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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Item: 1887, the youth Josef Pilsudski nicknamed "Ziuk" by his fellow students at the University of Kharkhov, was arrested and charged with complicity in an abortive plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. Among leaders of the plot who were hanged was the elder brother of Nikolai Lenin. Though nothing could be proved against Prisoner Pilsudski, he was sentenced to five years exile in Siberia Last week Dictator Pilsudski remembered that in Siberia he was well treated by sympathetic guards, was even permitted to go hunting with a double-barreled shotgun...
...Item: 1892. the "hardened conspirator" Josef Pilsudski helped found the Polish Socialist Party on Russian soil and became one of its "desperate activists...
...Item: 1900, for turning out the illegal Socialist journal Robotnik...
Worker") on a hand press which was frequently moved from hideaway to hideaway, Editor & Publisher Pilsudski was arrested and placed in the dread "Pavilion X" of the Warsaw Citadel. Item: 1901, unable to escape from "Pavilion X," Prisoner Pilsudski brilliantly feigned madness and was transferred to St. Nicholas Hospital...
Petersburg (now Leningrad) from which he and a genuine madman escaped Item: 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War able Conspirator Pilsudski rushed around the world to Tokyo and nearly persuaded the Imperial Japanese Government to finance a Polish revolution against Tsar Nicholas II. The Japanese took Conspirator Pilsudski so seriously that they made a solemn agreement by the terms of which prisoners of war who turned out to have been born in the then Russian Poland were kept separate from other "Russian" prisoners in Japan while Polish organizations arranged for their transport to Polish colonies in the neutral U.S. Items...