Immediate and wholesale, precisely because these open hostilities were not the result of a systematic and carefully thought out and gradually prepared plan for a prolonged and stubborn struggle, but simply the result of the spontaneous growth of traditional circle work; because, naturally, the police, in almost every case, knew the principal leaders of the local movement, for they had already 'recommended' themselves to the police in their schooldays, and the latter only waited for a convenient moment to make their raid.