New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-14
BY w. TCHERKESOFF.

London Sept 9.-The English press
has been informed that the British AM
bassador in Petrograd has accepted the
apology OF Russian ultra-reactionary
editor, Bulatsel, for his article IN the
weekly Russian Citizen" which was
full of violent abuse of Great Britain.
In our opinion. too much importance
has been given to an obscure organ OF
the ill-famed Black Hundred, which has
only a very limited circulation. Bulat-
sci, as we'll as his friend and co-worker,
DR.. Dubrovin, and other personages OF
the Black Hundred organization, which
was so active in Stolypin's time, never
were popular, and since the beginning
of the war they have been looked upon
by the Russian nation as an unpatriotic
gang, without influence. Even their
scurrilous organs could not exist but
for subsidies from shady sources.
Among their protectors are the for
mer Minister of Justice, Cheglavitoff,
and the former Minister of War, Suk-
homlinoF, now in prison awaiting trial
for high treason. Only one Duma mem
Der, Markof, the representative of the
Kursk province, is friendly with Bulat-
sci, and Markoff and the province he
sits for are scorned by honest, patriotic
Russians.
Union to Further War.
The Kursk province enjoys the I'M
enviable distinction of being the only
one o. tn sixty provinces Of the empire
who's. privncial councils and towns
have not organized themselves in a
great national union for the further
ance of the war.
The isolation of Kursk becomes the
more glaring when we consider the
achievement of this union Of zemstvos
and towns, whose second anniversary
was celebrated this month. IL was
started at the very beginning Of the
war. and at first only occupied itself
With Red Cross work and the refugee
problem. But, as the war developed,
lis field of activity became wider. This
war;" said one of its proclamations, "is
a national war, war Of the Russian
Motherland" And the Russian nation
enthusiastically responded to the
clarion call.
Now the union possesses fifty ambu-
lance trains, twenty corps of volunteer
workers, forty-seven field hospitals,
enc $500 establishments at the front,
in which 1900 volunteers are employed.
In various parts of the country the
union owns $4,000 beds, 600 for
tuberculosis cases and 4600 for in
fictitious diseases; and many workshops,
which have produced for the army 49,
900 articles of clothing, equipment,
etc, made in conformity with the re-
quirements of the army commanders,
besides 200,000,000 articles for its own
needs.
Determined to Free Russia.
From the remotest north to the
furthest south. from the Pacific coast
70 the Polish battlefclds. the whole Of
Russia with its various nationalities is
united in this great patriotic effort
From all sides the Central Committee
IN Moscow receives expressions OF de-
termination from the people to see this
wa through to the very end so as to
free Russia from German domination.
The expression ito free Russia from
German domination" is not pompous
phrase. but reality. Until the war
IS per cent of the industrial and hnan-
cie. enterprises in Russia were Ger
mar; Germans had penetrated into ad-
ministrative and educational and even