The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-02-22
L00I|NG POLISH CAPITAL
Strikers and Drunken. MODS Strike
Terror to Warsaw Citizens
TROOPS WOUND BRITISH C0NSlL

Attacked by Hussars EnSiand's Represents
tstive is Carried TO Hospital Bleeding
From Sabre Cuta-Stores md Eesid-
ences Broke 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 Tice-Consul, Mr.. Mucukain. in
Marshal KoTski street. Two hussars
rushed at him with their swords, in.
ficting severe cuts across his face and
lower lip. Dripping with blood Mr..
Mucukain was conveyed to the hospi,
tai. 30.
"The British Consul General, Mr..
Murray, had a narrow escape from
being similarly run down in Wierzoova
street. It appears that the incidents
were due to q company-gof 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 swashbuckIing
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 fighting the
wrecked and d%istraught, city pauses
to see what night will bringforth."
Describing the pillaging Of, stores, the
correspondent says:
"Many put chalk crosses on their
doors or lighted ikons in their win
dows, and thus secured their safety.
! The rioters paused before the sacred
mob drowned the church bells. 3 ;
SIN several cases soldiers fred on
looting mobs,. and in one case, in a
working class suburb, they fired a can
non shot. hoping to dispense the crowd.
Intermittent firing was proceeding
there all day.
Hundreds Of shops were wrecked
and several stores were burned. Prob
ably a few score were killed. The am
bulances;w were busy all day.
"Theresare alarming rumors 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 outrages OF the British
Consul General and Vice-Consul at
Warsaw.
The Daily T%elegraph's st. Petersburg
dispatches give an unconfirmed rulnor
that roughs attacked the British Con-
sulate at Warsaw .
= A dispatch to the Daily Graphic from
Sevastopol said:
In consequence OF the gravity Of
the situation here the Government has
invested the naval and military COM
manders with full powers to .repress
disorders. -.}-t .-.r 80 -
GOver 900 arrests have oeen made"
Vienna. Austria.-A. telegram from
Czestochowa, Russian Poland, report
ed that a bomb was thrown in the cav
airy barracks there. and that many
soldiers were wounded.
The act is supposed to have been in
revenge for brutality in dispensing 4
workmen's meeting.
Other dynamite outrages are report
ed to, have occurred in the neighbour
hood of Lodz. Asgendarme is report
ed to have been Killed. Z ..
st. Petersburg. Russia. = The situa-
ton in Poland became Increasingly
threatening. especially in Warsaw and
LODI. In the latter place it was re-
ported 0 1000 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 were bet-
ter organized and more serious thau
here. ~.
A strike of raborers, clerks. bank Off
Gals and servants has broken out at
Gomel.
There was great Indignation at Sara
toff because a Cossack patrol merci-
lessly beat boys With whips as they
were leaving school, many Of them be-
inc terribly punished.