HOW REVOLUTIONARY PAPERS ENTER RUSSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12991, 7 October 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)

HOW REVOLUTIONARY PAPERS ENTER RUSSIA.

Until a few years ago nobody was allowed to publish a jargon paper in the land of the Tsar, while for a long period the people in that, country were prohibited from receiving one, though many copies were regularly sent there singly, as letters, from London. Every Yiddish newspaper published in London is still prohibited in Russia, but several of such sheets are now produced on the spot, the Government permitting them to be issued in the hope that they will tend to nullify the effect of the revolutionary literature scattered so freely among the Jews. Among the little papers printed in Russian and produced in London are the official organs of the revolutionary propaganda carried on in Russia and Poland. One of these is sold in London, and frequently justifies its title, printing as it does important tidings from Russia, particularly about the " cause," a day or two ahead even of the Tiroes. It is mainly. through this medium that Russian Jews in tho East End learn of the conviction of their comrades. The paper, however, is intended for export, while the other journals printed in the same office are exclusively circulated in Russia and Poland. Of course, all these periodicals are under the ban of the censor; but they are nevertheless regularly sent into the Tsar's, dominion.? through the post, but by special messengers, who smuggle them over the frontier. Many of such emissaries, as well as their unsuspecting victims— merchants who have undertaken to convey into Russia bundles of the contents of which they knew nothing, and who have been horrified when officials have draw from them a mass of revolutionary literature — have been caught in the act of smuggling copies of such papers into Russia. But the messengers are only men of straw. The Government never lays by the heels any of the leaders of the movement. So tho stream of prohibited literature is never really dammed, let alone stopped; it .continues to flow steadily from London to Russia. And never has it . flown hi , such volume as of latt, J