THE BLACK HUNDRED.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 45, 16 November 1907, Page 10

THE BLACK HUNDRED.

... . 26. On;r:tho ovo of the departure whence, the other day, of the Grand DukoConstantine Constantihovich,""'wfoo"camo to" inspect the military cadets, his Imperial, Highness was waited ; upon "by "the ''local j -president, vice-president;-and-'other notonoue leaders of tho Black 'Hundred. The deputation was very graciously received. Count Kononvitzia (the president) recapitulated to the Grand DukQ.ithe-'.Btorj'i,qfi a. cerjtftiri Molnikoff, who, ■sonla!sfow.,mpnths. i agp, w,as., seated, to have .boon'. ..kidnap'n'ccl ;and by Jews. ■Mcln'ikofFj-.is'.'a "member' of' th'o.,.Black Hundred. TliW Tnc'lderitwas'Subsequcirtly proved to have been untrue;' and got'nip with the deliberate purposopfvpr.ovoking-.n. "pogrom." The Grand Diiko replied "that the Czar had, at tho tiinfepbeeii fully''informed of the "facts",?tffi ; thei.ca3e. •.'Tho'ance-president of the 1 Black Hundred, theiv;- dplivcrcd n short' and impassioned ...address, >.to, h,is Imperial Highness, _wjfptn .'lre Inimbly; beggc'd to convey to his Ulitjesty thiireitcratfSd'-asßJlrance that every .niepyber...oj i .tjjo.. j O,(lc / ss,n JJlii,on of True Russians was'ready tq'lay,down his life for the Czar and 0 Fatherland. 'Mis. loyalty has for months pasfc"takeiitho"'fofrri''of a scries of outrages 'and 'imirdorsf'The' Grand J)nko Constantino Constantinovicli expressed his great pleasure in rcceiving~tho Black Hundred deputation, gracmusl,v_ promised to convoy to the Kinper'or thC|assuralico of tho union's loyal ddvotipli. .''.'".■'.'*,-/. This incident will suffice to show the difficulties witWwhich 'the..' ne#»'Pr(»fgct, General Novitzlvii'hSs tWcoflt'eiut 'in'''h'i's"task of restoring peaco and security to the city; a task the first step to the accomplishment of which is tho suppression of the armed hooligans of the "patriotic" union in question.