The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-26
What VIII the Issue Re?

Although on Monday evening we
we're officially informed that the in
surrection had been repressed in st.
Petersburg, several incidents have since
occurred that throw grave doubt on
the assurance.
On Tuesday a number Of workmenr
variously computed at from 10000 TO
%, 1000 men, who had assembled at hol-
pino, a town distant about fifteen miles
from the capital started for Tsarskoe-
Sclo, where the Car VAS supposed to
be. The poor wretches were still re-
luctant to believe that their Little
Father would refuse personally to
receive the humble petition Of his chill
dren. They were quickly undeceived,
for before they had advanced many
miles they were moved down merci-
lessly by force Of infantry and artil-
lery No estimate Of the number OF
killed Snd wounded has been published,
but according TO an officer who was
present at the scene OF butchery the
coniiding petitioners were drowned IN
a bath of blood
The second incident to which We refer
was the appointment by the Gar on
Tuesday OF General TnEPoFF, who was
lately the execrated chief Of the Moscow
police, 10 be Governor General OF 81.
Petersburg, with powers more nearly
absolute than any ever conferred upon
a subject, except on one previous occa-
sion. Why should such an exceptional
step be taken, If all danger OF revolution
in the capital was over? Another oc-
currence which We have in mind is the
fact that although on Monday night
three we'll Known writer's and two Town
| Councillors. who are also lawyers, were
arrested on the charge OF countenanclng
the revolt, a meeting of $50 barristers
and solicitors held on the following
! day did not hesitate TO pass a reso-
luton Of solidarity with the strikers,
! protesting against the action Of the
! Government in provoking hloodshed,
/ declining on their own part TO plead in
| the courts, and deciding 20 open a sub
scription in aid Of the propaganda. On
Wednesday St. Petersburg was placed
practically in a state OF siege, fact
hard 10 reconcile with the protested
confidence Of the authorities in the re-
establishment Of order.
Inasmuch, however. as the Imperial
Government seems to have collected in st,
| Petersburg from seventy-fve thousand
TO a hundred thousand soldiers, and in
asmuch as these have shown az yet no
concerted or marked unwillingress to
massacre civilians, We assume that the
first act OF the bloody drama is ended,
and that the terrorized capital must now
look for deliverance to Moscow and other
urban centres: and. above all, to orga-
nized rebellion on the part OF the teserv-
ists and in certain regiments OF the
standing army. That the worlmen OF
St. Petersburg, now transformed from
pious loyalists into savage revolution
lists, can rely on exterior sympathy and
cooperation is attested by kilograms,
not only from Moscow, the historical
and national. as distinguished from the
official. capital OF Russia. but also from
wilma, Saratoff, Odessa, Sevastopol
Reval, Kovno and Radon If violent
outbreaks should take place in these
and many other Russian cities, and II
the Poles, Firms and Armenians should
seize the occasion 10 rise. Il would be
impossible for the Government to cope
with such an alarming situation, e1-
cept by resorting to one Of two ex-
pedients Either almost all Of the re-
servists would have TO be called at once
Under the colors or else a large part Of
the army under General KURoPArKIN
would have to be recalled.
Could the reservists be trusted We
are not surprised TO hear that good
deal OF doubt on the subject exists in
official circles. The doubt seems war
ranted by the signs Of disafection which
have more thnn once been shown by
reservists during the last few weeks
and by the ominoUs news from Radon,
town Of Russian Poland, that when
en- outbreak of SYM hizers with the
ST. Petersburg sufferers took place there
4 body Of reservists broke OFT Of their
barracks and joined the excited populace
1t should be remembered that there
could have been no revolution in France
as an outcome Of the convocation Of the
States General but for the fact that the