Show T L Progress fi lli T RussiaD Revolutioll Now YorlA letter has been received re-ceived In this city from the capital of Finland which throws many sidelights on tho social political and revolutionary revolution-ary conditions there during the tumultuous tu-multuous days of the Svcaborg mutiny mu-tiny Tho letter was written by Mrs Isabel Donnor widow of Herman Don nor for 22 years United States consul con-sul at Hclslngfors and addressed to her son Prof H Montaguo Donner I of Now York 1 r HclHlnBfors Aug 1023 There I have Indeed been terrible ovonts happening hap-pening here The days of tho mutiny woro very anxious ones and tho continual con-tinual firing both from Skatudden and tho various fortress Islands was tearful tear-ful to hear The streets were full of Russian soldiers and Cossacks and many families lied from their homes I see that In the account of tho ending end-ing of tho mutiny In tho American papers what Is stated to havo been tho real determining cause Is not mentioned 1 men-tioned On ono of tho Islands held by the mutineers wore two largo powder 4 pow-der magazines Ono of those was struck by a shell from ono of tho men of war and oxploded causing great loss of life and if tho second and much larger ono had also boon struck later tho whole Island would havo boon blown up and a groat part of Holslng fora also A building close to It was struck by a ball and set on fire upon which tho mutineers hoisted tho whlto r I flag and capitulated When tho explosion occurred 1 I n was sitting by my open window and I It seemed to mo as If a cannon had i been fired oft close to my head Solo 1 my maid rushed In shortly after sayIng i say-Ing that many of the windows In tho adjoining house had been shattered and that every ono expected a second and worse explosion when wo should bo all blown up and urged mo to fly at once But I pointed out to her that i I had nowhere to fly to and that tho 1 streets now wore unsafo Mr Coolto next day they wore Induced to return to their duties on the promise that the matter should bo Inquired Into Two thirds of tho force It now appears are of tho socialistrevolutionary party par-ty and mostly themselves members of tho Red Guard and sided openly with tho latter In tho Hagnas riot and on other occasions of turbulence and bloodshed Tho police are very poorly paid and aro thus drawn only from the lowest classnow It is strongly urged that some millionodd marks should bo granted to giving bettor bet-tor pay and augmenting tho force besides be-sides havinga body of mounted police armed with rifles Dut tho senate demurs de-murs at tho expense Yet unless and until this Is done there can bu no safeguard safe-guard for tho public safety and order but In calling upon tho Russian military mili-tary Tho Red Guard havo been formally for-mally prohibited from meeting and acting In future but who Is to enforce this They permeate tho whole of tho working classes and terrorize all who disagree with them and they have no distinguishing badge unless they choose to assume ono They aro now undisguised anarchists and give free expression to their hatred of the upper classes threatening all sorts of bloody reprisals and committing continual outrages Walt and see I what we will do a droschka driver said to a gentleman yesterday whom ho had driven n short distance slinking slink-ing his fist In tho face of his faro as tho latter was paying him It seems quiet now on tho surface but there Is all manner of seething going on below It Attempt to Kill Stolypln Tho attempt to assassinate M Sto lypln tho now Russian premier took place as everybody knows at about four oclock on tho afternoon of Saturday Satur-day August 1225 in tho ministers villa on Apothecary Island near St Petersburg Tho minister escaped thor tho-r u demand a multitude of victims It seems that the same motive Is now animating tho revolutionists Bomb throwing has assumed tho sinister forms of anarchism abroad formerly wholly unknown to Russia Gen KuzmlnKaraviov ono of tho leading liberals an exprofessor of law In the military academy of Jurisprudence Jurispru-dence thus sums up the situation laid bare by the tragedy on Apothecary Island Extremists on both sides now resort re-sort to murder The government has found the existing laws tho dictatorial dictator-ial ordinances martini law and military mili-tary courts too great a restraint and leaps across these barriers at cvefy stop It has put itself on tho same piano as tho revolutionists methods and surpassed them and now tho revolutionists revo-lutionists arc borrowing from the government government Policemen Slaughtered Formerly ministers were killed but rarely governors and subordinate officers almost never Now more po Hcemon are slaughtered by droves Formerly pains were taken to avoid accidental victims as In tho case of Kalalov the assassin of tho Grand Duke Serglus Now no thought Is given to this Why Is this Formerly Former-ly only tho principal authors of ter roristic acts were executed Now no distinction la made between those that prepare or throw tho bombs and persons per-sons engaged In revolutionary agitation I agita-tion How many havo perished In the Caucasus the Baltic and In Poland without Inquiry as to their gradation of guilt 1 Formerly there wore orderly order-ly courts to establish tho truth now neither lawyers nor appeals are allowed al-lowed Formerly a few were executed In a year now hundreds are shot in a month Another phase of the reign of ter II ror is to be found in the raids made by small bands of revolutionists on government buildings such as banks o o = P s J the English consul had warned me that morning on no account to leave tho house so that wo were as safe at homo as anywhere olso and must risk whatevor might happen Poor Solo was nevertheless full of alarm Thoro woro no windows broken In this house strange to say although many woro shattered at quite tho other end of tho town The Red Guard at Work Tho Incident that most painfully affected mo was tho affair at Hagnas square closo to tho Longa Bron Long Bridge whore Is situated ono of tho t power stations and car houses of tho electric tramway Hero as porhaps I you know tho Hell Juard had attacked l and wrecked sumo of tho cars being t determined that tho general strike i should bp cased out from which all tho bettor class of tho townspeople I dissented and when tho Volunteer j Skyddsgardo h 1 o Safety Guard tho n I Communal Guard spoken of In tho a dispatches came up to tho defense of tho cars tho Red Guard lying in ambush behind the booths and angles ot tho houses opened a murderous i fro upon them from their rifles killing seven including the captain and lieutenant lieu-tenant formerly officers In tho disbanded I dis-banded Finnish army and wounding i many others The Volunteer Guard I wore armed only with revolvers and could not oven sco their assailants who wore only I finally dispersed by tho Russian troops The brutal wretches t kicked tho dead bodies of their victims vic-tims and trampled on them All the coven thero were an artist and an architect among them wero burled by the town In ono large grave side < by side and the funeral was attended by thousands although it poured with t rain tho whole day Thoro was a strike of tho whole i police force a short time ago because they did not like tho officer who instructed In-structed them and tho Skyddsgardo I bad to turn rot In > their place Tho explosion of the bomb concerning tho introduction of which no two stories agree but from tho ruins of tho buildIng build-Ing 28 corpses woro later recovered and the maimed bodies of 32 wounded persons wero taken to the hospital The attempt to take tho site of M Stolypln Is of tho greatest importance as marking the end of ono epoch and tho beginning of another In tho Has alan revolution In its lurid light tho present situation In Uussla is clearly discernible After tho failure of the Svcaborg revolt and tho Kronstadt mutiny signs woro not wanting to reveal re-veal tho fact that tho phase of the revolution which consisted of tho removal re-moval of oniclals highly placed had got beyond tho control of tho executive execu-tive heads of tho revolutionists On August 10Soptember 1 tho central commltteo of tho socialist revolutionary revolution-ary party hitherto tho principal terrorist ter-rorist organization repudiated tho butchery at M Stolyplns villa Tho worst fears Inspired by this crime are thus confirmed Tho central committee commit-tee long ago lost control over tho provincial pro-vincial assassins and revenge committees com-mittees It is no longer the predominant predom-inant terrorist Influence In the capItals cap-itals Indiscriminate slaughter has become the mot dordro of everybody every-body who can got hold of a revolver or a bomb Governmental Atrocities It Is however pointed out that the government first set the example Admiral Dubassoff cannonaded residential resi-dential houses in Moscow because revolutionists forced their way Into them and fired from roof window or courtyard Gen MIn and Col Rio mann slow without inquiry Into guilt or Innocence They allowed themselves them-selves to bo misguided by blind zealand zeal-and hale and tho desire to Inspire terror ter-ror It was no longer a question of putting only those out of the way who wore known to bu dangerous to tho state The situation appeared to mmmirm 4 iM e I post offices and churches considerable sums of money and a largo amount of treasure have thus been seized I Tho revolutionists operate In broad daylight as follows Five or six soldiers sol-diers are standing before a government govern-ment building with loaded rifles ready to fire when suddenly each is confronted con-fronted by a stalwart youth pointing a revolver to his forehead whereupon the soldiers stand as though seized by n cataleptic fit while other revolutionists revolution-ists thoroughly pillage tho apartments within When tho operation Is finished fin-ished tho stalwart youths walk backward back-ward about 15 paces holding their revolvers pointed and enjoining tho military to remain inactive Then they run The warriors quickly shoulder shoul-der rifles and a series of loud reports In quick succession are heard tho smoke slowly lifts and nearly all the soldiers aro seen sprawling on tho ground dead or wounded other rovo luptlonlsts screened among tho spectators spec-tators having deftly shot them from revolvers before they could fire their rifles Tho next day tho newspapers announce n robbery In Warsaw Fear Uprising of Peasants Tho recent transfer of 10000000 acres of tho imperial lands to tho peasants seems to bo another step that shows tho state of panic that now prevails It Is believed that tho cities can bo dragooned Into submission by martial law but that only farreach ing measures will savo the country districts from the worst horrors of anarchy Tho liberal policy of M Stolypln seems to bo no more commendablo to tho people than the acts of tho reactionary reac-tionary grand dukes The terrorists arc determined to go on until they havo assassinated every highly placed olllclnl in the country Warnings of tho fate that awaits them are being dally received by every minister governor gov-ernor and public ofllcer |