THE NIHILISTS' MYSTERIOUS NEWSPAPER.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 548, 28 June 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE NIHILISTS' MYSTERIOUS NEWSPAPER.

In connection with the despatches regarding the terrible condition of affairs in Russia; the following description of the chief newspaper organ of the Russian revolutionary party may prove interesting : — That journal publishes the sentences of the secret revolutionary committees, designates those who are to be the viotims, and desoribes the executions carried out by the Nihilist agents. Copies of the paper are to be found everywhere except where they are sought for. They appear in the most unexpected manner in the Government offices, in factories, barracks, and restaurants; the Privy Councillor finds them folded up with his Conservative journal, and the Sergeant among his reports. The Zemlia \ Svaboda is published once or twice a month, and the yearly subscription to it is six roubles. The subscription is stated on each paper to be payable at the •• known places," where, it is added, various revolutionary pamphlets whose titles are given may also be obtained. The shape of the paper resembles that of the Allgemeine Zeitung. It is printed on coarse paper, in clear type, though the printing bears murks of haste. It is believed that each contributor has a set of types in his possession, with which he "composes" his article! for the press, bo that the printing of the paper is completed within a few hours. On the day after the murder of General Mesentzoff an illustrated copy was published, the illustration representing the General lying in a coffin surrounded by lighted candles. Beneath is a poem relating how the Emperor came to see the remains and knelt, bareheaded, at the foot of the coffin. Suddenly a thunderbolt fall, sand a long procession of soft music is heard, lights go out, and murdered men In chains enters the room. These victims of despotism dance round the Emperor and the coffin, lift up their arms menacingly, and point to the wound i which General Mesentzoff had inflicted, j They then sing in chorna : "It i» not him we mourn, but ourselves, the innocent victims • ha only got wh»t he deserved."