Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-10-28
Russian Officials See Only One
Way TO Put Down the
uprisings.
TRGPOrf SURRENDERS To MOB
He Allows the Men to Meet Despite
His Threats to shoot-Severai Per.
sons Already Fall Victims to Sol.
diers' BuIlets-Troops Are Pouring
Into ST. Petersburg.
NV Associated press.n

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ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 27.-That
The present situation cannot end with.
out bloodshed is the conviction pre-
willing in the higher government cir.
clcs. The governor of Kieff has been
instructed to take all necessary mea.
snres Ia restore order
One of the most prominent mem.
hers Of the IGmperor's council said to-.
day:
Blood Must Flow.
'fhc situation is Il srevious and
painful one and see no way out
of il except by the employment Of
armed force. Please do not misun.
derstand me. look upon the pros
pect with tears. but il is becoming
more and more evident that the troops
viii he compelled TO fire. can soc
no other possible outcome
THE revolutionsis and terrorists are
absolutely bent on forcing n conflict
upon MS and nothing we can do viii
satisfy them, The extension of the
suffrage and the right of assembly will
be- nothing 10 them. They are deter.
mined to have bloodshed, and we can.
not avoid the issue
1T Is Il frightful disease from whc'
Russia is suffering and, sad and Pain
Inl as il is. the government must act
with force
Witte With the Gar
Count Witte spent almost the entire
day with the Emperor at Peterhof
and he has not confided to his col.
leagues whether he intends 10 take
he ministry of the interior of the
ministry of finance or no portfolio Mt
all.
Trepof Backs Down.
Realizing that any attempt to Inter
1cic with the monster meeting at the
university would inevitably lead TO a
bloody outbreak, General Trepoff, who
announced during the afternoon that
lie intended TO prevent the assembly,
instructed the police 10 close their
eyes To the fact and the meeting,
and 10000 persons passed off without
II conflict.
The troops stationed around the
building were withdrawn.
Free Meetings Are Held.
big meetings were also held in the
archaeological and Art institutes and
in two engineering schools. The stu.
dents at neither OF these meetings
took prominent part in the deibera-
lions, yielding the hospitality of the
college buildings without attempting
To cloak the meetings with the guise
Of student assemblies.
With the hope of avoiding further
meetings at the university, General
Trepoff later placed halls in three
different parts of the city at the dis
posal OF the people for meetings, there,
by practically conceding the demands
OF ngitators the right of assembly.
In the great open air court at the
university, with no light except q few
iiickerlng candels on n hastily con-
structed tribune, from $500 to 5000
workmen, students and professional
men stood edged together in the cold,
wet snow fall, listening to revolution.
AIRY harangues.
All Trades Represented.
Another meeting was held In the
central hall of the university. and
scores of other meetings of trades and
professions were held in the other
rooms of the buildings. Halls were
set aside for teachers, physicians,
hank clerks. journalists, printers,
rhinoniks. pharmacists, women. en-.
gineers. lawyers, tailors, and persons
OF other callings and trades, and a
room was even set aside for non.
commissioned officers of the army,
but only half dozen OF these were
present
In all sections strong minority
urged conservatism but these were
carried from their feet by the gen.
eral enthusiasm and resolutions for q
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