Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-14
CONDITION IN.
BAKU DESPERATE
Armenian and Tartar Fac
tons Are Beyond
Control.
SOLDIERS ARE POWERLESS
Have Been Forced to Withdraw From
Suburb-viceroy of Caucasus Has
Dispatched Troops But They viii
Be Unable to Cope With Situation

st. Petersburg, Sept. 9.-The upris,
ing in the Baku district, according to
the latest dispatches, has apparently
passed the crisis, though the situa-
ton Is still serious and order is far
from having been restored. In the oil
districts and even in the city of Baku,
the belligerent factions are taking
every opportunity to commit murder
and to apply the torch. Troops are
steadily arriving in the districts, the
number of reinforcements to reach
there up to noon yesterday being g.
900 and others are on the way.
st. Petersburg, Sept S.-The des-
perate condition of affairs at Baku
is shown by telegram from the gov
ernor of Baku, who has sent an ur-
gent dispatch to Tifiis saying that
his troops are surrounded by Tar
tars and will inevitably be over
whelmed unless Immediately relieved
Baku, Caucasia, Sept. S.-The prin-
cipal fighting is not in Baku itself,
but at Balakhan, where hundreds
have been shot by the infantry and
artillery and where one thousand
were killed or wounded during des-
peraJe attack on the military camp
and provision depots. The troops
sustained few casualties. A large
number of workmen barricaded them
selves in the Balakhan hospital. The
soldiers began the attack with rifle
fire and fhnn fol
and completed their work with bay
onet.
Tiflis, Caucasia, Sept. 8.-The man
ager of the Mantashoff company tele
graphs from Baku that the Ribiebat
plants have been burned out, that
the depots of the Caspien railroad
have been destroyed, and that the
Christian workmen are surrounded
by thousands of armed Tartars.
st. Petersburg, Sept. THE news
from Baku received up to the time
of filing this dispatch is of the gloom
lest character. The Armenian and
Tartar warning factions now appear
to be entirely beyond control The
streets of Baku seem to be unsafe
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troops to be inadequate to restrain
the anarchial tendencies of the COM
batants in the surrounding regions.
According to reliable reports the
troops have been forced to withdraw
from the suburb of Balakhan, where
on Tuesday the rioters set fire to the
oil works, and that place is now in the
hands of the Tartars who have COM
pleted the work of destruction and
who it is said massacred the inhab-
itants who did not accompany the
troops in their retirement. Telephone
and railroad communications between
Baku and the suburban oil centers
is cut and late last night it was re-
ported that the wires into Baku were
The viceroy of the Caucasus has dis
patched reinforcements of troops from
Tifiis, but owing to the conditions
throughout the whole of the southern
part of the Causasus with these rein
forcements the troops will be mad
equate to cope with the situation. In
the suburban region, the fighting is
desperate and the soldiers are using
artillery.
Representatives of the oil industry
here are utterly respondent and they
declare that on the basis of the tele-
grams so far received more than half
of the industry in the Baku region
has been wiped out and that the fire
is making rapid inroads into the re-
mainder of the oil territory.
The Baku representative of a prom
inent oil company has telegraphed to
his St. Petersburg headquarters as
follows:
1T is no longer a question Of saving
out property, but one of getting out
alive"