The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-29
attmpt. at formal insurrcction

s Roown. at formal instruction is not
a meeting OF strikers called to take
| place In the Assize courts at noon to-
| day turned out to be a fiaAle. The police
succeeded in preventing all except
hundred persons from entering. Tho
strikers broke a number of store win
| dows.
The strike committee. which is direct
ing the movement hero. is we'll organ
lied. and Is sitting constantly. Its a.
1 fuctions are obcyed unhestatingly by
the workers. One OF the members TO-
1 day advocated attacking the arsenal but
| his comrades opposed violence.
| The committee consists of ieprescn-
! tntives of the Social Democrats, the Two
| factions of which have settled their ar
| rerences, nnd are working In harmony,
| Outsiders are not admitted to the ses-
sions of tile committees which UP TO the
| present time have been hold III the
archaeological institute the director Oh
! which has received q warning from Cen
cral Trcpoff not to pci,hit them any
1 longer.
prominent member OF the committee
informed tho Associated Press to-day
| that there was little probability OF an
| armed uprising III st. Petersburg. lie
/ said.
RIFLES FOR A DIVISION
NOT TO TURN ON Ts0OPS
1--WE have arms, but not enough to
give any hope of success 80 lol1g as the
army Is loyal There ara SIX or eight
| thousand rifles in ST. Petersburg as well
as revolvers."
AZ tho day advanced the military pa
trolls were multiplied, but no violence
was reported, the streets being almost
deserted save for throngs of Idle work.
! men. Groups OF agtatois are entering
MI the stores and banks which are still
| open, insisting on their immediate clos
| Ing. The authorities seem to- hesitate
to employ force.
Tho strikers evidently have some funds,
| but whence they have been derived is
mystery According to runors the MOS
COW millionaire merchants who nave
been supporting the constitutionallsts
have made large contributions to con-
tinue the strike under tho belief that
| the government will DO forced to sur
| render.
Rations for ten days have been dis
trlbutcd Mt all the barracks
Two Moscow merchants arrived mere
| during the afternoon having covered tnt
distance IN q motor car. They reported
that Moscow is in an almost frenzleu
| state OF agitation.
| FOREIGNERS REQUEST
NOT TO TURN on! TROOPS
The foreign residents here are extreme 4
| ly nervous and have begun to besiege
| their embassies with inquiries rs to what
will be done to protect them In case
| the mob gets the upper hand Requests
| for protection arc also reaching the en-
| bassies from the interior. This is cs-
peclnlly the case with the British en-
bassy. Large property interests are also
asking for military protection. All such
requests are being sent Immediately to
the foreign Office but 1t Is realized that
the government could give little special
protection to foreigners. Should an armed
uprising take place the foreigners Will |
have to take their chances with the ma,
tive population. a large number OF Amer
teams have written to Charge d'affaires
Eddy, asking him whether they had bet
ter try to leave the country. The en-
bassy's courier, who Is in Berlin. has
been instructed to come Immediately by |
boat. In the meantime Mr.. Eddy is get
ting out tlrspatches by the English cour-
lev via Efcls!nEfors.
Urgent appeals have reached the Brit
ish embassy from T1katerinoslav and
Grozny in Northern Caucasus, where
large English works are threatened. The
feeling generally at The embassies is one
of extreme tension and nervousness. but
there IS manifest unwillingness to proph-
esy the result If the worst should come
warships could enter the Neva and pro-