How Revolutionary Papers Enter Russia.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7948, 11 October 1905, Page 2

How Revolutionary Papers Enter Russia.

bntil a few: years ago nol;M,v was allowed (to publish a jargon paper in, Ihe landjof the Tsar, while for a long period the j people in that country were prohibited from receiving one, though -many copies were regularly sent there singly, as letters, from London. Every Yiddish newspaper published in I/oiKloti is/'still prohibited in Hnssia, but several of suoh skeets arn now- produced cm the sptyt, the. Oovarmitciit, permitting them to be issued in the h#po th»t t-hoy will twid to'nullifa- the offect of the revolutionary literature scatturod so freely among the Jaws. Among the 1 it-do papers printed in Russian a«d produced s in London-are the oflicial organs of the revolution nry propaganda aarried on in Hussia ami Poland. One'ofttnise is sold in l.mtloii, ami frequently justifies its title, printing as it does important tidings from iiussia, particularly of the v c«|is»," a tla.v of'two.ahead even of the Times.

It is maiiiU,- through' this medium that Itussi-an Jews in the Kast End learn of the convietion of their colif-radc-s. The paper, however, is intended for export, wlrilu the other journals 'printed ia the same office are exclusively circulatol in Hnssia and Poland.

Of course, nil these periodicals arc under elk" ban of tie oonsor : but are neveiLthelvss regularly sent, into the Tsar's dominions—not tlirough the [lost, but by special messengers, who smn.rg'le them even the frontier. M-nny ofl'-he emissaries, as well as'their um siisjieel i'lig v-idtinm—liiiii-oeeivt" , merehants who hare undertaken to convey inVo Hnssia bundles, of the c»nlenlfl of which t-luf.- know nothirfg. and who Ivave been -horrified when ofllrials have drawn frojji them a mass of revolutionary literature—lwivc 'l,».yn caugbl smuggling colii*s of such papers into fiiiHsia. Ikit the messengers are onl.v men of straw. ThetioV(>rnin«iA Hover lays l>,v the heels any of the leaders of tile inoviTiient.

So (he stream itf prohibit.'.'! literature is never realty; dammed, let. alone stopped ; it e.i>iiti<i.ues to flow steadily from l.,on'don l« Russia, nijvd never has it in such volume as of late.