The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-06-07
COSSACKS WHIP WOMEN
Russian Socialists Plans For May
Day Result in Fiasco.
COUNTRY WAS GENERALLY QUIET

No Blood She'd Minor Disorders in One
or Two Towns st. Petersburg Au-
thorities Prepared With Elaborate
Precautions - Cavalry Patrol the
Streets, and Disperse All Crowds.
st. Petersburg, Russia.-The widely
heralded May Day demonstration in
st. Petersburg were a complete iasco,
and reports from Moscow and the prov
inces indicate that order reigned gen.
orally throughout Russia.
Minor disorders are reported from
Reval, Ktshinef, and one or two other
places, but no report of serious tumult
or loss of life has been received, and
the attempts of the Social Democrats
and Social Revolutionists to signalize
May Day by great enforcement
demonstrations appear to have been a
thorough failure.
Dispatches from Kazan, Tifis, Sara
toff. Kronstadt, Rostof-on-Don Kieff,
Tomsk, and other cities say the work
men observed the day as a holiday;
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quiet was not disturbed.
In st. Petersburg the day passed in
almost perfect quiet. and happily with
out a drop of blood being shed. The
Revolutionaries found it impossible to
execute the program of demonstrations
and bomb-throwing which they had so
widely advertised, the w~orkingmen de-
clining to sacrifice themselves to ad-
vance the propaganda of their self-con-
stituted leaders, and the advertised
meetings were attended chiefly by spec
: tatorS.
Governor General Trepof handled
the situation firmly, but with a view
to avoiding collisions. Squads of Cos
sacks patrollsd the streets, reserves
being held out Of sight in courtyards,
and the Guard Regiments were re-
tanned under arms in their barracks.
A newspaper correspondent, who
rode through all sections Of the city
and suburbs, found the streets perhaps
less thronged than usual. More or
less tension and agitation were ap-
parent in the industrial quarters
among workmen promenading under
the eyes of Cossacks with whips in
their hands, but otherwise the city
wore almost a normal appearance. The
weather, which was cold and raw, per-
baps acted as a deterrent to would-be
demonstrators, as Russians dislike
physical discomfort.
At the Preobrajensky Cemetery,
where the principal meetings of honor
of the January martyrs as the vic
TINS of the Red Sunday" are popu-
Lac. nofIoJ Iol ho1r oIrarf;cad fhor0
was a scanty crowd, composed largely
of the curious. Cossacks dispersed the
crowd, the more aggressive members
of which sang the "Marseiliaise" as
they were crossing the fields. This
defiance was met by a charge of Cos
SACKS, who used their whips freely, in
FLEEING many nasty injuries.
There was a similar incident on Vas
Sill Island, where a dozen students,
mainly girls, sang the "Marseillaise'
and gathered a crowd. Cossacks can
tered up and dispersed the crowd with
whips, seeming to take special pleasure
in slashing the girl students with their
whips, but the girls were apparently
anxious to pose as martyrs. and de!ib
erately provoked attack by singing
revolutionary songs.
The affair gave rise to rumors that a
number of persons had been killed, but
in the incident, which happened under
the eyes of q correspondent, sabres
were not ever drawn, and nobody was
seriously hurt.
The day wound up with a tumult in
one of the peoples parks, where, while
merrymakers were dancing Russian
national dances, agitators scattered
prociamations among the crowd and
drove a scanty guard of police into a
shallow artificial lake. COSsackS came
up at a gallop welding their whips,
rescued the police. and made numerous
arrests. 1t was noticeable that the
Cossacks rode widely apart, evidently
TO minimize the effect of bombs should
they be thrown.
The Governor General attributes the
lack Of trouble largely to wholesale
arrests of i%ncendiary leaders.
The prestige of the Social Democrats
and Revolutionists has suffered
greatly by the days failure, though
they were trying that night to retrieve
it by issuing a manifesto attributing
their inability to carry out the pro-
gram to the overwhelming force OF
military and proclaiming a general
strike. The leaders were so confident
of success in advance of the event
that they prepared a number of in
formal hospitals or bandaging stations
in the neighborhood of the various adj
.vertised meeting places in order to rem
der first aid to the victims o. the ex-
pected rioting. Part Of the onus of
their failure rests upon Father Gapon,
who sent a message from abroad to
the leaders of his old organization say
ing. DO nothing until I return"
The police prevented a meeting of
resident clergy who desired to pass
resolutions of sympathy with the Met
ropolitan Antonius, who has been
transferred to the Caucasus on account
of his agitation in favor of a revival
of the P%atriarchate. When representa-
tives of the clergy asked an officer If
they might hold a meeting in a church
he replied in the negative, saying that
his orders were not to permit a meet
ing anywhere.
Car Restores Rights to Poles.
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