Unrest In Russia.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 41, 18 February 1904, Page 4

Unrest In Russia.

There is no mitigation in the sjmjitoms of serious discontent in the. public liiv 01 liussia (writes the Timi'S correspondent). A number of towns, including Il a ku in the east anil Vitebsk in the west, are in the state known us that of enforced j.rotation, whieU is practically equivalent to martial law. A proposal was recently brought bofort the I<akn municipal council to strengthen the police force by 100 men. The Jews tlvougliout the pale are being constantly intimidated by the police with threats of massacres. Thu approach of the winter, with its prospect uf revolutionary demonstrations, has caiisuKl I lie iiiitlvirities to take various precautionary measures. In KiifT and in otker towns the Governors have issued orders forbidding the assemblage of crowds in the streets. The Governor of Kharkofl has ordered owners and managers of factories and workshops to take special care to prevent the appearance among their workmen of disseminators of dangerous doctrines or of rumours calculated to disturb the public peace. In the event of the appearance of such persons they aro to be carefully watched, information is to be immediately given to the police, a «l the proofs of their dangerous character are to he carefully kept.

Tile Osvobozndenie reprints from an impoi'tant collection of rules for gendainies, wli.ich is issued to no one except members o l' the corps of gendarmes, the regulations in to what is known as secret police supervision. one of the most darkly characteristic features of the Itussian administrative system. This method of supervision is applied to persons of "'doubtful trustworthiness," and police agents are instructed to avoid any possibility of a knowledge of such supervision 011 the part of the persons concerned. Tnes-'e persons am 'divided into two classes) —(a) students who have been expelled for taking part in disturbances within the walls of the Universities; (b) persons who havo returned from administrative punishment and have been freed from open police supervision, as well as t'.ose who have been imprisoned for political cft'encts. The work of supervision is to le carried out by the public police and by the corps of gendarmes., who are instructed not only to keep Tsts of suspected persons," but to collaet information as to their conduct, their occupations, and their social connections, their temporary absences, aad their changes of residence. The normal period of supervision is two years, but expelled students shall cease to bo regarded as suspected persons in the event of their being admitted afresh into an educational establishment, or engaging in some employment, whether public or'private, that shall guarantee their material Interests,