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Show J ww 44 .4, ii w uU t L kiLJLLk. J : wi - : nRi Tiin) ; k r i I I ' I 4 - . Premier 'Wilfe: lids As!ied Jsuisli Lc:-ers Lc:-ers to Iiotifv : Ilini of nny Tiireii, h tat l(.!s Clcinied Tliot Recciic;j Will Intercept Such Infornoiica. ; ST. PETERSBURG. March 17. There Is already evidence that only & check and not a defeat has been administered to the reactionists who are conducting the antl-semltic ' agitation. Premier WItte, after he had forced & decision of the .Cabinet . to suppress the agitations knowing the audacity of his opponents, took the precaution! privately to ask the Jewish leaders to notify him Instantly whenever the Jewish Inhabitants of any locality were threatened in! order to place him In a position to Insist that measures be taken to protect them. "Will Block Warnings... . The Jewish leaders, however, charge that the 'reactionary clique with the connivance : of - sympathetic ' local Qov-emor-Generels ere boldly arranging to block such warnings.' The leaders claim to have proof that orders have been given at several places, specifically citing cit-ing Vitebsk, "West Russia, not to transmit trans-mit messages to the Premier warning him' of the lmmlnemse of trouble. - It is further charged, but proof is lacking, that this was done with the knowledge of Interior Minister Durnovo. . .. " Only Ostensibly Dismissed. ; ' It has been established that " Count Podotichanle. chief of the General Der- , mace, chief of the geodarmie of Gomel, west Russia,, who armed a mob there, while ostentatiously dismissed by M. Durnovo, in reality was only : transferred trans-ferred to a better post at Yalta, Crimea. ' , - . - . .. :.'-"-. In Spite of Ofidal Denial. . . t , In spite of the ofHcial dental of the shooting of ' undesirable 'refugees sent back to Russia, from England, private Information has been obtained tendlng''": partially to support the charge. -! Many, of the refugees were sent to Baltio ports, where the. authorities sre showing no mercy to revolutionists ri;;.. pita the Emperor's lnstruct'ons to c a- ' play greater leniency. Vhen the reluxees. disembarked, hav- ' .Eg fled from Kussia without- Tlaed passports., they were regarded an sua- -pects and some of them were given a short 'shrift; , ' ". . |