The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-01-31
LOOTING POLISH CAPITAL
Strikers and Drunken MODS Strike
Terror to Warsaw Citizens
TROOPS WOUND BRITISH consul

Attacked by ITussars England's Represent
tativs is Carried 10 Hospital Bleeding
From sabre Cuts-stores and Reside
ences Broken Into-The Situation in
Other Cities.
London, England. The correspondent
at Warsaw of the Daily Mail tele-
graphed as follows:
"a group of hussars ran down the
British Vice Consul, Mr.. Mucukain, in
Marshal Kovski street. Two hussars
rushed at him with their swords, IL
ficting severe cuts across his face and
lower lip. Dripping with blood, MI.
Mucukain was conveyed to the hospi,
tai
1.-THE British Consul General, Mr..
Murray. had narrow escape from
being similarly run down in Wierzbova
street 1t appears that the incidents
were due to company of hussars
getting drunk and running amuck."
The same correspondent describes
Warsaw as being in a state of COM
plete anarchy. MANY have been killed
or wounded in charges by troops and
by the recklessness of swashbuckling
hussars, he says. The only convey
ances moving in Warsaw have been
the military supply carts, ambulance
wagons, and tumbrils for the dead.
The attempted rising of workmen has
failed. After some lighting the
wrecked and distraught city pauses
to see what night will bring forth"
Describing the pillaging of stores, the
correspondent says:
MANY put chalk crosses on their
doors or lighted ikons i'll their win
dows, and thus secured their safety.
The rioters paused before the sacred
emblems. The hOarse murmurs of the
mob drowned the church bells.
SIN several cases soldiers fred on
footing mobs, and in one case, in a
working class suburb. they fred cam
non shot, hoping to dispense the crowd.
Intermittent firing was proceeding
there ali day.
Hundreds Of shops were wreck ed
and several stores were burned. Prob
ably a few score We're killed The am
balances were busy all day.
There are alarming 1TImors from the
country district"
The Daily Mails ST. Petersburg cor
respondent reported that Sir Charles
Hardinge, the British Ambassador, has
asked the Russian Government to make
inquiry into the outra ges on the British
Consul eneral and Nice-Consul at
Warsaw
The Daily Telegraph's ST. Petersburg
dispatches give an unconfirmed rumor
that roughs attacked the British Con-
sulate at Warsaw.
A dispatch TO the Daily Graphic from
Sevastopol said:
In consequence Oh the gravity of
the situation here the Government has
invested the naval and military com
manders with ful powers to repress
disorders.
.;Over 300 arrests have tDeen made"
Vienna Austria.-A telegram from
Czestochowa, Russian Poland, report
ed that bomb was thrown in the cav
airy barracks there, and that many
soldiers We're wounded
The act is supposed to have been in
revenge for brutality in dispensing a
iworkmen's meeting.
Other dynamite 0utrages are report
ed to have occurred in the neighbour
hood of LODI. A gendarme is report
ed to have been killed
St. Petersburg, Russia. y The situa-
ton in Poland became Increasingly
threatening. especially in Warsaw and
LODI. In the latter place it was re
ported 100000 men were out on strike.
There appeared to be prospects Of the
extension of the strikes in Odessa and
other manufacturing cities of Southern
Russia, where the workmen We're bet
ter organized and more serious than
here
A strike of laborers, clerks, bank Off
Gals and servants has broken out at
GomeL
There was great indignation at Sara
toff because Cossack patrol merci-
lessly beat boys with whips as they
We're leaving school. many Of them be-
inc terribly punished.