The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1905-11-23
HYDE ON THE STAND SIBERIA NOW AFLAME
Outbreaks Are Reported From
Various Points In Cars
Asiatic Realm.
GENERAL STRIKE PROCLAIMED

Workmen Rose Against Issuing of Mar
tiaI Law Decree and Other Repressive
Acts-Polish Situation Desperate-ln-
tervention In Russian Affairs by Ger
man Emperor.
The upheayal in Russia following
the PRONUNCIATION of the reform mani
festo issued by the emperor has reach
ed Vladivostok and Yeniseisk and other
extreme points of the empire. From
various sources come reports of an up
rising at Vladivostok. Many persons
have been killed, and martial law has
been proclaimed in the city.
The American embassy in st. Peters
burg has received from Consul Greener
details of the outbreak which followed
the departure of the Russian armored
cruisers Gromoboi and Rossia. The
people who had gathered in great
crowds in the streets became excited
by inf1ammatory speeches. Many sol
diers and sailors were also in an angry
mood, having expected to go home
with the squadron. The mob began to
break windows and pillage.
They set fire to the theater, the Gold
en- Horn hotel, to several blocks of
Chinese buildings in the northern part
of the city and to the officers resi-
dences and other buildings in the east
ern quarter. Seventy buildings were
consumed. Troops were summoned to
restore order and fired frequent vol
leys, killing many persons.
In view of the condemnation to death
of many of the sailors who took part
| in a recent mutiny at Cronstadt, the
delay in carrying out the reforms out
| lined in the imperial manifestoes, the
council of workmens delegates decided
/ to proclaim a general strike Throughout
| Russia.
/ There has been little Improvement
in the agrarian situation in the central
| provinces. The peasants in many cases
are fighting among themselves, and or
gained bands are attacking villages
| of considerable size for the purpose of
/ p1undering them.
Emperor Nicholas and the Russian
court will not return to st. Petersburg
this winter. His majesty has decided
to go back to Tsarskoe-Selo
+! His decision not to go to the CAPT
! tai is regarded as unfortunate, not only
! for its moral effect, but because it
/ keeps him surrounded by court infiu-
ences and out of close touch with
| Count White Members of the EN-
! peror's encourage have strongly advis-
/ ed against his being in st. Petersburg
when the national assembly meets, re-
calling to his majesty's mind the fatal
results of Louis XVI agreeing to leave
! Versailles and place himself at the
mercy of the populace of Paris in 1879
/ With the proclamation of martial law
in the provinces of Poland comes ap-
| prehension that the revolutionary dis
turbances of the last few months will
be tame in comparison with what will
| follow should the soldiers interfere with
the strikers. The people are eXasperat-
ed. Quantities of arms are constantly
coming into the big cities of Poland.
1t is now known that the dreaded
Intervention of Germany in the Rus
sian crisis has come The kaiser when
| he learned of the Cronstadt riots sent
| a wireless message to the czar offer
ing to place the German northern
squadron at his disposal. The czar
sent back a message of thanks.
Evidence accumulates that both Ger
many and Austria have given Russia
| assurances of support, but of what ma
| ture cannot be learned. Both are inter
ested, each having a Polish problem Oh
hand in not raising the Polish hopes OF
a restoration of the ancient kingdom
| of Poland