mere girls but In every case their courage
and self-possession was heroic. No member
Of the fighting group" they call it, of
the social revolutionists in Russia has ever
broken down or even faltered when in the
presence of death.
Most of the active terrorists are Jews, a
majority of them Polish Jews and they are
usually students from the humber classes
of the population. When a desperate deed
is to be committed it Is always assigned to
a Jew. although the selection is usually
made by lot in the group to which the duty
has been intrusted The circumstance is
due to the fact that four-fifths of the men,
bers of those organizations belong to that
race. and also to the fact that they can be
depended upon for nerve, courage and
shewdness more than any other inhabit-
ants of Russia. You noticed from the news
paper dispatches that the recent robbery
of the government treasure-wagon of $780,
600 in the rear of the Kazan Cathedral, In
the business center. in the city of st.
Petersburg. was committed by a group of
Jews. 1t was the most sensational pro-
ceeding that has occurred in Russia, ex-
cept the seizure of battleship in the Black
sea by mutineers under the leadership of a
Jew named Schmidt.
There are several factions of the social
revolutionary party, the most important of
which is the Jewish bund having It's head
quarters at Bialstok. where the massacre
effective faction Is called the Maximalists
or the followers of Maxim, a Polish Jew
who led the revolution in the Baltic states
last spring and has been making lecture
tour in the United States during the recent
summer and autumn. From these two Or
CARNATIONS the government has suffered
more than from any other.
Many Of the members of the social revo-
lutionary party are genuine patriots; many
others are fanatics. but the rank and file is
composed Of ignorant people. whose suffer-
ings under oppression have made them the
enemies of the government.
Temple Overthrow by Samson.
Mr.. Stewart Macallister, who has been
excavating in southern Palestine under the
direction Of the Palestine exploration fund.
is confident that he has discovered the ruins
Of the temple which Samson overthrow. In
the vicinity Of the modern city of Gezer
which Is the GAIA Of the Bible, he has been
making extensive excavations and has
found strata Of cities, one Of them built on
the ruins of another. In the course of a
thousand years or so tho crumbling walls
and masses of rubbish have not only buried
the ruins Of buildings, but have brought
the surface Of the earth up to level upon
which the foundations Of more modern
cities have since been laid. Under the
ruins OF an old city on the. outskirts of
Gezer Macallister found ruins of various
ages extending from 200 to 5000 B. c., and
among them the fragments OF q temple with
stone columns. upon which It formerly rest
ed. This temple had 1--WE or six gates.
which had been supported by columns
erected about 1850 B. c., and from various
Indications Mr. Macallister believes that II
IL the temple OF Dagon described IN Judges
xU:21-30. where Samson committed suicide
He has found many other interesting OBJ