New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-07
SEEKING ZEMSTYOS' AID.
Count Witte Receives Delegates
The Strike Unbroken.

st, Petersburg, Tuesday night. Dec 5 tvia
Helsingfors, Dec. 6).-Tne situation does NOS
clear The worst features Of the extension %
the troubles IN the army are coming IN slowly
from diverse regions The mutinies at ECieff and
voronezh are not yet qlened. and It is now re-
ported that outbreaks have occurred among
various regiments in Poland.
Premier Whites task is hourly becoming
harder. and many persons believe that his down.
fall is imminent. The reactionary influences
are now openly camoring for repression and q
dictator. In the mean time the distracted Pre-
mier, upon whose shoulders everything falls.
continues HIS negotiations with the zemstvo
leaders whose aid in the present crisis he re-
CARDS as vital The Moscow deputation this
afternoon formally presented to the Premies
the resolutions Of the Zemstvo congress, accom~
panied by explanation of their views. Tbs
Premier intends to prepare formal reply in
writing to avoid a possible rnisundsr~
standing.
Another government note appealing to the
people to have patience has been issued. Is
points out again the necessity for time TO
place the old by laws and promises the
issuance of temporary statutes covering the
guarantees Of the manifesto and making them
operative until the National Assembly meets
The government made effort to resume thu
post and telegraph services to-day, but it was
dismal failure. as far the latter was con-
cerned. The office was opened Inder military
protection and there were sufficient clerks
duty-to go through the form of receiving teIa-
grams. but not one was transmitted and not
a single wire, with the exception Of the line
to Tsarskoe- SeIo. operated by military telegraph
ers was working. Some mail. however. was
delivered by volunteers under the escort OF
police and gendarnes. The mail wagons and
postoffices were heavily guarded by Cossacks.
Many prominent persons, among them being NJ
de Martens, rendered their services as strike
breakers.
The operations of firms doing business abroad
and in the interior have been completely sus-
pended The banks and Bourse are without for
eign and interior quotations, making it impOssi-
BILE to negotiate the sale or purchase OF indus
trials, but insiders supported Imperial As which
closed to-day at IS.
The revolutionists were quick TO take ad-
vantage of the waning confidence in the ability
Of the government to maintain gold payments
They industriously circulated proclamations.
among the workmen and peasants. calling on
them not to accept paper money as # soon
would be YalueIess. The better classes. they
said, were converting bonds into cash and OBJ
tanning exchange against the governments for
etgn balances This was bound to accelerate thu
dreaded financial crash.
The so called landlords congress at Moscow,
which was composed OF representatives OF a
number Of reactionary organizations. like the
Banner Bearers and Holy Aliance OF Russian
Patriots seemed to have the cue to attack
Premier Witte. Detailed mail reports Of the
sessions show that the congress bitterly as
sailed the Premier, who the speakers said, was
leading Russia to perdition. and pronounced for
the Emperor and the antiquated zemsky soSor.
The telegraphers tried to meet this afternoon
at the hall of the Technical Society to discuss
the ways and means TO keep up the strike, but
they were compelled to dispense By a police
captain, backed up by a squadron OF Cossacks.
on the ground that they were violating the reg
ulations.
The League Of Leagues has called on tbs
workmen and on all friends OF freedom to give 4
days wages to the cause OF the teIegraphers.
and has warned the railroad telegraphers that
they must cease TO transmit any except service
messages.
Father Gapon continues TO preach TO tho
worlxnen against a revolution. saying that thu
strike tactics are sure to result in reaction and
jeopardize the freedom purchased by blood. Hs
warns the Revolutonists and Socialists that
they cannot arouse the peasants by their pc-
litical demands but more likely to raise Up
counter revolution. He says:
A hundred fanaticaI priests with church ham
ners and ikons might easily arouse the black
millions Of the country and overwheIm you In
tellectuals of the cities amid such horrors as the
world has never witnessed.
As example of the wild stories credited
here the "Caletta" to-day prints rumor To ths
effect that the United States battleship Oregon
is in the Baltic on account of the recent assault
Mr.. Bliss "a the streets near the Arrestct5I
Embassy.
The Oregon was last reported at Cavitt. F. T.
November 20. She had at that time ben
ordered home and is 10 be placed out of com-
mission Tor thorough overhauIns.
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