The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-01-29
RUSSIAN STUDENTS
SWEAR VENGEANCE
AND ARE ARRESTED
Police Attracted by Revo-
lutionary Songs of
Plotters.
NEW PRECAUTIONS
Apprehension of More Dis
order Causes Posting OF
Troops in St. Petersburg.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 2S-An oath
of vengeance, to be visited upon the
Car and the Russian government, was
made Saturday afternoon at the open
graves of score of students who had
been shot down during the massacre
of last Sunday
Fifteen Of the twenty-five who pledged
themselves to revenge their deaths have
been arrested.
The victims were buried in the little
cemetery at Obuchoff, several miles dis
tant from the capital. Twenty-Five stu
dents, ten of them young women, fol-
lowed the hearses. and as the collins
were lowered into the ground knelt at
the graves and stretching their hands
to heaven took a solemn oath not to rest
until the blood of the victims had been
visited upon the heads of those who
spilled it.
ihen they sang revolutionary songs to
the tunes of hymps. The sound of the
singing attracted a squad of police The
stncents fed, but were pursued, and fif-
teen of them were arrested
Sent to Manchuria.
The fourth battery of the heavy artil-
.zierS which fired the shot into the winter
paiace week ago last Thursday, has
drafted for Manchuria with various reg
lments designed for Manchuria
Every indication, Saturday night
pointed TO apprehension on the part OF
The authorities that the disquieting re-
ports received from Russian Poland and
other sections of the empire would lead
10 resumption of the strike agitation
II St. Petersburg.
Nothing tangible occurred to warrant
this assumption The city had its usual
saturday night aspect, every theater
giving performances and the general
: sl,u ubiie Showing no inclination TO regard
fhe situation as serious
But Governor General Trepon is not
taking any. chances and. has completed
the most elaborate preparations against
an emergency All the barrack com
manders received instructions Saturday
afternoon to4hold their troops IN readi-
ness No leaves of absence We're grant
ed except in q few isolated cases.
Soldiers in ConceaIment.
Squads of soldiers were marched TO
various important positions and con-
ceaicd as well as the locality made pos
sible. Detachments have been quarter
ed in the government buildings, and
many o Ssse municipal offices, and the
presence Of guards at the bridge ap-
proaches leading from Basil Island and
other outlying districts into the city
indicates whence trouble is feared
Telephone communication has been
established between these distant posts,
and the winter palace as well as with
the various barracks. If any outbreak
SHOULD occur today the guards viii be
Reinforced with great dispatch. and the
chances Of victories over The troops by
ished.
Inquiry in official quarters relative to
the meaning of the prepara tions elected
only the information that precautionary
measures had become Il matter of gen
ers1 policy but that they meant notil-
ing. in particular.
The officials in General TrepoT' $
headquarters at the Winter Palace de-
clared with great emphasis that all dis
Cuieting rumors may be dismissed as
fbescless and that a quiet Sunday can
be predicted with a considerable degree
CT certainty.
Demonstrations Over.
The impression prevails among private
citzens that the strike. If il continues
at all, viii be conducted on a strictly
peaceful basis and that whatever trou-
bic may occur would be Of a purely DO
IlticaI character
The arrest of the fifteen students who
took an oath to avenge the death of
their brethren on the Gar and the gov
ernment, gives a fair illustration of
the temper of the radical element.
The report from Moscow that serious
disorders have occurred along the lines
OF the Moscow-Brest and Libau-Rom-
any Railways is officially denied. An
other denial deals with the runlor that
large portions of the Trans-Siberian n
Railway have been destroyed. This Is
characterized as the veriest nonsense
The attitude of the government is con-
ciIiatory so far as labor agitation is
concerned and il is understood that the
provincial governors in whose districts
serious troubles have occurred are in
receipt of instructions from St Peters
burg to deal, not only leniently with
the workmen. but to make definite de-
mands upon them to submit their pro-
gram so that the authorities may be
enabled to judge fairly between them
and the manufacturer
Manufacturers to Yield.
Apparently the government insists
upon making the manufacturers realize
that they must do their part in concil-
iaiing the discontented workmen. even
at a great financial sacrifice. SO that
the strike question may be absolutely
eliminated from the internal situation.
This accomplished the government will
have but one element 10 deal with and
the policy adopted since the appoint
ment of General Trepon indicates in
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