ABSTRACT
On the 30 November a certain Kandeliaki, a member of the local Social-Democratic organization, met Koba, coming from Tiflis, in the Batoum railway-station. The Social-Democratic Committee of Batoum was accustomed to hold its meetings in the cottage of a certain locksmith, Stepan Malenkov, on the outskirts of the city. As a matter of routine, Koba's dossier was submitted to a special council in the Ministry for the Interior in St. Petersburg. This council, which was composed of four high officials of the Ministry for the Interior and the Ministry of Justice, was authorized to sentence a prisoner, on the evidence of his dossier alone, to 'deportation and compulsory residence'. On the 30 July, 1903, the famous Congress was to have met in Brussels, at the headquarters of the Co-operative Societies. But the Belgian police intervened, and the delegates made for London. The meetings which took place in London were to determine the entire orientation of the Russian revolution.
