The Indianapolis journal., 1904-02-14
RUSSIAN NEWSPAPERS
PRINT FIRST WAR NEWS
Dreamy MuScovite Aroused and
All the Land Is Resounding
with War Cry.
FURIOUS OVER DEFEAT

ST PETERSBURG, Feb 13.-For the first
time since the beginning of hostilites in the
far East, the government tonight gave the
Russian newspapers permission to publish
the accounts received from abroad of the
naval engagement off Chemulpo, in which
the warshipS Variag and Korietz were de-
stroyed. The war fever has been aroused
here and apparently all over the empire, or
at least all over European Russia, in sin
gle week. Such patriotic demonstrations as
have been witnessed in st. Petersburg since
hOstilites began have. been all the more as
tonishing bcause of the public indifference
during the period of negotiations and al-
most up to the hour when japan struck the
first blow at Port Arthur. But now the
whole empire seems TO have been lashed
into fury by defeat, and like a bear when
it is wounded and angered, it is prepared
TO fight TO the end. The dreamy Russian
character has been stirred to depths of re-
sentiment which ii will be difficult to un-
derstand abroad
The patriotic demonstrations have been
almost continuous for three days, and they
have been spontaneous. Some of them were
extraordinary in character. To-day the
sckoolboys and students numbering thous-
ands marched bareheaded for hours up and
down the NeVsky Prospect bearing flags,
shouting and singing patriotic airs. They
were cheerd by enormous crowd Like
previous professions this one went first TO
the Aniehkoff Palace. where the Dowager
| Empress. who is popular with the people,
| showed herself. Later the boys and stu
| dents surrounded the Winter Palace and in
| response to their enthusiastic cheers, the
| Czar and Czarina appeared. When the
| Czarina threw kisses 10 the boys, vast
| shout, which walked echoes across the
Neva went up.
AT the French embassy, which was next
| visited by the procession, Nine. Pompard
| was compelled. in the absence of the am
| bassador, to appear at a balcony and ac-
| knowledge the cheers for France. In front
/ of the barracks regimental bands played
| the national hymn TO a cheering crowd.
There were demonstrations tonight outside
| the theaterS, and the performances going
| on inside were stopped while the orchestras
| came out TO the street TO play folk songs.
| The fact that the poorhouse porters pay
| their last cent for extra newspapers and
| that cab drivers do not charge military
| men for carrying them around shows how
| deeply the feelings of the people have been
| touched.
| kilograms from almost every town in
| European Russia tell the same story OF
| popular demonstrations. At Moscow there
| were great manifestations in front of the
| palace of Grand Duke Serge and before the
| Iberian Chapel. where stands the sacred
| image of our Lady of Iberia, before which
! the Car invokes blessings when he goes
| TO Moscow. Thousands of persons knelt for
! hours in the snow in front of the chapel
| praying for victory.
| The mobilization of the reserves in Siberia
| and the Kasan district calls 20 the colors
| 3O0O 900 men. All men who have served five
| years in the army and are under forty-thret
/ years of age must report. This will result
| in the DISCRIMINATION of daily life in this
| part OF the empire and it will have an i'll
effect upon every profession and calling.