UNREST IN RUSSIA.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue LXVII, 30 January 1904, Page 13

UNREST IN RUSSIA.

Theic is no mitigation in the symptoms of f.crioiio discontent in the public life of Kiifc&iii (writes Tho Times conespondenl). A number of towns, including Baku in tho cast and Vitebsk in the vest, aro in tho state known an that of enforced protection, which is practically equivalent to martial law. A propo.su! w.ifl recently brought before tho Baku municipal council to strengthen tho police foico by 100 men. The Jews throughout tho pale vie being constantly inlimidulcd by tno poiico with threats of niuMsacies.. The appuiach of tho winter, with il.s pioapect ol revolutionary dt'inoiibtralion;;, has caused the authorities to take various precautionary measures. Jn Kiel! and in other towns tho Governors have issued ordciH forbidding tho assemblage of crowds in tho streets. The Uovernor of Kharkuff has ordered owners and managers of factories nnd woikhhopa to take special ciuo to prcvont tho appeuruuee among their workmen of disseminators of dangerous doctrines or of rumours calculated to disturb tho public peace. In tho event of the appearance of such persons they are to be caiefully watched, information in immediately to bo given to I lie police, and tho proofs of their dangerous character are to bo carefully kept. Tho Osvobozhdenie repriuU from an important collection of rules for gendarmes, which is issued to no one except members of the corps of gendarmes, the regulations in regard to what is known as secret police supervision, one of tho most darkly characteristic features of the Russian administrative fcj'btem. This method of supervision is applied to per»on3 " of doubtful trustworthiness," and poiico agents aro instructed to avoid any possibility of a knowledge of such supervision on tho part of tho persons concerned. Those persons are divided into two clasKcs — (a) students who have been expelled for taking part in disturbances within tho walls of tho Univeifcitie. 1 , j (b) persons who havo returned fiorn administrative punishment and have been freed ' from open police supervision, as well us those who havo been imprisoned for political offences. The work of supervision is to be carried out by tho public police and by tho corps of gendarmes, who are instructed not only to. keep lists of suspected persons, but to collect information as to their conduct, thoii* occupations and their social connections, their temporary absences, and their changes of residence The normal period of supervision is two years, but expelled sludent/i shall cease to bo regarded as suspected persons in (he 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. /