# Chronicle: Belarusian Meetings, a Performance in the Prison, the Arrest of a Communist Printing Press

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- Published: 1924-05-25T18:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T21:01:28+00:00
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- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/chronika-bielaruskija-mitynhi-spiektakl-u-vastrozie-arysht-kamunistychnaje-drukarni.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/khronika-byelorusskiye-mitingi-spyektakl-v-tyurmye-aryest-kommunistichyeskoy-tipografii.md

> A roundup of news: Belarusian congresses and meetings in Navahrudak, Pruzhany and Myadzel, a performance in the Navahrudak prison, arrests of Communists in Vilnia, and the case of Yakimovich.

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Belarusian meetings and congresses.

▪ On 22 May of this year, on the Orthodox feast day (St. Nicholas), a congress of peasant representatives from the gminas of Navahrudak county was held in Navahrudak. The speakers at the congress were the Belarusian members of the Sejm Mikhail Kakhanovich, Vasil Rahula and Anton Ausianik, and Senator Alexander Nazarevsky.

▪ On 25 May of this year a Belarusian meeting will be held in Pruzhany. Our members of the Sejm Fabian Yaremich, Pavel Valoshyn and others will speak.

▪ On 5 June Belarusian meetings will be held in Myadzel and Dunilavichy. The speakers will be the members of the Sejm Fr. Adam Stankevich and P. Miatla, and Senator Vyacheslav Bahdanovich.

▪ A Belarusian performance in the prison. As we have learned, on 7. IV. 24 a Belarusian performance took place in the Navahrudak prison, which is packed full of Belarusian intelligentsia and peasants. A group of prisoners prepared the show with their own resources. They staged the play "Mikhalka". The play was performed well.

▪ Arrest of a Communist printing press. The Vilnia newspapers report that the Vilnia police, under the direction of Commissioner Olendzki, have succeeded in breaking up the Vilnia Communist organization. About a hundred persons suspected of belonging to the Communist Party have been arrested. However, these suspicions are far from always well founded, since quite a few people have already been released from prison.

Recently the police arrested a secret printing press, supposedly brought from Berlin. As "Dz. Wil." writes, the press had not yet been unpacked. So the question arises: how, then, were the Communist publications that "Dz. Wil." writes about produced in it, if the press was not in operation?!

▪ On 27. V. 24 the Vilnia Court of Appeal will hear the case of Mikola Yakimovich of Hrodna, whom the Hrodna District Court sentenced to 2½ years of fortress imprisonment. The Vilnia lawyers T. Wróblewski and S. Mickiewicz are to appear as defense counsel.