The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-25
VIEWED WITH ALARM.
British Press and Public Look foI
Change In Russia.

British Press and Public LOOK 1OI
Change In Russia.
London, Jan. 25.-The foreign Of
fee views the situation in Russia
with alarm. It believes that while
the present risings will be put down
the affair Of Sunday at St. Petersburg
is certain to bring about a change in
the form of government The Asso-
ciated Press learns that the foreign
! office would welcome a Russian gov
eminent with which 1t could enter
into a treaty similar to the Anglo
French agreement, feeling that a con
tract with the present regime would
be re~pudiated at will. But fears are
entertained of a revolution which
might result in international compli-
cations. The remarks or war Secre-
tary ArnOld-FOroSter at last
night When he expressed the sympathy
of the people of the United Kingdom
with the people of Russia are exciting
considerable comment coming from a
cabinet minister. He seemed to voice
the general suspicion that the British
government has of Russian bureau
cracy. Mr.. Arnold-Foroster also made
the astounding statement that II
would be a bold man who would say
whether this movement would be
likely to help or hurt the British ma
ton, but 1--WE must be on our guard"
The British press as a whole axe
a no less gloomy view. The papers
have been given up exclusively since
Sunday to alarmist reports from Rus
STA, hostile articles and scathing edi-
torials on t h one OF the
widest terms used for the affair of
Sunday and the Russian emperor and
his government are generally COM
pared to beasts at bay"
The whole discussion of the situa-
ton in Russia serves again to reveal
the poorly disguised hostility of the
British press to everything Russian.
The dispatches to the London papers
all report the conditions prevailing in
Russia to be worse than the Asso-
cfated Press accounts. The Russian
official figures of the killed and
wounded are stigmatized as ludicrously
official. The number of slain reported
here in Mondays papers ranged from
1000 to 5000. One prominent paper
announced the dead alone numbered
1000 and another said 5000. The
Associated Press figures 500, given on
Monday are now considered at the
embassies here as the maximum.
Exaggerations are noticed in most of
the reports. A notable instance is a
long account of an alleged mutiny of
sailors of the Black sea nehet and a
detailed account of an incendiary fire
at the Sevastopo1 works which later
was contradicted by the Associated
Press correspondent Many articles
are appearing in the papers and re-
views by prominent authorities on
Russia arguing the certain success of
the revolution but they are inspired
more by the hope of the writer's than
by facts.
Prince Observation-Disclosures, a cousin
of the Russian minister of the interior
n second secretary of the embassy
here, said to the Associated Press:
cit is certain that last Sundays
events at st. Petersburg are grossly
exaggerated in all the European press.
I am sure normal tranquility will o o
be restored"
The prince expressed nc surprise
that the emperor had declined to re-
cefve q deputation Of a hundred
thousand workmen who pleaded
among other demands for the separa-
ton of the church from the state.