Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-01-24
TROOPS HOLD CITY
St. Petersburg Revolutlonlsts
Form a Government.
WILL ASK AID FROM ENGLISH WORLD
Revolt Spreads TO Moscow and Sevas-
topoI, Where Great Dockynrds
Observation-Disclosures at Capital
TerrOrize by Slaughter.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 24.-The
| most startling feature in the Russian
situation is the news that several fac
tories in Moscow have closed and that
.he workmen in the old capital of Rus
sla are repeating the tactics of their
fellow wOrkmen of the new capital,
marching from shop to shop and mill
% mill. demanding that the establish
reported to be in Il state of great eX-
.itement over the news of the blood
she'd here, which has precipitated inn
mediately the strike that had been
planned for Wednesday.
Moscow has more workmen and less
Toops than st. Petersburg and besides
S Just now the heart of the liberal
movement, and the danger of bloodler
occurrences there than have been WIZ
iesSed here are prOportionately greater
A rising at Moscow is also more likely
% have greater results industriIlly ana
politically than that in ST. Petersburg.
According to private reports, the
workmcn in several other BIZ cllleS'
notably Kharkov. where large Iocolio-
i've works are located, already nave
completed plans for Il general uNpei
sion of work. Moreover. reports are
current that the WOrkmen, VINO other
wise would soon he forced PACK INTO
he shops or Starvc. have received as
mrancrS Of financial support from the
sources which hitherto have furnished
HE SincwS of war TO the liberal ma
evolutionary agitation. hut have not
before been in touch with the labor
movement. If the strike becomes gen
aral I'LL over Russia. and especially if
be railroads are drawn in. ii might
Immediately force the nation TO make
peace with Japan.
II is said here that as the outcome of
he meetings of the Reform party of
iorEy, .Annensky. Arsenipif and others
and their adherents Il body of men has
1ccn constituted who regard them
selves as the future provisional gov
,rnment of Russia. AS yet they are
political cipherS. but they hope some
sudden stroke of luck will enable them
o overturn the existing regime. and at
,hc same time they recognize the fact
hat nonsuccess may lead them to Sibe-
ia OF the tomb.
They have decided in conjunction
NTH the strike leaders to appeal to
English speaking peoples throughout
he world for financial assistance to
2nable them to continue the struggle
or freedom.
y report this morning says that the
strikers intend to storm the market
III NaSsili ostrOv and seize the pro-
riSions there.
Not the shooting down of ~defcnseless
men and women nor the protection by
hOuSandS of soldiers of palaces, shops,
telephones and railways constitutes the
noteworthy result of Il rather n sided
struggle. but the flight of the imperial
'amily from Tsarskoc Selo after three
md Il half days of secret hiding and
'requent change Of dwelling from pal
nee to palace.
Tho emperor hurriedly left Tsarskoe
Sclo when the news came that the
strikers from Kolpino had chosen that
palace as the goal of their march.
Despite the ~reaSsuring statements of
Ourt dignitarics and military men, the
Ear is alleged to have lost his nerve
Immediately and TO have announced his
attention to repair to Peterhoff, which
IS his summer residence.
The soldiers arc beginning to frater-
aizc with the people. a guard of ma
lines stationed on the quay having re-
fused to fire when ordered to do so by
heir officers.
The streets Of the city are in COM
?letc darkness. The tramp and clatter
Of soldiers armed to the teeth who pa
troll them mingle with the sound of oc-
taSiOnal shots and the d%ctonation of
deeper and more sinister explosions.
Tor revolution, challenged with massa-
re. has replied with dynamite.
Everywhere in the suburbs where
here are soldiers or public buildings
9ombs are being thrown.
y state of siege prevails. and orders
have been issued that the people who
leave their houses do 50 ut the risk of
leing shot.
A bomb was thrown among a regf-
ncnt Of Cossacks near the Winter pal
nee, the reyolutiOnists hourly growing
bolder.
There seems every prospect Of n great
revolution, and this unhappy city is
threatened with 4 reign of terror that
may equal that of the French rcvolu-
ton.
At Kolpino, twelve miles mp the river,
q body of Workmcn who had started for
ST. Petersburg TO join the strikers
were stopped and fired upon by sol
hicrS. Accounts as to the number kill
ed or wounded conflict.
Conflicts between the military and
the police have been resumed. In the
Ncv$ky prospect the troops fired on
the 'crowds.
1t is rumored that Emperor Nicholas
will issue a manifesto today declaring
81. Petersburg to be in Il state of siege.
The whole city is held nv an ormed