Show RECORD A record of Russian revolutionary ac activity activity as shown by criminal statistics for 1 r four days das in September is reported in the Literary Digest froth from a Russian newspaper and it gives better than any other summary published an idea of the conditions Jn n the empire In its days da s sf of f distraction According to this report eight soldiers policemen and officials and private persons were killed in armed riots in different sec see sections of the empire the wounded being There were ven political homicides s nine Rob Robberies Robberies Robberies were also perpetrated in two tramway offices three banks two mills seven churches seventeen seven teen three and five live stores and 25 23 private persons were held up and stripped of money and valuables In connection with these robberies twentynine casualties occurred and fifty three arrests were made The buildings destroyed by fire by the revolutionaries during the san same sanie e period Included two mills seven country houses city houses fifteen peasants huts and two important government buildings Sentences S of death were passed on twentysix six revolutionaries and seven seventeen seventeen seventeen teen were condemned con to life Ute imprison imprisonment imprisonment ment with hard labor The he total num nuni number number ber her of arrests made amounted to 43 Of revolutionary newspaper editors four were condemned to imprisonment and fine The disturbances made by convicts in the th government prisons re resulted resulted s in the death of ot eight persons the wounding of fourteen and the of ot eleven prisoners Students of the French revolution particularly of the period intervening from tho the convening of the states gen general general general eral to the final reign rei n of terror must be be Impressed i by the constant parallel his historically historically historically between conditions then and L conditions in Russia now An attempt to pacify by meaningless promises of ot o political reform then weak attempts att at repression then famine more con concessions cessions and finally the discovery of ol the masses that they were powerful J I enough to crush the empire and its Jt It aristocracy these were the steps in Is L France and slowly but certainly the i same steps are marking the progress of the revolutionary movement in Rus Russia Russia sia sla |