The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-12
The Great Demonstration
 Planned.
POLICE WERE KEPT BUSY
h Clash With Crowd Many
 Heads Were Broken.
stude.ts and Socialists wavins Rsa Flags and Singing sGsrseilaise Denaad Cessatie. sf wsr--
 women Took Fart.

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 Women Took Fart.
 St. Petersburg. Dec. 1f.--Not since stretched across the Nevski Prospek from building to building. charGeA down the boulevard from the Moscow Station to the Neva, has the Russian capital lived through such day of ex- citement as this.
 The authorities last night got wina of the big anti-government demonstra- ton planned for tonight. by the social democratic leader or labor party to demand an immediate end of the war and the convention of a national as- sembly, and leading every paper this morning in black faced type was an explicit warning to the people at their peril to desist from congregating in the Nevski Prospek near the Kaxani Cathedral. At the same time executive preparations to quell any disturbance. the police on the Nevski Prospek were sextupled and Devourniks or house porters. were marshalled in front of their respective buildings.
 Half dozen suuadrons of mounted genoarmes were massed in the rear of
 
 reserve police were stationed in several courtyards out of sight. Minister of the Interior Sviatopolk Mirsky gave strict orders, however. that no Cos sacks should be used and Fulton. chief of the police. issued explicit directions to avoid harsh measures unless 1t should become absolutely necessary.
 The newspaper warnings. however. by governing authorities to those not aaA r.f hA oEt trx 1-Sx stration defeated the very object for which they were designed. attracting semingiy the whole population of thix vast city to the broad thoroughfares4 and long before the hour fixed, despite the pleading of the police, who literally lined the sidewalks. the throngs on the pavements were so dense. that move ment was almost impossible, while the snow-covered boulevard was black with tangled mass of humanity filled mostly with curiosity. Thtpngs on tho sidewalk were practically the whole student body of the capital. including many young women who have always been prominent in Russia in liberal revolutionary movements, and also thousands of workmen belonging to the social labor party.
 WorIkingmen and Students.
 Toward one o'clock the workmen and the students semed to swarm tow- ard the corner of the Hotel Europe, opposite the Kazan cathedral The police, recognizing that the critical moment was approaching. tried in vain to keep back the human 'throng. When there was not single mounted police- man fin sight, one the stroke of 1 o'clock. from the heart of the thickly wedged crowd a blood reg flag. like a jet of flames. suddenly shot up. It was the signal. Other flags appeared in the crowd, waving frantically over head; and they were greeted with a hoarse roar. Down with Autocracy." The students surged into the street singing the "Marseillaise" while inno- thmeslves crowded theselves i'm to doorwaysf and hugged walls. Dismounted police made a sim gle attempt to force their way into the crowd to wrest the flags from the demonstrators, but the students and workmen. armed with sticks, stood close and beat back their assailants.
 Then, like a flash, from behind the Kazan cathedral came a squadron of gendarnGs, the doors of adjoining courtyards were thrown back and ba- tallions of police came out. A double squadron charged the flank of the dee monstrators with drawn swords. Five other squadrons circled the mob. cuts ting through the fringe of spectators. who gladly scurried to cover. The main wedge of the demonstrators stood fast only a moment or two. There was a sharp rattle of cudgels and sa- bres.. though the wounds showed the police struck principally with the flat of their sabres. The women were es- pecially fierce in their resistance. ofr nA %0o a6 nA blood streamed down their faces.
 While the mob stood. those within managed to throw hundred of stones over the heads of their fellows. The police urged their horses fiercely into the crowd, driving those who resisted into the courGards, the Hotel Eu- rope and the cathedral. The intense excitement lasted about ten minutes. after which motted squads of gen- danes patrolled the streets and the police devoted themselves to keeping the crowd moving.
 Considering the sharp fight the riot CTS had put up the police acted hu- namely with the crowd, avoiding bru- tality and roughness in keeping the throng moving and showing really more consideration than the police of many American cities would do under similar circumstances.
 In the meantime, those conuneQ m the courtyards who were accused as. causing the agitation were arrested. but others were allowed to go home the wounded first having the injuries dressed. There were probably hum drsI broken heads and several were severely wounded. though none fatally. so far as is ascertainable. So far there have been over 100 arrests.
 The ferment continued all day and far ipto the night but only one or two abortive attempts were made at demon stration the police being in such force that they had no difficulty in securing the leaders. no resistance being made in any case.
 Tonight the students of the Polite chnich and other institutes held meee %s ings at which fierce speeches were made in favor of the reform and the converting of national assembly,
 The greatest distress is expressed by the liberals over the day events. all declaring that just when the fate of the Zemstvo program was in the ball. ance, such a fruitless outbreak will he sure to prejudice every observer and put the strongest weapon in the hand of the autocracy reactoners That the demonstrations of social democracy
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