Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-11-02
MOB VIOLENCE
Holds The Floor in Most
Of Russian Cities.
Spirit Of Freedom Cannot In
derstant New Conditions.
RiOting and Useless Shedding Of Blood
Continues Without Check.

petersburg ana NOSCoN, Il Iioou VI us
patches from all parts of the empire
report disorders ir many cities with Il
heavy total of dead or wounded. The
people, While celebrating their new
| found freedom, We're, in many in
Stances, set upon by Cossacks and po-
| lice, while in other localities the spirit
of mob violence broke forth and the
lower elements of the population gave
| themselves up to pillage and Gestruc-
| ton.
The most serious disorders apparent
L. occurred at Odessa, where hundreds
OF persons are reported to nave been
Killed or wounded and where the riot
ing is mOInentariiy expected to flare
out into a repetition of The slaughter
| OF last July. and ut kaZan. where 4
three days reign of terror was ended
only by the retirement of All COSSacks
| to their barracks.
A deplorab!e feature of the news
from the interior is that anti-Jewish
unrisings have occurred in many
places. especially in south Russia,
! where the populace vented it's hatred
of the Jews by sacking their stores and
clubbing the members of the race. in
Sbitle tstf7tS resulting ~ tut, tOEcH
The attacks on the crowds are re-
ported 10 be in mcst cases the work of
Cossacks, who many times We're aprar-
emily let loose upon the people without
direction or authority.
H. ST. Petersburg today, General Ire
pOff. in accordance with his announce
ment Of last night, prevented the re-
sumption Of revolutionary dcnonstra-
tons by having the crowds dispersed
whenever and wherever they gathered
Kazan Place and the Nevsky Prospect
were several times cleared by CosSacks
and police and the crowds We're driven
from the vicinity of the university with
whips and the flats of sabres. General
Trepoff was aided by the weather.
which was cold and rainy and which
kept many people off the streets.
Count Whites task in securing q fair
trial for the new experiment in con-
StitutiOnalisn is a most difficult one
He is disappointed at not securing the
support OF the Liberals, on whose CO.
operation he counted. Many of these
are holding alOOf and seem rather to
enjoy the predicament in which the new
premier finds himself
tionaries who believe they have the
government stamped are bending every
effort to keep the movement going and
to precipitate Il catastrophe from
which they hope q socialistic republic
will emerge. This is consummaton
as little to be desired by the majority
of liberals. especially the Zemstvoists,
as by the government itself, and there
in lies the chief hope that the force
gathering under the banner of Count
Nitte is sufficiently strong to make
head against the revolutionary move
ment and the spirit of unrest through
out the country.
Count Witte is doing his ut
most to meet the chief objections
against the new regime. In ad-
dition to the promised amnesty for
political prisoners, liberty of the press
has been granted. Count Witte offering
to a deputation of editors Who called
on him to demand the abolition of the
censorship regulation the amusing ex-
planation that in the hurry of writing
the manifesto the words liberty of the
press" were inadvertently ommitted
and that the omission had not been
noticed until the complaint was made.
The Official Gazette formally an
nouncod that the term liberty of
speech" is to be interpreted as includ-
ing the press.
Against the demand for the removal
oc General Trepoff. Count Witte. how
ever. is infiexible He informed a dele
cation from the strike committee
which called on him, today. to demand
the release Of their imprisoned com
r3des and the removal Of General T'rep-
nif. that it would be madness for him
10 dismiss the only man capable of
maintaining order in the city at the
present juncture.
NOminal!y for the purpose Of perfect
ing their organization and collecting
funds the strike committed, tonight.
decided to call off the st. Petersburg
industrial strike. next Friday. at noon
but to renew it at an opportune mo-
ment.
The st. Petersburg railroad men
have resolved to continue their strike
declaring they have assurances that
the soldiers of the railroad battalion
will desert if Il little persuasion in
shape of train wrecking is employed.
No newspapers will be issued. to-
morrow. and probably not until Friday
at noon. The printers have determined
| to work only for the journals which
| refused to submit themselves to the
censorship regulations. The Publish
ers Association have met this deter
mination by resolving to disregard
hereafter all circulars issued by the
censor and to print what they please.
The only papers now appearing are
the official publications and the Work
mems Gazette. which. tomorrow. will
contain an article attacking lCount
Witte and Gen. Trepof. calling the
former by the name of SLY fox" and
the latter by the designation of THE
| ravenoGs WOLF
1t is officially eXpleained thatt he ex-
preston Freedom of speech" in the
imperial manifesto of oct. 80. was
meant to include freedom of the press
AT RUSSIA'S CAPITAL.