The “Russian Party”

We have received new materials confirming the report printed in our paper about government circles fabricating a “Russian party,” which is to work at detaching Belarusian intellectuals who were brought up in Russian culture.

On 12 June a certain Krachkevich, who had put out a couple of issues of a “Polonophile” newspaper in Russian there, was summoned from Hrodna to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Warsaw. This gentleman was then offered the chance to go on publishing his little newspaper with money from the government. Krachkevich was given an order to receive a certain sum of money from the state treasury in Hrodna. However, the ministry is so stingy that the candidate for “collaborator” of the government hesitates greatly: is it worth giving his name and his energies for such a trifle?