Last Saturday's Times contained a full report of the remarkable
speech made by Prince ITrusoff Itt the sitting of the Duma on Thursday week. This cautious and sober member of the Right-Centre has sprung at once inti? the front rank as a leader and interpreter of the Russian people. By laying bare the sinister forces at work underground be has robbed them of much of their capacity for future mischief. He described the ground-baiting of localities in preparation • for a massacre, the visits of mysterious emissaries, the mobilisation of the riff-raff, the neutralisation of the police, and then the outbreak. The engineering of a pogrom had become a fine art, and a powerful league existed for its encouragement, under the auspices of a reactionary Moscow newspaper. Who protected this band of scoundrels and their experiments in "national vivisection" P No reform was possible until this mystery was cleared up, for to secure a peaceful revolution there must be a union of Crown and Parliament. " They were confronted with a great and terrible danger, and that danger would not disappear until men imbued with the traditions of the police office were excluded from the conduct of the affairs of State."
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