New-York tribune., 1905-11-07
WITTE'S GIGANTIC TASK.
RTTSST4 HARD TO PACIFY.
Massacres of Jescs, Pillage and
4rson IN Mang Interior Cities.


tonson. Nov. THE St Petersburg corre-
.,orsent of The Daily Mail" says:
war. hopeless war. prevails in the Caucasus.
-, 7Iranscancasan Railway. the sole line. is
.frectUaily crippled and reinforcements have
- compelled 10 march. Seventeen bridges
have been wrecked ana the ralis nave oeen torn
70 in forty places Telegraph lines have been
Viewed and Georgia and Daghestan are
isolsred Every male is in arms and the War
once is helpless
The Bucharest correspondent Of THE Daily
uou., serds the following dispatch:
There is terrifying news still from Kishinef,
rho civ Is strewn with dead. An unwieldy pro-
t-fonai government has been established
rarn1ne reigns throughout Bessara bia- and the
- ere taking refuge in the cellars. where
~ are diving wholesale mob OF thousand
aaters engaged in massacre of Jews in 1smail,
pessarabia and force of dragons arriving
sron7 Bendery. fred on the mob. killing forty
+-~o and woundng ia persons. The Bessara bian
-eyoIt is assuming immense proportions.
9. Petersburg. Nov. 6.-Dispatches received
,rom the provinces to-day indicate that the
situation is improving.
II is announced that Emperor Nicholas and
his family will soon return TO the palace at ST
petersburg. Count Witte to-day took up his
ouarters In a wing of the palace, where he will
he in constant touch with the Emperor
Progress in the formation of a Cabinet is slow.
Portfolios have been offered to several men,
among them Prince Eugene Trubetskoy and M
Koni both Of whom declined 10 accept, the lat
1er saving that he was too old TO enter public
life al such a critical time
Count Vorontzoff- -Dashkoff. unable longer to
endure his failure to restore order in the Cau-
aasus is reported 10 have resigned the vice
royalty General Skallon, Governor General Of
Warsaw. also is reported to have resigned The
place Of Secretary of State of Finland, which
NJ Plehve. the former Minister of the Interior,
absorbed himself while the policy Of Russiffca-
ton was in effect, has been abolished in view Of
changed conditions.
STILL NUMBERING JEWS
In some places. however. disorders have broken
o1t again with redoubled fury. The horrible
Etory OF massacre at Odessa is not fully known
here. In the Caucasus Tartars and Russians are
cutting one another's throats and the Armenians
are giving themselves up TO pillage and incen-
diarism.
From Bachmut Bessarabia. comes a ne~ and
revolving tale. A three days attack or the
Jews began Thursday with every indication OF
police organization Jewish students were
beaten. the Jewish stores il the markets were
sacked In the day and at night the plunder Of
houses began again Troops arrived on the
scene. but the following day the work of pillage
YVES resumed before the eyrs Of the soldiers and
mercy were unavailing. Toward noon the torch
applied TO stores and houses The police
would not permit the Jews to fight the fire and
the troops were wfthd~awn. Then the pillage
began afresh- II was Temporarily stopped Sat
urday morning through the efforts of the Rus
sian peasants. but the police spread false re-
ports which aroused the mob and there was
renewal OF the work Of plunder and massacre.
The losses are said TO be millions of dollars
A telephone message from Moscow says the
Jews are terror stricken with fear of a massacre
ba a hsO med rboi-
lodgings and are sleeping in the houses OF
friends
APPEAL FOR CONFIDENCE.
The Official Messenger" this morning prints
another strongly worded appeal for confidence
which apparently emanates from Count Witte
It hints strongly that the empire is threatened
with dIsmem mbersent unless the people rally to its
support and calls attention to the different rep
resentations with which the government is being
besieged 10 queI the existing disorders some OF
them complaining of the zeal of the troops and
others Of their inaction, some asking for mill
tary protection and others for the removal Of
the soldiers. The note says:
Although st is impossible in every case to di-
agnose the true cause of the conflicts if Is
clear that their origin generally is the hostil-
ity aroused among the different classes of the
population. Those who are dissatisfied with
the manifesto provoke the Indignation OF those
who received it with gratitude, leading to at
tacks and counter attacks, all Of which could
be avoided if the people only had confidence
that the reforms set forth in the imperial man.
festo viii be executed. Disorders accomplish
nothing. and only delay the reforms which are
designed TO give the people a representative
assembly in which to settle their differences. The
duty Of every faithful subject of the Emperor is
to aid in the pacification of the country
Another government note issued to-day, says,
The origin Of the disturbances is to be found
IN the embitterment of various sections of the
population against each other caused by the
imperial manifesto of October 30 The only
means of combating the disorders lies in all
classes becoming nermeated with the conviction
that the reforms will be inhexibly carried
through. No efforts OF the enemies Of reform
Sil prevent this being accomplished.
The note also calls on the fomenters Of dis
sfter to cease their propaganda and on Ioval
subjects 10 cooperate in the pacif1cation of the
country. as the government desires the support
in accomplishing the reforms Of the peaceable
and thoughtful majority OF the nation to whom
the future development of Russia on the basis
Of civil liberty and territorial integrity is dear
Ia particular" the note concludes the gov
ernfnert reckonS On sumner, Of