THE NIHILISTS' MYSTERIOUS NEWSPAPER.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5416, 24 June 1879, Page 2

THE NIHILISTS' MYSTERIOUS NEWSPAPER.

In connection with the dispatches regarding the terrible condition of affairs in Russia, the following description .of • .the ■■■■ chief newspaper organ of the" 'Russian " l revolutionary party may proye, interest-. ■. -, ing :— That journal publishes the sentences! of the secret revolutionary, committees,.?; designates those who are Jo be th.c; yiotima, and describes the executions carried. out ,-. by the Nihilist agents. Copies >ofuthe: 3 paper are to be found everywhere except where they are sought for. They .; appear in the most unexpected manner in the Government offices, . ; in , i ac- . tories, barracks,' and restaurants 1 ; the t Privy Councillor finds them folded up,?, with' his Conservative journal," and the' Sergeant among his reports. The Zemlia i. Svaboda is published once pr twice a month, arid the yearly i subsprip'!Q ; tion to it is six roubles, . The aubscripthin is stated on each paper to be payable at the y known places," where, 'it -is added, various revolutionary panwi* phlets . whose titles are 1 • given' • f mayA ■ f also be obtained^ The shape A 'of l • ) the paper resembles that of the AUgetQeine Zeituhg. It is printed on ; coarse 'paper, %^ in dear type, though the printing' bears } ' L marks of haste. It is believed that each, contributor has a set of types in his pos-^ session, with which he " composes " his article foi? the press, so that the. printing, a 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 represents -/. ing 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. a thunderbolt falls, and a long procession tl " murdered men in chains enters the room. f - These victims of despotism dance round the Emperor and the coffin, lift up their arms menacingly, and point to the wound which General Mesentzoff has received. They then sing in chorus : " It is not him . we mourn, but ourselves, the' innbcbnt. ? victim ; she only got what he deserved.","'