Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-08
COUNT Wife IS
LOSING HEART.
Prominent Military Commanders
Everywhere Are Requesting
Leave to Resign.
PUBLIC CONFIDENCE WANING.
noubted Whether Government Can
Weather the storn--Ncw
Mutinles Reported,

ronaor Dec. s.--The correspondent
~ the Daily Mail IN ST Petersburg, III
dispatch sent by way Of Eydtkuhnen,
East Prussia. says
prominent military commanders
.,erywhere are requesting permission
A. ,esign. The minister Of war him.
.Af Lieut. Gen. Rudigerp has asked
,n., omperor to allow him to retire. The
minister Of the interior, NJ. Durnovo,
and others have followed the example
~ the minister Of war Count Witte
stands alone, but even he Is losing
heart
pl-RTJC CONFIDENCE WANING,
s. Petersburg. Wednesday night
NC. 6, via Eydtkuhnen. east Prussia
ne, Public confidence In the gov
,rnment's ability to weather the grow
ing storm is waning fast. Premier
Vitts seems powerless to cope with the
new element Of danger. The revolu-
tjop "a rising on every hand. New
,rutIuies among the troops are con-
stgntly reported, and the lawlessness IN
che country IL increasing Whenever
tho uorkmen's Organization present II
united front. as they did last night.
the premier Is compelled 10 strike col
ors
81 now appears that comrades Of So
sooG the railroad engineer OF Sa-
nara whose condemnation to death
threatened the country with a general
rsuroad strike. Independently organ
t1s the strike on the trans-Caspian line
from Aloxandravsk to Tashkend.
The governor general OF KuIshka.
who exercises plenary powers on the
Afghan frontier without consulting
with the St. Petersburg authorities,
convened a court and sentenced
Sokolon to death. The premier, as a
result If the action Of the executive
committee Of the railroad employees
union IN preparing for general strike
unless the sentence was reversed be.
fore midnight. Dec. g. was compelled
TO get NJ. Nemrehadeff, tho minister
ot communications to employ the rail-
road telegraph Ia forward stay Of
execution, which fortunately arrived IN
time,
Had the man been shot nothing
would have prevented universal
strike This danger for the moment
has again passed, but the weapon al
ways hangs over the head Of the gov
eminent as threat against any new
arbitrary act.
The immediate danger confronting
the government is a concerted attack
On the countrys credit, The public
fear that the government can be
forced 10 suspend gold payment In.
rreases daily. This would be the
crowning achievement Of the revolu-
tionists. who are satisfied that with the
attending financial crash the whole
house would come tumbling down
The chances Of driving the govern
ment into bankruptcy. they profess to
believe, would be materially increased
if the confidence of foreign holders Of
Russian obligations was undermined
and the news that the French luves-
tors. who hold four-fifths OF Russia $
immense foreign Indebtedness, were
unloading caused considerable jubila-
ton hv the revolutionists
At the same time II created a panic
on the bourse, imperial tours falling to
. fives TO s4i2 and the government lot
teries to 295. Banking and Industrial
shares went down With rush, Putol-
IN going from 90 cents to SO cents an
iron stocks, like Kolomo and Moscow.
which month ago We're quoted at
1850. closing at $3.50, The savings
banks were subjected to "A run, and al