Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-12-21
ABANDONED TO
REBEL BANDS
COUNTRY DISTRICTS OF RUSSIA
AT MERCY OF LAWLEss
ELEMENT.
BLOOD FLOWS IN CAUCASUS
TARTARs AND ARMENlANs MUIR
DERiNe EACH OTHER AS
OF YoRE.

ST. Petersburg, via Eydtkuhnen.
East Prussia, Dec TIT seems to be
| beyond question that bloody collisions
have occurred between troops and the
united peasantry and workmen in the
streets OF Riga, during which machine
guns were used The situation is
most serious in the country, which is
practically abandoned to the revolu-
tionary bands owing to the concentra-
ton of the troops Of the cities and
where the landlords, aided by few
faithful adherents, are attempting to
! protect their property, the revolution
/ lists are conducting regular
Military Operations.
They reduced the garrison of the es-
tate of Baron Won Loewis to submits
sion after a majority of the defend
ants had been killed, and plundered
and burned the buildings and carried
off the baron. The survivors were
made prisoners.
Foreign Minister Lamsdorf, at the
first interview which he had with the
American ambassador, Mr.. Meyer,
since the latter's return to st. Peters
burg, while not optimistic, expressed
the opinion that the political situation
and outlook had considerably I'M
proved.
The law and order elements are now
the principal hope of averting the
cataclysm which the revolutionary
parties are organizing.
Mutiny in Manchuria.
The outbreak of the mutinous spirit
in the Manchurian army is partly at
tributable to the failure to pay and
properly feed the troops. The latter
problem is especially difficult owing to
the impossibility Of forwarding ade-
quate provisions from Russia on ac-
count of the practical paralysis of the
railroad to Siberia, compelling the
purchase of supplies from the Chinese
for which adequate funds are not
available. The authorities have now
hurriedly forwarded $12,000,000 to the
army in Manchuria
The reports from the provinces in
dictate that the country generally re-
mains close to the boiling point. The
], Tartars and Armenians are
| Numbering Each Other
as of yore. At Elizabethpol especially
there has been a savage exhibition of
race hatred. From Kharkoff, an agent
OF the New York Life Insurance com
/ pany who fed, brings the story of the
esta blishment OF republic there. He
says the military forces have gone
! over to the revo1utionists and that the
/ latter have full possession of the city,
The Associated Press has received
! a private and reliable report from
Moscow saying that the authorities
/. there are extremely nervous as the
city is denuded of troops, the soldiers
I having been sent to the neighboring
provinces, especially southeast. Less
than 10000 troops remain in Moscow,
! and this force is considered to be ut
terly Inadequate should crisis occur.
| Election Law for Russia.
The emperor's name-day, Dec. 10,
will be signalized by an important
peasant manifesto and the publication
1 of tie election law.
/ Under the leadership of the law and
order party an attempt is making to
! organize counter peasants party in
/ opposition to the Moscow peasants
congress.
czar Sticks to Promises.
| London, Dec. IL. The st. Peters
burg correspondent of the Daily Tele
igraph says:
The emperor yesterday received q
deputations representing numerous
leagues OF a patriotic complexion, in
lcluding Prince Scherbatoff and other
nooblenlen, all of whom are notorious
8 " DESTROYS for a return to the ancient
autocratic regime, and are dissatis
1 fed with the cabinet of Count Witte
Though they made no secret Of Their
aspirations the emperor did not give
them the slightest hope that there
4 would be any deviation from the
1 promises made In the manifesto o.
/ Oct. 80.
44o Officers Dismissed.
The st. Petersburg correspondent Of
4 the Times reports that 44O officers
a have been dismissed by the genera