The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-14
TROUBLE IS
 APPREHENDED Russia May Have Another Red Sunday. REv0LUTIONISTS FEARED Resistance Being Urged by
 the AgitatOrS. workmen Arming Themselves ""h Bombs and Repeating Revoivers'
 Elaborate Preparations to
 auen Any Disorder.
REv0LUTIONISTS FEARED

k, the Russian May Day, is awaited witu nervousness both by the public and the authorities The revolutionary agIta tors would like to make 1t another heo Sunday in every city of the empire anu everywhere are urging worKmen to celebrate the fete with antl-GoVern- ment demonstrations and to reslst Wien arms if the police and troops ih'e' fere. ...s h,,
 The agttators are covertly aided py some radicals who have not the cour age to come out into the open, anu who are trying to pave the way to set I'D the cry of shooting down or ihno- cents in the event of bloodsneo uy warming the authorities that the meet ings arc intended to he pacific. but nerusal of the countless proclamations with which St. Petersburg, for in- stance. is flooded proves conclusiVeiy That if is really intended to preclpl- tate collisions. Many workmen are said to be armed with bombs ana re yolvers and large stock o1 pls.ols os an automatic repeating type smuggleu in for the revolutionists, are being or fered for sale to tho initiated at cost price. ,,, .a ayan those of radical views. realizing tne futility of bloodshed, Are couhsenns the workmen not to 1eopardize tneta
  ;ssued systematic warnings. Never- theless, distaining the advice of welt xvishers and defying the warnings oi inc police. the Social Democrats anu Social Rcvolutionists have caliea DIS meetings to be held at Smolensk flelu' on Vassili Island, at the PreooraJenSM Cemetery. on the Schusehberg Causee, where some of the victims of January % are buried; and at the Petrovosky Park. in the Vtbog quarter, at several nIaces in the Putiloff district, and at other industrial centers.
 BIO0Gshed Expected.
 It is almost too much to nope lna. the day will psss podanad an ni1 ooyernor- General Trepotf and Director Of Police Kovalensky, W nile expressing the nope that all will be quiet tomorrow as Tar as st. Petersburg Is concerned. adnit the possibility of disorders
 Eiaborate precautions 1s +na aaTe cftv pSen %es further reinforced during the week and a large detachment of Don CosI sacks arrived tonight. Ihey staFeo open eyed at their first view or tne St Isaac's /Cathedrai and at other siehts of the big city as they rode to their quarters Twenty-Five thousand cossacks are stationed tonight in va rious quarters of the city, prlnclpally Jn the outskirts and all or the guard reeiuents are under arms put sPeClllc written orders issued by Prince vas siiichikoff, Grand Duke Vladimir's aide. who will be in active command are that the order to fire must under no circumstances be given until the troops are actually attacked. Special ordsrs have also been given to the Cossacks, who with the geudarmerie will be used to disperse the crowds, to not even draw their sabres unIess in the event of A Cossack being killed or woundeo hut to employ their whips freely II he- cessary to scatter demonstrators.
 Peaceful crowds. if not organized TOT demonstrating, will be permitted to as. ssmbie. Today there was no sign or anproaching trouble. The workmen naid their accustomed Saturday visits to fine bath houses and went shopping in the town and otherwise enjoyed half holiday. There was no indication of the tensio napparent on the eve or the trouble of January 22. At Goul- vanye Park, beyond the Putiloff in- dustrial quarter, there was the tradl- tional promenade of girls Of the poor ar classes before prospective benedicts. and the merrymaking was noisy and hearty as ever.