# An Inquiry to the Government Commissioner in Vilnia

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/inquiry-government-commissioner-vilnia/
- Published: 1924-06-13T18:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T01:35:09+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/zapytannie-panu-kamisaru-uradu.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/zapros-gospodinu-komissaru-pravityelstva.md

> The newspaper asks the Government Commissioner why a certain Valejša, who earlier threatened people with a stick, now keeps a revolver, and whether it is true that the authorities have officially permitted him to carry it.

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After our newspaper printed the criminal past of Mr. Valejša, the "president" of the so-called "Belarusian" Civic Assembly and head of the "Polish party", he obtained a "rubber truncheon" and began to threaten with it everyone he suspected of contributing to the newspaper. He even tried to attack Citizen Luckievič, but Citizen Luckievič repelled the attack with his own stick, with very painful results for Valejša. Mr. Valejša then acquired a revolver and, in front of witnesses, went on threatening to use it against Belarusian activists in place of the "truncheon" that had proved useless. Now we have learned that Mr. Valejša has allegedly received from the competent authority the right to carry a revolver. We therefore ask the Government Commissioner: is this true, and does he know for what purposes Mr. Valejša needed a weapon and the right to carry it?