The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-30
Evidence is AccunuIating That
the Emperor is Entirely
in His Hands
FATHER GOPON HAS NOT YET
BEEN DEFINITELY LOCATED
Situation in Poland Is increasingly
Threatening and Practically All
Glasses of the People Antici-
pate Renewed Terrorism.

ST. Petersburg, January SO 1925 a. M
Evidence is accumulating that Emperor
Nicholas, throughout the present crisis,
has acted largely upon the advice of
Grand Duke Sergius, who is the most
reactionary member of the imperial fam
lily, the head of what is denominated the
war party" and whom the liberals stig-
matize as Russia's real genius.
With the first appearance of Father Go
pom in the movement, Sergius urged the
necessity of putting down the demonstra-
tions in the most energetic manner.
Since Sunday last his hand is consid-
cred to have been visible in the appoint
ment of General Trepof to the governor
generalship of ST. Petersburg, with the
exceptional powers conferred upon him.
Grand Duke sergius is also known to be
responsible for the charges placarded by
Deputy Chief of Police Roudeneff of Mos
COW, which is causing Foreign Minister
Lamsdorff embarrassment and now it is
believed he is about to prevail in the mat
ter of naming Prince Sviatopolk-M
skys successor in the ministry of the In
terror NJ Bouligan. formerly governor
general of Moscow, who, like his patron,
Is an extreme reactionary.
The Associated Press is informed
from a high source that Grand Duke
Sergius more than NJ Witte, is RESPONSE
BILE for the elimination from the imper-
ial manifesto of Minister Sviatopolk-
Mirsky's plan for an elected zemstvo
council of the empire.
seroius is All Powerful.
Against Sergius' influence, the minis
ters at present are apparently powerless
Sergius reigns In the little palace Ii =
side the strong ramparts of the Kremlin
fortress in Moscow, from whence he
dispatches daily a courier to Tsarskoe-
Selo.
Arrests continue.
Among those seized last night and
conveyed to st. Peter and st. Paul fort
ress were Yakonbovich, the poet, who
served a term of exile in 1886 for con-
nection with the revolutionaries; Nine.
Pimenoff, an aged writer, and her
daughter.
Father Gopon, 1t has not been definite
ly established, escaped through Finland,
ard was conveyed across the gulf to
Sweden by sympathetic Firms. AT
present he is supposed to be in Stock
which is attributed to the police, that
Gopon is a Jew.
The Zemstvos of Saratoff Mini Nov
gorod and Vladimer have adjourned be-
cause the st. Petersburg zemstvo are
p1 actically in control of the government
alactivity of the provinces, and some OF
the liberals are trying to induce others
to close with the object of further EN-
barrassing the government and compell-
ing 1t to yield to the demand for the
convocation Of constituent assemblies.
A marshal of the nobility from one OF
the central provinces has expressed the
opinion of the Associated Press that the
government could not extract Itself from
the present situation without very sub
stantial concessions. He believed that
within three months, in the face of thick
ening troubles 1t would be obliged TO
create a zemskyzabor.
Trouble Expected in Poland.
The situation in Poland is increasingly
threatening, especially in warsaw ana
LODI. In the latter place it Is reported
100 600 men are on strike. There are pros
poets of extension of the strikes in Odessa
and other manufacturing cities of south
ern Russia, where the workmen are bet
ter organized, and more serious. Mean
while practically all classes anticipate re-
n, wed terrorism 1t is said that when the
leaders notified the social democrats tnat
a truce had been proclaimed Immediately
after the close oil the zemstvoists con-
gress, they were told that the gauntlet
would again be thrown down to the
aristocracy, but that this time the SOW
ereign, who was specifically declared to
be exempt from danger during the re-
cent activity, as shown in the trial of
Sasoneff, the assassin of Minister Won
Plehve, would be included in the chal-
lenge. Attempts especially are expected
upon the officers who a week ago order
ed the soldiers to shoot
The resumption of work here Is expect
ed to become general today. The news
papers very generally discuss the tragedy
OF January q and are only able to hint
strongly that 1t might have been avoided
If proper measures had been taken in
atvance 1t is extremely significant. how
ever thas all the papers severely critic
ize the information about Englands re-
sponsibiity for the strikes.
AS the editors had all been apprised
of Grand Duke Sergius' responsibility,
their comments are indirectly aimed at
him.
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