. The Times of Wednesday contained a gloomy account of
the serious state of political unrest in Russia. Frequent murders of officials take place, and even the Social Democrats, who are nominally on the side of law and order, seem to be adopting terrorist measures. At Baku the Armenians and Jews are said to wear mourning and to refuse to visit places of amusement as a protest against Russian policy towards their people. The Caucasus seems to be very much in the position of a hostile country held by soldiers and a small body of alien officials. Russia is so accustomed to disaffection on her frontiers that she probably rates these incidents low ; but even in the heart of the country it looks as if the discontented classes were resolved to checkmate the methods of her secret police by an equally effective, and even less defensible, secret service of their own.
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