The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-04-06
SHADOW OF
REBELLION.
Terrorist Revolution is Ex-
pected to Break Out
AT THE RUSSIAN EASTER
Authorities Are Alarmed--Troops Are
Now Being Held in Their Barracks
to Protect St. Peters
burg.
AT THE RUSSIAN EASTER

st. Petersburg, April 6.The prospects
of general upheaval of the city and
country with the advent of spring in
crease daily. Evidence accumulates that
all the radical forces are acting in uni
son and awaiting signal, which it is
generally believed will be given shortly
after the Russian Easter.
The terrorists are showing great ac-
tivity and reports from all over the
country prove that the yorkmen who
IN many cases have been formulating
petty demands which no sooner are
granted than they are succeeded BY 9TH
ers, are acting under instructions from
the revolutionary leaders, who are only
biding their time.
The employers frankly admit that it
is impossible to try to continue their
business and some of them have already
shut down. The people are plainly be-
coming panicky and the authorities all
so cannot conceal their alarm.
The guard regiments which usually
60 TO camp in April will bcretained in
st. Petersburg it is announced, until
June, ostensibly in order to allow the
camps to be cleaned in view of the
danger of cholera which is regarded as
being SO serious that the sanitary au-
thorities have ordered the immediate
cleaning of the streets, sewers, cess
pools and canals Of the capital and have
issued specific instruction to household
ers especially in the poorer districts
where the people live in cellars.
The dilatory tactics of the govern
ment in celebrating the scheme for pop
niar representation provided for in the
imperial rescript tends to intensity the
acuteness of the coming crisis. as the
liberals are firmly convinced that the
real purpose Of the bureaucracy if the
measure is finally passed is to smother
the whole reform movement. Over 500
municipal councils and public institu-
tions have already petitioned for parti-
cipation in the task of working out the
project
An intimation that it is proposed to
send commission abroad to study the
machinery of foreign parliaments which
would require months has raised am
other cutlery. The NCyoe Vremya warns
the government that the situation is
too dangerous for such manoeuvres, de-
claring that unless the government
forms an assembly and promptly an
nounces the date of the elections, it
will be impossible to restore even
measure of public confidence and the
government viii lose all chance Of SCI
curing the support and sympathy of the
liberals who do not believe in violence
when the disorders which are predict.
ed for the mediate future break out.
In the meantime what is now called the
constitutional press is exposing the
corruption in various branches Of the
government
From documentary evidence the most
rotten state of affairs is shown to exist
on the Siberian railroad AS the mill
tary authorities control transport act
ion on the Siberian railroad the gen
eral staff is issuing permits for every
car and merchants desiring to ship
goods to 1rkutsk, Eastern Siberia OF
further east are compelled to buy such
certificates, regular traffic in them
having been exposed, permits bringing
from $500 to $500, the authorities then
shipping the goods as munitions of war
while the latter are sidetracked. A case
is cited where car remained on a side
track from January to May because the
consignee declined to pay any more
money to the military authorities,