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agents, and against would-be informers. The Government's number code, based
on selected editions of Pan Tadeusz and lmitatio Christi, was never broken. The
flow of correspondence, of orders, and of arms, was never halted. Conferences
between leaders took place in churches before dawn, or in pavement cafes. The
work of the secretariats was carried on in the Biology Laboratory of the Main
School, or in church halls under the guise of study circles or hobby groups. The
State of Emergency did not limit their activities, and the mass arrests of the
autumn had produced no prominent suspects. The break only came on 8 April
when a Jewish student of the Main School, Artur Goldman, submitted under
police interrogation, and agreed to talk. His deposition contained the following
information:
... I once heard that the leader of a rebel detachment in Lithuania, Traugutt, a former
army officer, was due to arrive in Warsaw as the commercial traveller of a firm in Lwow,
and that he would take over the leadership of the National Government... The above-
mentioned Traugutt did indeed arrive, under the name of Michal Czarniecki, but where
he stayed, I don't know. His description was as follows: medium height, large head,
swarthy complexion, dark hair, large black sideburns and small beard, ordinary white
spectacles, age 33-35...^10
Even then, Czarniecki steadfastly denied his true identity. Nothing was found in
his room to incriminate him. The statements of interrogated prisoners were
vague and contradictory. Not until Traugutt was officially identified by a for-
mer colleague from his old battalion, did he admit to anything, and then only to
having organized the Rising single-handed and without accomplices. The case
was tried on 18 July:
A Court Martial held in the Alexander Citadel in Warsaw reviewed the military-judicial
case of the following persons of various rank:
- Romuald TRAUGUTT, arrested under the name of Michal Czarniecki, retired Lt.-Col.
of 3 Battalion of Sappers, Catholic, aged 38, married with two daughters, nobleman
... Dictator in the National Government...
2) Rafal KRAJEWSKI, 29, Catholic, bachelor, freelance architect... Director of the
Department of the Interior...
3) Jozef TOCZYSKI, 37, Catholic, bachelor, book-keeper in the Public Highways
Administration, formerly exiled to Siberia in 1848, returning in accordance with the
Gracious Manifesto of 1857... Director of the Treasury...
4) Roman ZULINSKl, 30, Catholic, bachelor, teacher of Gymnazium No. 1,... Director
of Revolutionary Supply...
5) Jan JEZIORANSKI, 30, Catholic, married with two children, controller at the Tobacco
Board... Commissar for Foreign Relations...
6) Tomasz BURZYNSKI, 29, Catholic, married, Under-Secretary at the Warsaw Criminal
Court... representative for Plock and Augustow...
7) Marian DUBECKI, 26, Catholic, bachelor, teacher at the District School, formerly
exiled from Volhynia to Vyatka... Commissioner for Ruthenian Affairs.
8) Tomasz ILNICKI, 50, Catholic, married, childless, an official of the Polish Bank...
chief teller of the revolutionary Treasury...
9) August KRECKI, 21 Catholic, bachelor, trainee at the Treasury... secretary...