The Thames Star. Resurrexi. MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1906. EDITORIAL JOTTINGS. THE PRESENT POSITION IN RUSSIA.

Thames Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 10167, 10 December 1906, Page 2

The Thames Star. Resurrexi. MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1906. EDITORIAL JOTTINGS. THE PRESENT POSITION IN RUSSIA.

Tto statt> of turmoil «d anurchy es> wholesale robbery and murder. Ihe whole country is undeav a reign o* terror, ajid nuvny who escape tine assassin fall a t ,.victim to then- ovm fears as did' the Czar's.' own friend, a few weeks asp. We ivre told ot a new development of the. travelling Anarchist. He ha^. made his appearance on the Volgn. boats, for the firsttime opuiuy, i.h"s season. These men we arc told, may not be professedly Anarchists, or even Socialists, but the- wenr Uio insignia, of the fighting \,"-.nil?—;bluck blouses, block enps. top boots, and •le-.i- 1 »■ ' " " Thl T generally hnvx> "iris with them, sunply dMssed, nnJ jvearin? strnw bata. Tliov are all v.nmpUOT*, borne oi them wiw boys M-ro ofun tbau not thew voun- people are students. Ifco lashJon Zxume iiam if t-i drew »oi*men. wit.lv thy. i-mc exu>putm, Jiar. the tnviiiion.l R.u- L>Wuw U exchanged J,r a W.i*k wo. M-- ro-lor ot Uic Aimu „in-:-' dMt.li «n,.r [f * red shin :n- -- -:1/\ -,; a bb,:k fcl.-iw is OTn- 9 T0 ".,,i, » :i SrcJ-J DMiocrat, f1.(».-r< bin-M t. 1.).-'. 'n ' « fhoasine tv. tf „vl! or s-,'.!« wi^om between An^-h-^ i^" or..- I-. :'^ci nwnar{:i.v on th? ofliST. " JVO «r tfcr<-

yeiaors ago schoolboys never appeared without the'r uniform*'. The blue and grt'sn. coats aaid F'liining babbons have been discarded, as an outward and visible sign of independence', and the revolutionary black Mouse i» nearly universal- Opcasionally one sees a efcuden't's or gymnais.b's cap, thj sole survival of a pas-t sch'olastio age Somet.ima-,, one catches a glimpse of a revolver carried beneath, tihe Mouse, and on the raihv.y Wp^form at SisiUn ai mock Anarchist, or, possibly, a real one, with hisi pistol in a leather ca.se atii.-'ohed io his. bolt wa- noticed. The tiendarniL-4 protendeJ not, to «cc him. Tlhiery are lierr'oii'ised tliei-e, ad in other part* of Ru'isia, raid the possible capture of a six-shooter if= nob sufficient indkioemient to .them ;bo rislc their lives in; a.n affray with! a, well-armed and desperate, man.