Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29
RUSSIAN ARMY
NEARS REVOLT
OFFICERS ENRAGED BY THEIR
PART IN MASSACRE
CAPITAL CITY OF REVOLUTION
Grand Dueal coterie Linked czar's
Fate With Their Own and De-
mand for New Emperor Is
Universal

Special Cable to The Herald.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 21,-Great
events impend both in international
Russia and in connection with the far
eastern war, no one doubts. What
form they will take and in what order
they will occur, it is impossible TO
forecast at present.
The grand ducal coterie has found
that the control of the emperor is py
no means secure and they are quite
capable of adopting desperate meas
ures for retaining their power. They
did so Sunday, for it is now well known
that the avoidance of a tragedy would
have been the easiest matter possible.
Instead the authorities tried to create
the appearance of revolt when none
was intended and deliberately slaugh-
tered loyal unarmed men, worlen and
children. The imperial murderers sue
ceeded in one of their objects only too
well-they have linked the czars fate
with their own. Otherwise, quite
aside from a moral question, they have
committed the highest blunder of mod
ern times. They hastened the doom of
their regime and probably their per-
sonal fate as well.
Demand New Emperor
st. Petersburg today is a city of rev.
a
sides is for a new emperor. Since
Sunday the people of the capital have
spoken their minds openly and frankly
for the first time in their lives. Cover
nor General Trepoff If he desires to
arrest all disloyalists must imprison
the entire populace.
The brains of Russia will know how.
to make sedition effective. There is
abundant information that insur-
rectionary views are rapidly spreading
among the Officers of the army.
They know their comrades in Man
churia are suffering through systemat-
ic robbery by those who ordered Sum
days massacre. They resent the
craven attitude of the czar; they are
exasperated beyond measure by the
universal social ostracis1h imposed up
on them by the inhabitants of st.
Petersburg during the past three days
for the part they took in this weeks
bloody work, and their feelings will
soon find a more serious expression
than was shown in the military plot
which turned the charge of shrapnel
on the imperial party ten days ago.
The military stroke of some nature is
in fact one of the probabilities of the
near future. There will be no at
tempts at concerted attack on the
present regime unless a large propor-
ton of the military join.
Series of outrages Expected
1t would be the sheerest folly to at
tempt it. There will probably be out
RACES in quick succession. There is
not the slightest sign as to what form
the attempt to depose the czar may
take. 1t will not be disclosed, OF
course. A sort of dictatorship may be
designed to replace the present
dynasty.
Revolt if it comes under military
auspices will not take the form of a
republic or of autocracy.. No man
has been marked out for the leader'hip,
but the army knows whom 1t can crust.
Little information after the develop
ment of the demonstration in the prov
inces is available here but all the re-
ports are very pessimistic and the atti-
tude of the central authorities suggests
the gloomiest conclusions.
There is no official pointing to an
early peace, but there is not the slight
est doubt that even at present the au-
thorities have made a sudden decision
in this direction If Gen. Kuropatkin's
intending move proves successful. TO
sum up the situation, Japan won her
greatest victory on. Sunday in st.
Petersburg's streets. The present
government of Russia is In desperate
straits. An important victory in Man
churia might prolong its eyistence for
a brief space but its downfall is GER
tain.
The most serious feature of the strike
situation is it's continuous extension in
the Baltic provinces and in Poland
Strikers are cutting telegraph wires and
interrupting communication, and fears
are expressed of most serious disorders,
especially in Poland.
MOSCOW STRIKERS ARE
PRIMING WITH VODKA;