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REPENTANT BANDITS. THE REVOLUTION IN THE „CAUCASUS!'

THA DAILY TYINGRAPH'S '* PETROGRAD

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Bide by side with the great historial events of the Russian revolution are pro ceding a number of subsidiary dramas, almost comic- sure of which have an operatic character. The old days of the Savoy Theatre invalutarily come to one's mind when one rends in the Russian

General Bedford, Deputy Surge of Medical Services, Northern Dind, gave evidence before the Select Committee which is investigating the duet of medien re-examinations under ac Review of Exceptions Act. The con

the story of the Peace of stitution of the travelling medical boards,

This mountainous district he said, was not quite the same as that which lies to the east of Tiflis, is largely of the ordinary recruiting medical inhabited by restless tribesmen. From boards. In the case of travelling boards local doctors sometimes assisted. It gave in detail a description of the examination. A recruit ran die gauntlet of members of the board, each of whom examined him for a particular form of disability. Then all expressed their opinion, and the President decided what the recruit's category should be. W ness produced an Army instruction to the effect that the President must himself classify all recruits.

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these had been recruited formidable gang of robbers, which for more than top years had ceaselessly harried the pence able population, plundering and murder ing, and successfully setting at defiance of the weak authority exercised by the Tsar in that region. But the now doctrines liberty, equality, and fraternity found their way to these wild bandits, and touched their hearts, and, hearing that fa great evolutionary meeting of the population was to be held at a central The Chairmen (Mr. E Shorth, K. point, they decided to make an attempt. M.P.) remarked that this was a new in to come to terms with their traditional Accordingly emissaries word struction, but General Bedford replied Enemy.

No sent to the gathering under adag of that it was issued last February. recruit could be finally rejected without bruce, with the message that the bandits, the President's approval. During the being desirous to conclude year which unded on June 30th last would undertake to lay down their arming uniboonru thirty-three boards in the Northern Com, and commit no more hostile nets against

He their mothers." mand examined 500.000 reunits. disagreed with the statement that a suc cessful stockbroker with a weak heart might drop down dead in the Army through exertion. That is the very thing he would not do." the witness said. if he was properly classed. He would be put into C3, where he would be as safe

pone","

This proposal was eagerly accepted, and a few days later the whole band, unarmed and waving red flags, marched into Telay, the chief town of Kakhetin, to attend the "grand revolutionary meeting which was held there. The robbers, we are told. unreservedly adhered to the Revoln

as a church. There are the very men woltion, and wore to abandon their former want to get, men of good education, not fit to go into A or B. He would be most valuable in a hundred offices where we are dealing with a technical subjects'"'

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BYRRY MAN OF POTENTIAL USE. Witness handed in a document contain ing the instructions issued by hing pin Setitamber to the boards on the subject of the large number of mer rejected as permanently unfit to this document he said: "I wish to call serious attention to the very large proportion of men found permanently unfit by some of the boards. The point I wish particularly to emphasise is that every found hermanently unit is once and for all lost to military service and cannot be called uzon again for re-examination or em ployed in any military capacity of any kind. In future boards must retain overy, man who is of any potential as what ever in the Army,"

The Chairman asked whether, this in- struction was based on anything issued from the Wus: Office.

Witness-Not that I am aware of.

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made of lite." It was, however, realised that this general reconciliation might not be enough. There was a long list of crimes against the bandits, and the new legal authorities, with their aring stretch- ed out as far as Kakheti might have something to say on the matter. More- over the castem of blood feud still exists in the district, and many of the inhabi

any had lost relatives or cows through the robbers' raids. It was. therefore, decided that for the present the gang should leave Kakhetin altogether, and that the Executive Committer" of Tiflis should be requested to act as media tors for them both with the central autho rities and with the villagers. committen consented to do, and it also guaranteed the baridits their freedom on condition that they surrendered their arms, which they did..

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The Tiflis Committed then: invited the village communities to hold meetings to consider the matter and to pass the fol Taking into con lowing resolution:" sideration that the illegal conduct of the obbers was conditioned by the circum stances of the old régime and the action of officials of the old Government, and

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said persons have completely soud their activity,

and, having appeared before the public with contrition, have begged for Witness-No. I think the boards rendulgence, we have resolved to consign sponded to it very well.

The Chairman suggested that sometimes the civilian doctors did not regned men as Bl to stand the Army regime,

Witness Because a man is in khaki they think he is going to fight, but that dous ant follow. He added that the memorandum' was issued after a meeting at the War Office, which was called be Carise it was felt that through permanent rejections there was a preventable leakage of men who might be of use.

Did General Keogh know that you were going to send this out--I presume he must have known that we should do something to interpret the policy of the War Office with regard to the higli per centage of these rejections.

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to utter oblivion all the crimes committed by the said persons in Kakbetin up to the time of the national upheaval, and conse quently to request the Tillis Executive Committes to submit a petition for the cessation of all criminal precedings against these persons.

Apparently the resolution was carried everywhere, and the peace of Kakhetia ratified.

Who agents sent out by the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates at Tiflis toured the Yelisavetpol district, midway between that town and Baku, in the early part of last month, they found the population of sume isolated villages

complete ignorance of the events of the Revolution. The loent Shane had announced that Russia had given up that part of the Caucasus, and that their own The Chaiyan read a documerit, issued old nucharity would, therefore, be restor by witness last June painting out that ed. This prospect had greatly armed the spirit of. les plong instructions the peasants, who had sceretly decided had been justifiably misconstrued by to send a deputation to Petrograd with some medical boards. Men are being the request that they might be taken back passed of absolutely no potential asuto Russian citizenship. When the Rus whatever,

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give pledges of something that is to be The activity of the German propagandu done, and that is not communicated to in neutral countries is only too well- youNo. I know nothing about politics. known, and it is obvious that the German

It is not a question of politics. Re Government spends large sums sponsible Ministers of the Crown give end. The fatin says it can give the apOn Sale at all the Leading Tobacconists. BOTELHO BROS., pledges in Parliament of certain things proximate figure from, t which shall be or shall not be done. Do Thus in Spain alone the Germans spend I understand that these promises are not on propaganda over £80,000 per month. communicated to you or to your com- They have in Switzerland started since mand The only thing they communi- the war over 1,200 quite new business cate to us are the Army Council instruc undertakings. Finally, the total estimat ed expenditure of the German Govern

It discloses a very deplorable statement on propaganda is put at £16,000,000 of things, commented the Chairman. per annum

Referring to his remarks Issed in

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witness said that he found out later that the document, that if the recruiting the men whom he had inspected and to

whow his remarks applied were the dregs boards realise this there will be a cou of the whole command, and that proporsiderable reduction in the proportion of tionate to the hundreds of thousands of rejected recruits." recruits: who had been daily examined by the numerous boards their percentage

The Chairman-Had the proportion Witness-I think it had been high all been high in your command

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General Jerkins, Deputy Director of of the pledge Medical Services, Eastern Command, Ministers said that after the meeting at the War "Don't you think it would be better Office referred to by the last witness on if you had had your attention drawn to the subject of the rejection of men who then asked the Chairman. might be usefully employed in the Arriv Witness renlied: I do not see what it he issued an instruction to the medical has to do with me. I have nothing to do boards in his command. In it, he said with nolitics. that the large number of rejections eft

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it to be inferred that many men were plied the Chairman sharply. Do you being classified B a C3 or totally suggest to the Committee that it is no rejected who might be usefully employed concern of yours to see that your recruit- on medical service, and that there wering boards carry out pledges given by many duties in the Army which incurred Ministers ?".

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