"RED SUNDAY "—AND AFTER,

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 67, 17 September 1906, Page 4

"RED SUNDAY "—AND AFTER,

The most conspicuous features in the Russian news during the past wook have been, first, the extensivo massacres in Bussiart Poland, involving young and old, chiefly Jaws, agaimt whom thoro has beon a general reciudesconco of perEcculian, oiganisod by tho authorities, who in spine cases have gone so far "as to show a prearranged smnal for the

outrages to begin ; and, secondly, the systematic proceedings of the revolutionaries, whose secret organising committee appears to be working on a comprehensive and woll-defined plan. In tho late CarJ Joubert's last book-, the unknown leader was represented as closely connected with the ruling family and apparently wholly tinassociated with public affairs, living the outward life of a devotee of science , and it is not impossible that the "White Hand" of the fiction may havo a substantial basis in fact Tho magniloquent words of the Tsar's proclamation, would seem to apply better to the revolutionaries : "Tuis or that peison may T>o killed, but it is impossible to kilJ the ideal " So effective is now tha system of re* prisals that it may almos^ b e said that the official who condemns a. revolutionary to death at the same timo signs | his own death-warrant, [ To-day wo have tidings of the r«» mpval from the scene of the. most outstanding figure in Russian politics, General Ti'Gpoff, who is reported to havo died from apoplexy. The public may be excused for scepticism as to the cause of his death. As the omciaJ chiefly responsible for the crime of "Red Sunday," twenty months ago, he was probably the best hctpd man in the Empire, and the fact that he was rewarded with the post of Governor-General of St. Petersburg, and later with additional appointments carrying plenary powers in all matters connected with crimo and the protection^ public safety, was accepted as convincing propf of the sympathy of the Government with his sanguinary methods. His life has been repeatedly attompte.d, b»t o^vipg w extraordinary precautions such attempts liavn' faijed. Last July General Ko?loff was assassinated in mistake for the Governor-General, and les3 th&n four weeks .ago it became known that Trepoff had been poisoned. He was then in a critical condition, and^iis cook and tluee other servants were under hi rest. It is significant that the only tidings unti) to-day were that ho was so spriously ill that the Tsar had placed him on tho retired list. This was two weeks ago, and there seems a strong probability that ho has really succumbed to the poison. Nothing copld show more forcibly the involved social conditions in Russia, and the extent to which revolutionary sentiments havo penetrated the higher ciroles, than the fact that the lady who lately, at Interlaken, murdered a Fienchmau in mistalte for M. Durnovo, Russian ex-Minister of the Interior, is tho daughter of General Leontieff and a near relative of Trepoff. Nor is this an isolated case, for tho lady who, after failing to blow up General Kaulbars (Governor of Odessa) and General Karangozoff, committed suicide, was a daughter of General Printz and v fellow student of the daughter of General Kaulbars. The life of a'Russian official must be exceptionally uneasy when he c.a.a never be sure that his deadliest foes are not those of Tjis own household.