Trepoffs New Plan.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7913, 31 August 1905, Page 4

Trepoffs New Plan.

ENORMOUS INCREASE OF THE POLICE FORCE. Though' four months have passed since the Czar, by his rescript to M. Bulygine, promised the convocation of a Russian national assembly, stated a St. Petersburg telegram of recent date, such a reform remains more distant than ever, and the bureaucracy can ilo nothing but increase its severities. The Press is more severely sagged than at any past date in Russian history, while the gaols aro crowed with political prisoners, and the knout and the bullet arc the accepted means of '.'restoring order.' It is at this particular moment that General Trepoff. has planned and obtained the, Czar's consent - to an enormous increase in the Russian police. He has told the Czar that the gravest danger threatens the Imperial Family, and that to meet it extraordinary expenditure will be required. The Czar will to pay tor the cost of the proposed measures out of his own pocket, as the Finance Minister, according to General Trepoff, will not provide the necessary sum.

The whole of Russia is to be divided up into carefully organised pol- | ice districts, with a large staff ol [police under General Trepoff and all [of liberal opinions are to be imprisoned or expelled. This proposal has strengthened tlf iagitation throughout the Empire for a republic, which was not dreamt of a year ago. In the industrial districts, in particular, the movement is assuming the most formidable proportions, and in Poland the stair of afTairs which exists to-dav vividly recalls the reign of terror durimj the French Revolution,

The Russian officials behave in the most tyrannical manner, but they are powerless to maintain order nV one has the slightest belief in the promises of the Government, or the faintest hope of reform. The revolutionaries are hcing goaded into the adoption of a policy of assassination *ni the Czar's life is threatened.