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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7246, 29 August 1902, Page 2

Many peoplo are inclined to mako light of Russian atrocities in Poland and to ascribe Polish national sentiment to imagination, But, if all we read of the present administration of Russian Poland be true, it is a wonder the people of that "fair laud" arc as quiet as they are. Only a few weeks ago, General yon Wahl, tho Military Governor of Wilna, had a narrow escape from assassination ; and really when wo think of so useful and blameless a life as President McKinloy's being sacrificed to the action of a misguided youth, while this tyrant escapes Scot-free, one may surely bo pardoned for not perceiving, at the first glance, that all things are ordered for tho best. Yon Wahl, who is an old and well - practised tyrant, had a number of Poles arrested on May Ist, for " making a public demonstration." Nearly forty of -them were stripped and jbioutod, tho Governor himself standing

by and j coring at the poor wretches 1 THs diabolical old monster, who revels in cruelty, seems to bo the modern and Russian counterpart of Mnrcus Clarko's Maurice Froro. Tho incident throws a strong light ou tho modes of Russian official administration, and tho atrocious tyranny praotisod in the name and without tho knowlodgo of tho Czar. Indcod, it makos ono boliovo that that Imporial Rulor is, after all, but an autocrat in namo; and that the real power rosts with thoso who shape tho policy of the Empiro and thoir uniforniod myrmidons.