Show abolishing SIBERIA the kmil or the project 1 on raia faas the Is I 1 cry Consid trat of forden opinion special I 1 1 NEW nov 16 information from kieff says the russan government baa at last to dubuc opinion and ia roina to abolish banishment to siberia ft system which has been so long a terror to and a blot apon civilization such at least is current report of the truth I 1 believe there can be no reasonable doubt on the first intimation 0 this project I 1 tried to get the opinion ot a competent person on the truth of the news inq p 0 bable reasone and results and at last succeeded in interviewing mr S a man v idely known in ausa by his writings on siberia one who has devoted all his life to that country living and travelling tra velling in it as well as writing about it do you believe in the truth of newspaper reports about the abolition of siberia as a place of banishment I 1 asked him well it seems to me it baa a cooj found stion in vitial will the new reform consist I 1 again inquired As far as I 1 understand replied mr S it will consist in the fact eliat political will instead of being cent to siberia be in future confined in the central prisons or sent to more or lesa remote places in european euch as arch angelik angel sk etc ridding siberia of 18 large and dangerous contingent of criminals lessening the cost to the government and last but not least quieting just indignation of civilized nations against the inhumanity and barbarity of transporting human beings through wiles oer a dreary bare and arwen land bringing only balf of the original number transported to their dark destination ti what in your opinion are the reasons for the reform the reasons are many but the principal ones I 1 think are the works of your american george kennan and our present ake minister the secretary of the interior also the governor beneral of the central territories ex governor general of eastern siberia count Ign aUed you need not be aston nihed at all mr S bee ing that in fact I 1 was astonished at abe probability of such paramount attributed to an american journalist it only beems that kusia ia careless of foreign public opinion in reality the government cares a great deal more than you think about what is said and written of augsta in foreign public magazines and boots |