The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-11-16
TO END THE
MONARCHY
St. Petersburg In ferment
From Political Upheaval
LANDS GIFT TO PEASANTS
at Capital Taking
Measure, 10 Protect Their
Counipmen.

80. fETElsSnriiD Nov. ID, -
"i,awn with iii- ~,nrt mafiial''' Down
with ih- death pcnaily.' Down with
martial iaw Ia Poland and Ia al lns
sia." snch 10 the iral ~ N. work
m-u's proclamation IA DECLARING
grrai strike h-F-.
The Ra.-iai i,rm.rrais h-r, have had
"a impressive rs.sppnse un tie i,ar ~
M organizations ~ Nerkm~n a. their
summons fof a grn~rai political strike
u demonstrate their solidarity viii
ihr struggle ~ their Polish coinrade
inr autonomy aud a. protest against
tho execution 10 the mniinou. sailor
a CronsiadL The men walked out a.
al the big mills aud factories. and ~
employees of the Baltic aud WARSAW
railroads. the printer. aud other Glass
q. ~ labomrs struck. but the shops H.
the ccnter u III. city were not closed.
Troops have taken charge ~ thr clsr
trio light stations. which arr Operated
hy sailors. 80 that the city was not IN
darkness last night.
II the Finnish Socialists Join their
Russian comrades and lie up the Fin
nish railroad the only cgrcss from
the capital would he by water. and
the freezing 81 the gulf % Finland =
fortnight hence would close the last
exit. The foreign embassies sbare the
public alarm. and the British embassy
l. advising the immediate removal OF
women and children.
Al Russia IL again In the grip Of
great political labor uphcaval ordered
10y the workmen's strike committee.
which now IL completely under the
domination OF the social revolution
lists. whose leaders openly proclaim
that their ultimate object IN the com
plete overthrow Of the monarchy and
the establishment Of q democratic re-
public.
THE committees proclamation says:
The imperial government continues
90 walk over our corpses. IL court
martials the bold soldiers aud sailors
OF Cronstadt who rose I'm defense of
their rights and national freedom: II
enclrcles weak and oppressed Poland
with the iron ring Of martial law.
The workmen's council calls on the
revolutionary proletariat Of st. Peters
burg 10 renew the general political
strike. which has already demonstrate
ed It's dread power. In order to show
brotherly solidarity with the revolu
tionary soldiers and sailors as well n
with the revolutionary proletariat Of
Poland. Let the workmen OF ST Pc
tersburg cease work ut once"
A report says that ukase will short
ly be issued whereby large portion
Of the imperial domain. which covers
n third OF European Russia and which
at present is the property of the EN-
peror and grand dukes. will be given
to the peasants.
Sensational reports are current here
that the BLACK Hundred" had begun
rioting on the Viborg eide OF the river
and that great disorders were in prog
ress in the Alexandrovsky (the Hebrew
MARKET quarter Of the capital on the
Sadovaia.
,Advices from vladivostok indicate
that the mutiny Of the soldiers and
sailors has been quelled and order par
tally restored, the commandments hay
ing agreed to send home the reservists
and time expired men detained there
The emperor and the empress and
their children have left Peterhof for
Tsarskoe-Selo.
Spencer Eddy, American charge here,
has cabled the state department as fol.
lows:
Things are quieter at Vladivostok.
but the trouble still continues, and
business is suspended. Recently I'M
ported goods are being guarded in the
go downs by soldiers"