RUSSIAN PEASANTS IN EXILE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81916, 15 January 1907, Page 4

RUSSIAN PEASANTS IN EXILE.

IEKIUJJLE ILUIDUJU'S OF IA.IULIIS. The Tinics a lclLcr from I'riiiec JCiopotkin. in which lie savs: N'mv it is 110 more the-.Minister ol the Interior who sijins ilie Old el's ol exile, lin-ssia having been appurt oneil be'w<>en sem.' eighty eov ne.rs. each of them act as if iie were lb., liea.l ol a dc-polic kingdom similar to the desI'ot'e monarchies of Ceiitr.il Africa. W hen h- lias ordered the po ice to make wholesale a nests, "and tlie'jin sons are overfilled., it is the Governor who signs !he lieap of orders of administrative exile frami.l by tie. poiiee. The eondition of the' peasants, thousands of whom are lir-inj; sent to (he province of Arrlmnj.'el, are cspcci ally bad. For a pensint administrative exile means a complete ruin ot Us household. The head of the family i- arr eted and disappears. J„ most ' i-e< no information is available. M.'iitiis pass before the wife leariethat her husband is in sont.. faraway spot ... the l-'ar Xortli. Jinssian y.r-a sunt Wives always follow their Imsliaiels into exile. A family of six te wards th.- North, an.] when il is there it has to !ive .in the T' ; / t d allowance received more or less rcpnTailv by tie I cad of the family. It is 'rep'orteil fiom tlnsi wortiiy sources lliat no less than I-iOfJ childre of exiles—mosUv peasant—have followed their father's to 111- province of .Most of their families hud to spend their very la-t nippers before 1 Lev ha,l reached the Special remote corner of the immense province wl;.-re the falli-r Inn! li"wi conlined. Tlier.- w-rp al i .'a('■>' cases of mothers Irvine' 1< ; drov. II themselves willi all their child i''ii. They could not stand ibe crip* I •if thi' starved lift!" ones. 'I he l!ns--iin lied Cross—(lie seer, t lii-:i u?;i"h has always worked for the ivli T ..f tlic prisoner-, and exiles—is - now bcfoi"" the imni"i!s:ty ot t'-:e ca. amity, Winier ]as a.'l.ready set in in th.' Xorlh. and brings with il ad the horrors of Polar regions—l:im-.-'■r. sen; vy. death. This is «hat Hie present ru'ers of liiissia have resorled (o in (idr'v to niainla'n) for a few monUis their rule, which is doomed nl rcadv tu duajipear,