Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-01-25
Many Troops Refuse to Shoot Their Brothers

revolution challenged with massacre has replied
with dynamite.
Everywhere in the suburbs where there are sol.
diers or public buildings bombs are being thrown
A state of siege prevails, and orders have been
issued that the people who leave their houses do so
at the risk of being shot. Many frightened inhabt-
ants are fleeing from the city or barricadng them
selves in their homes. Others are maroOned in the
hotels, but the Strikers or revOlutiOnsts as they
may be called, are gathering in the streets and
the widest rumOrs are circulated.
Armed men are reported to be marching to their
aid from various quarters. Twelve thousand strik-
ers from the CapilOh works. sixteen miles away are
stated to have beateR q detachment Of troops told
on to deal with them and to be advancing on St.
Petersburg.
A bomb has been thrown among 3 regiment Of
OOssacks the Winter Palace and the revolution
lists are growing hourly bOlder.
There seems every prospect Of great revolution,
and this happy city is threatened With reign Of
terror that may equal that Of the French Revolution
The DOwager Empress, that relentless opponent
Of reform, wbO might parallel Louis XVI, has fed,
and the dynasty's one hope is that the troops are
still staunCh It is held in rebellion with man try
Their exists today in st. Petersburg body Of
men who look upon themselves as the future pro-
visiOna government of Russia. AS yet they are
political cphers, who hope that q sudden stroke Of
luck may provide them with the means to Overturn
the present regime and place the rein Of power in
their hands. II they succeed they WILL for the time
being, be identical with Russia. II they fail they
may, as they themselves admit wonder to Siberia
or deCend into the tomb.
''They are prepared TO respect Russian traditions
and pay interest punctualy on all loans heretofore
RegOtisted, and will leave nothing undOne to avoid
reputation, the curtailment Of interest or any
measures that would run counter to the obligations
undertaken by the imperial government but every
foreign loan contracted after Sunday Jan. % this
year, they viii unhesitating repudiate because no
nation can now lend to the Russian government in
good iath in ignorance OF the actthat the people
and bureaucracy struggling to discover which Of
them really represents the nation.
In victory Of the people over the government
should be but partial and the contitutional regime
has been substituted for an autocracy the represen
tatives Of the nation, who, in that case, will have
control the state purse will insist on the same
policy being carried By the National Assembly in
any and every case.
Therefore, the Russian people is resolved to
repudate all debts contracted by the autOracy from
the day when civil war broke out between the autoc
racy and the people.
'I transmit this important message in perfor-
nance Of my duty and without any further commen-
tary.o
In st. Petersburg there has beep formed body Of
men who regard themselves as constituting the fu-
ture provisional government Of Russia.
Fifteen or twenty Journalists and literary men
have formed themselves into True Jacobin Club,
and their numbers have been gradually increased
until now the society is composed Of about eighty
prominent Russians, including Maxim Gorky