The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-12-26
Impressive Demonstration in Industrial
Section Of the Capital
The WOrkmen Seem Quiet. but Deter
mined-Goyernment Makes q Test
OF its Ability to Run a Train to Ber-
lin-Thousands Of Men Left Their
Work at Twelve O'CIock-Moscow
Cut on From ST. Petersburg-No
Communication With the Provinces.

st. Petersburg. December 21.-(2:10
p M. Since noon today the streets
have been filled with troops especially
those in the industrial sections. The
railroad stations are in possession of
the military.
Wholesale arrests of the leaders of
the workmen We're made last night.
Tt is reported that the police include in
their captures the members of the see
ond workmen's council who were
placed in the fortress of St. Peter and
st. Paul with the members of the first
council, who We're arrested Saturday
night. A third council however,
promptly took the place of the second.
Moscow is already cut off from ST.
Petersburg and with the provinces
generally there vas no communication
this morning.
According to the latest information
the Lithuanian insurrection has extend
ed into the province of Vitebsk. across
the borders of Livonia. At Kohun-
kusen the chief of police and his as
sistants were tried by a revolutionary
tribunal and executed.
It turns out that Tukum was only
surrounded after a severe fight which
lasted for twelve hours. The insurrec-
tionists are fortiying the town by
throwing UP entertainments and by
digging pits. The trenches We're taken
by storm. both sides losing heavily.
The latest information from Khar-
koff says that 10000 revolutionaries
are under arms and that troops are
being concentrated for the purpose Of
~re-capturing the city.
The strike started here at noon very
tamely. In the center Of the city the
shops were not closed. the proprietors
having received guarantees that if they
remained open they would be given
ample protection and that any deputa-
ton Of strikers seeking by threats or
force to compel the closing of the
shops would be Instantly arrested.
There was, however, an impressive
demonstration in the industrial sec
ton. The main interest in the strike
of the railroad men conferred in the
Warsaw station, where the government
was to make a test of it's ability by
moving a train for Berlin. The depot
vas packed with troops. Promptly at
noon there was wild hurrah accompa-
MED by the oar Of escaping steam and
a few moments later the railroad men
walked out of h yard in a body. The
authorities however, were prepared
and after a delay Of ten minutes a To-
connective manned by soldiers of a rail-
road battalion backed into the station
and was coupled to the waiting train
which was crowded with people seek
ing to depart from h unhappy coun-
try. Lines of soldiers with fixed bayo-
nets fanked the train and an official
with four soldiers entered h carri-
ages and thoroughly searched them in
order to ascertain if suspicious persons
were on board. AS the official and his
escort left the train a signal was given
and 20 soldiers entered the baggage
cars. while another detachment was
scattered through the carriages. n
train then pulled out. An extra car
loaded with w~recking apparatus was
attached to the train to be used in
case of accidents between stations. The
mail car vas missing. At other sta
tons similar precautions were taken.
In the manufacturing districts be-
yond the Warsaw and Narva gates, in
the SchuIsselburg district and in the
sections on both sides of the Neva. the
workmen generally obeyed the sum-
mons to strike and promptly at IL
o'clock thousands of them emerged to
the street.
Police, Cossacks, soldiers of the
guard. regiments and other patrols
We're everywhere, but so far as report
ed, no collision marked the Inaugural
ton of the strike. The workmen SEEM
ed very quiet, but determined. h
men of each factory selected in ad-
n a certain number to act as pick
cts for the purpose of preventing any
attempt to introduce strike breakers
into the factories.
st. Petersburg, December 20-(Wed-
nesday1 6.55 p. m. The governments
advices show that all the trains. with
troops, which enter the Baltic pro-
vinces are being stopped by the insur-
gents. 4 number of Cossacks in II
car were captured and disarmed be-
yond Dorpat.
The town of Tuckum has been re-
taken from the insurgents by Russian
troops.