The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-02
JEWS THREATEN
TO MASSACRE
ALL CHRISTIANS
Driven to Bay BY Bullets
and Burglars Are
Desperate.
ALREADY HAVE
RETURNED FIRE.
Millionaire Merchants Stand On
Their House Tops and Shoot
Down Their Prosecutors.
TROOPS JOIN RIOTERS
IN APPRoPRIATING LOOT.
Liberals Laugh at Witte's Pre-
dicament, While the Latter
Refuses to Dismiss Trepoff.
Press Calls Witte "sly
Fox and Trepoff s
"Ravenous Wolff
TROOPS JOIN RIOTERS
IN APPROPRIATING LOOT
(BY Associated Press

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quiet in ST. Petersburg, and Moscow & "
flood of dispatches from all parts az
the empire report disorders in many u
cities with D. heavy! total OF dead and u
wounded. The people while celebrating
their new freedom were In many in-$.
stances set upon by Cossacks and police. ~
while sometimes the spirit OF mob yio-
lenca broke forth and the lower elements
of the population gave themselves up to z.
pillage and DESTRUCTION
The most selious disorders apparently
occurred at Odessa. where hundreds Of
persons are reported - have been killed IS
or wounded, and where the riotIng is as
5momenta rily expected to flare out into
repetition OF the slaughter Of last
Julysat kasan, where a three days reign
Of terror was ended only by retirement
of all Cossacks to their barracks. Il ss5Es
a deplorable feature Of the news form
II the interior Is that anti-Jewish uprisinga Il
have occurred in many places especially y
in South Russia, where the populace%
vented its hatred OF the Jews BY sackingS
their g torres and clubbing the members
Il of the race, In sonla cases resorting tn#
5the& torch: |s " WA
The attacks on the crowds are d re-
ported to be in mos cases the work Ia Gil
Cossacks, who many times were apSs
parently, let loose upon the people wi tl-SS
out direction or authority. S&SSss
In ST. Petersburg to-day, General TIE
Epoff. in accordance with his announce-a
nlent of last night, prevented the resurnp np-S1
tion of revolutionary atlons BY
having the crowds dispersed whenever
Place and the Nevskyi Prospect were
several times cleared by Cossacks ana
police and the crowds were driven from &
the vicinity of the university with whips
and the flats of sabres. lssss s.
General Trepoff was aided by the II
weather which was cold and rainy and and Il
which kept many persons of the streets
Terrible Torture OF Jews.
Count Whites task In securing q fair
trial for the new periments In consti-ssS
5tutiona,ism is a most difficult one. He III.
disappointed at not securing the SUPPORT
Of the Liberals on whose corporation ho S
counted Many Of these are holding u
aloof and seem rather to enjoy the pre-
dicamcnt in which the new premier tlnus& u
hi-,eelf,
Meanwhile the socialists and revolu-E
tionaries who believe they have the gov
ernment stampeded are bending every efs
fort to keep the movement going. and to
precipitate a catastrophe from which. II
they hope socaMstic republic Will &.
emerge. This is a consummation rs little
to be desired by the majority Of liberals,
especially the zemstvoists as by the h
government itself. and therein lies the
chief hope that the force gathering under ~
the banner Of Count Witte Is sufficient tly II
strong to make head against the revo-
lutionary movement and the spirit Of E
unrest throughout the country. S3
Explains to Editors.
Count Wtte Is doing his utmost to
meet tho chief objections against the Il
new regime. In addition to the promised
emnesty for political prisoners. liberty
of the press has been granted. .5SsS58}
Count Nvitte Offering to the deputatlonss IA
OF editors which called on him6to de- n
n1and the abolition OF the censorship ss
regulation, the amusing explanation that q
in the hurry Of writing the manifesto the
words liberty OF the press" We're mad
vSrtcntly omitted and that the omission 3
had not been noticed until the complaint
was made x
The Official Gazette formally am
nounced that the term liberty OF speech 8f
is to be Interpreted as including the
press"
Won't Remove Trepoff,
Against tho demand for the removal 4
OF General Trepoff. Count Wltte, how
ever. is lnflexble, He informed delega.-
lion from the strike committee which "A
called on him to-day to demand the re- Il
lease of their imprisoned comradeS and Z
the removal of General Trepof that IT.
would be madness for him 70 dlslniss +
the only man capable of9maintain'ng or
der In the city at tho present iunctprs,
Nominally for the purpozs Of norfeetilss ~
their organization and Gnther!ns tnnasssi;
the strike committee tonight decited "
call off the st. Petersburg lndusir. " I VI
strike Mt noon Friday nc:;t, bnt e re S1.5S
slime Mt nm opportuno moment 5 S
The ST. Pcters5urS, rcilroad men sii!Nn. !,N VI VIZ
resolved to continue thc'r stri'Sn dee,a
they have assurances that the so'dler
OF the railroad battalion viii desert lf e II I
little persuasion in the shape OF trair
wrecking Is employed. y n
No newspapers Will be Issued sormors
row and probably not until Friday q ASi Asi
noon. The printers have determined Gsc III
work only for the journals whlch rrfused IA
to submit Themselves to the&caaao.ahlt S3
regulations. The Publishers Associations 3sss
has met this determination bI resolving Is
tn disregard hereafter all circulars tssNss ~
bv the censor and to print what thcyi ny
please. The only papers nov appsaslns 4
are the Official publications and the NYorht Sf
.,,.ny. IA zatte whish to- Morrow, Will oDEls 1s