The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-06
London That the Kaiser Has a
German Fleet Waiting.
BALTIC PEASANTS REVOLT
Government Worried by Armed Uprising
Against Feudal Barons Along the
Sea coast--TeIegraph Strike
Is Unbroken.

London, Dec 6 Dispatches reaching
here from st. Petersburg, via the Rus
sian frontier, state that there is we'll
defined rumor now circulating in the
Russian capital that the car is making
preparations to fly from the country.
Baron Alvensleben, the German am
bassador, Is known to have presented an
autograph letter to the car from the
kaiser within the last day or so, and ii
is reported that German squadron has
been seen in the Baltic off the Russian
coast. Whether or not this means that
Emperor William stands ready to help
bis imperial colleague to reach Germany
in safety is, of course, impossible to
state; but the fact il Recalled that dur
ing the great crisis last month German
torpedo boats, stationed at regular in
#tervals along the Russian Baltic coast,
kept up wireless communication between
Russia and the imperial palace at Peter
hot, where the car was then In seclu-
sion.
The situation in the Baltic provinces
is so critical that it is understood that
the government will create a governor
generalship for this section, where the
Esthonians, Lithuanians, and other ma
tive races are in armed revolt against
the barons of German descent, who still
exercise sort of feudal rule over them.
st. Petersburg remains quiet, but the
telegraphers' strike is still unbroken, and
the greatest tension prevails.
Soldiers and employees of other gov
ar. tof
Ito deliver portions of the vast acclmu-
lation OF mail. The telegraph operators
met Saturdays threat to discharge them
Sunday unless they returned. to work
by resolving to prosecute the strike I'M
It'll their demands are satisfied.
The League of Leagues, which 10 is
suing DEGREES like yeritable provision
al government, has openly defied the pre-.
fect's warnings to walking delegates and
agitators that any attempt to persuade
employees to leave their work would
lead to their arrest, and is issuing q
Icounter-p proclamation, warning not only
the Russian, but the Danish, operators
| to work at their peril
Count Witte Is now convinced that
1.-THE emperor, by aceeding to the demand
| for universal suffrage, may still find a
leommon ground on which the govern
Iment, the noderates, and the extreme
elements can stand. If this fails to
Istay the headlong march of events, the
proclamation of q ready made eonstitu
ton might be tried as the last card
Then nothing would remain except tbs
Iproclamaton Of dictatorship.
Competent Judges of the situationtbe
lIeve that dictatorship, while it might
stem the rising flood temporarily, would
Ionly increase the dimensions OF the ulti
mate cataclysm.
| Bucharest, Roumania, Dec. 6.-Many
wealthy refugee families from 0desss
land Kishinef have reached Jassy. They
report an alarming spread Of the agrariar
movement. Their train was several times
ATTACKED by maFauders at BessarabiaI
Villages between Odessa and Ungeni.
| Warsaw. Russian Poland, Dec. 6.--Tht
lexecuive committee of the Railroad EN-
Iployees' Union has telegraphed to al
stations of the Russian railroads urging
| the men to begin q general strike a.
midnight unless the sentences of deatl
Ipassed BY the court-martial at Sanari
lon SokoIoif and the other local leader
of the recent railroad strike at Samart
Iare reversed before that hour.
| The abolition of the minor state o
martial law was pazetted yesterday
morning, and Poland il now completed,
freed from military rule.
The authorities have prohibited pro
Iposed meeting of the striking post ans
Telegraph employees. The disorganiza
ton Of business can be Judged by TIL
fact that while before the strike TIL
Warsaw Office handled $4,000 telegram
ldaily the office now handles only 1900
| Advices from Sebastopol say that TIN
government has ordered the mutineer
to be tried by court-martial in accord
ance with the procedure in use in wa
time.
/ Information from Moscow says that
Icommittee of the Bourse Is trying t
Iarrange settlement of the TELEGRAPH
Istrike.