IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Overland to India : vol.1 | |
| インドへの陸路 : vol.1 |
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引用情報
BATUM DURING A STRIKE 5
locked, even in the daytime, he replied that we might be
11 attacked and murdered at any time if we were not in a
state of defence. Here, too, stood some soldiers who
answered shortly or not at all when they were spoken to.
Boys ten or twelve years old loitered about the streets ;
they seemed quite innocent, but in reality they were spies
under the orders of the strike committee, sent out to
report any infractions of their regulations. Even the
di foreign consulates were closed, and it was possible to get
at the consuls only by back ways—at any rate such was
the case with the two I visited. One of these was the
Swedish consul, who had lately travelled to Tiflis to seek
an antidote for the bite of a mad dog—evidently here all
LL was in confusion. At Nobel's it was expected that the
te' stores of petroleum might at any moment be set on fire
and bombs thrown into the office, especially since orders
0~ were given to continue to supply kerosene to the
1 authorities.
A merchant could not go to his office ; if he did, he
was reported by the boy spies, and was fortunate if he
got off with all his window-panes broken and a severe blow
on the head ; or he received a letter ordering him to pay
a certain sum of money if he wished to save his life. To
s go to the banks was considered exceedingly dangerous ;
one would probably be robbed on the way home. How-
ever, I drew some money from the Tiflis Commercial Bank
and reached home without difficulty.
Besides the labour strikes, which, as regards the rail-
way servants, aimed at a rise of the monthly pay from
25 to 35 roubles, the terrorists worked with untiring energy
in furtherance of their own extremely far-reaching plans.
They availed themselves of the general discontent and
stirred up the ignorant masses by revolutionary talk at
secret meetings. They declared that the Tsar was deposed,
and that De Witte was president of the Russian republic.
The people would now take the power into their own
hands, all property would be equitably divided, the poor
would have land and bread ; tyranny, despotism, and
slavery would be abolished. Such talk was received with
stormy applause by the multitude, who saw the immediate
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