Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-29
WASHINGTON AND LONDON TO ASSIST
Fire Adds New Tcrrors to Revolu- ttonary Movement-Yalta Un Cri- meal Prison Burned and All
 Police Stations Wrecked.

ttonary MOvement-Yalta Un Cri-
 meal Prison Burned and All
 Police Stations Wrecked.
 LONDON, March 20.-The latest and apparently the most definite move to- ward peace on the part of Russia is that country's request to NJ. Delcasse, the French minister for foreign af- fairs. to act as intermediary between the czar and the mikado. The French statesman has signified his willing ness, but is, however, convinced of the necessity of working in unison with Lord Lansdowne, the British foreign minister.
 A special dispatch from St. Peters burg says that Russia has outlined the conditions under which she is pre- pared to negotiate peace, and it is now stated with every semblance of au- thority that, thanks to the good offices of the United States and France, the question of peace had assumed practi- cal shape.
 From the Japanese left armies comes . report that the army near Mukden is clearing the battlefield, sorting the enormous quantities of Russian stores and materials captured and attending to the prisoners. 9Tl&
 The value of the captured war mate rial is placed at $1.750,600.
 Engineers are rapidly repairing the railroad bridge across the Hun river. Trains are now running to the Hun. They will reach Mukden in a few days.
 While peace rumors multiply the in- terior situation in Russia is growing worse rapidly. Incendiary fires have been started in the widely separated towns of Baku, Mimi Novgorod and Yalta, and armed bands of peasants are murdering and pillaging on all sides.
 So serious is the situation that Rus, sian imperial As fell a point on the St. Petersburg bourse.
 A Baku (Caucasia) dispatch says that the works of the Mantacheff Petroleum company and the Baku Petroleum works at Bibiebat are on fire.
 A report From Mini Novgorod, mid de Russia, says that a fire at the Mazoute grain depots has caused heavy losses. estimated at hundreds of thousands of rubles. The flames threaten to spread to the shipping.
 At Yalta, Crimea. southern Russia, the town has been set on fire i've times, the prison was burned to the ground and all the police stations were wrecked.
 Warships were sent to Yalta yester- day. and marines landed there as if in hostile country.
 A meeting held there was attended by thousands of workmen who adopt ed a resolution to petition the throne, first. for abrogation of laws limiting civil rights: second. free speech; third, freedom of the press: fourth, the right to strike: fifth, liberty of conscience. sixth. equal rights for all nationalities and religions: seventh. immediate con- clusion of peace with Japan, and eighth, popular representation in the assembly.
 The troops are arriving there from Simperfol to quell the riots.
 Disturbances in the Caucasus con- tinue. A gendarme was killed at Poti, ten people have been wounded at Gori, while at Suchum the police are power less to keep order. In the Shorapan district the peasants refuse to pay taxes or rent and have elected a se- cret committee to manage local affairs. Baron von Nolken. the chief of po- lice of Warsaw. who was wounded by the explosion of bomb on Sunday, is He received 12O separate cuts and scratches.