The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-27
FEARS OF A REVOLUTION.
Foreign Office in England Views the
Situation in st. Petersburg With
Alarm.

London, January 25.-rne foreign Of
flee views the situation in Russia with
alarm. 1t believes that while the pres
ent risings will be put down, the affair
of Sunday at st. Petersburg is certain
to bring about change in the form
of government The Associated Press
learns that the foreign Office would well
come a Russian government with which
it. could enter into treaty similar 10
the Anglo-French agreement, feeling
that a contract with the present regime
would be repudiated at will. But fears
are entertained of a revolution which
might result in interna tionaI compli-
cationS.
The remarks of War Secretary Ar
nold-Forster at Croydon last night
when he expressed the sympathy OF the
people of the united kingdom with the
people Of Russia, are exciting consider
able comment, coming from a cabinet
minister He seemed to voice the gen.
eral suspicion that the British govern.
ment has of Russian beaurocracy. Mr.
Arnold Forster also made the astound-
ing statement that it would be bold
man who would say whether this move
! ment would be likely to help or hurt the
British nation, but I'VE must be on
our guard"
The British press as a whole takes a
no less gloomy view. The papers nave
been given up almost exclusively since
Sunday to alarmist reports from Rus
sia. hostile articles and scathing edl-
| torials on the Massacre one of the
mildest terms used for the affair of Sun
day and the Russian emperor and his
government are generally compared
| to 'tBeasts at Bay"
The whole discussion of the situation
| in Russia serves again to reveal the
! poorly disguised hostility of the Brit
ish press to everything Russian. The
dispatches to the London papers all re-
port the conditions prevailing in Rus
sia to be worse than the Associated
Press accounts. The Russian official
figures of the killed and wounde arc
| stigmatized as "Ludicrously official"
BIG DEMONSTRATION EXPECTED,
| Helsingfors, Finland, January %
| Cossacks are patrolling the streets OF
this city. A big demonstration is ex-
pected tonight, upon the arrival OF
Firms who had been expelled from the
country and who were recently given
| permission to return.
| DEMONSTRATION AT HEISING-
FORS.
Helsingfors, Finland, January 25. -
| Although the crowds on the streets
were smaller tonight, there was severe
| fighting, Cossacks and police firing
| their revolvers. Some thirty persons
| were wounded, of whom nine We're
taken to the hospital. Three are Sc
| vere.y wounded. The demonstration Is
slackening.
A PANIC IN A KISCHINEFF
| THEATRE.
| Kischineff, January Pa sedttious
| demonstration during the performance
led to a panic in a theatre here IarI
night. A crisis in the hostility toward
the government was raised In the
crowded auditorium by incendiary
proclamations which were showered
from the gallery. The audience be-
came panic stricken and some time
elapsed before order was restored
Twenty arrests were made including
four Jewish soldiers.
GENERAL STRIKE AT REVAL
Reval, Russia, January pa general
strike was called here today. All the
works are closed.