Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-13
GERMAN
FRIE ENDSHIP
FOR RUSSIA.
The Kaiser Offers German Fleet
to the Car May Have Designs
on Poland.
CHAOS STILL REICNS.

ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. -. - The
dreaded intervention of Germany in
the Russian crisis has come. The kai-
ser when he learned Of the Cronstadt
riots sent Il wireless message TO the
czar offering to place the German
northern squadron al his disposal. The
ezar sent back a message of thanks.
it is not known whether the offer
goes beyond Safeguarding the sover-
egn's person, but inasmuch rs Ger
man warship had been stationed oil
Pelerhof for several days for this pur-
pose il is inferred that Emperor VIII
liam's proposal has wider signiii-
cHncc.
Poland is not to be permitted to he
come Il second Finland. The Russian
government in Il strongly wordcd proc
lamation serves notice on the Polish
Nationalists that for good or i'll the
ancient kingdom of Poland has now
become an integral part of the Rus
sian empire and that while the gov
ernment intends to fully observe the
national rights of Poland any attempt
to wrest Polish autonomy from the
emperor would he considered IN act OF
revolt aud would lead the Poles into
the sorrowfll paths trodden by them
in 1881 and lS63 The Russian author
tiles declare that none of the benefits
Of the emancipation manifesto can be
conferred on n country in revolt
All Poland. eXasperated at martial
law. threatens TO rise Father Gapon
is returning TO st. Petersburg. Peas
ant rioting in southeast Russia grows
worse as il spreads
Amid the virtual chaos now existing
there are beginning to develop certain
omnous features which leave little
hope of aycrting Il general political
cataclysm in Russia. The contendng
forces are divided into four camps:
First -Thercactionaries, including the
court party. some military leaders and
some bureaucrats who for the past
ten days have been melting the dregs
of the population TO murder and out
rage in order to frighten the ear into
Il Withdrawal of the concessions.
Second Count Wittc and his follow
crs, including many bureaucrats and
some upper class Liberals
Third The whole commercial class
and the moderate reformers who are
best described as zemstvoists.
Fourth The Socialist workmcn, who
created the present situation by gen
cral strike
The peasantry do not figure in the
problem as yet and the rank and file
of the army is still an uncertain guam
THY The reactionaries are the small
est in numbers. and their strength de
pends solely on how far they can com
mand military support They are DIES
perately opposed TO Count Witlc and
in The present situation to the czar
This last is one Of the most
critical facts Of the moment
According TO information received
here the mutiny at Cronstadt is not
yet quellcd, the Fourth and Seventh
cquipaecs still holding out in their
barracks and Keeping the troops which
surround the building at bay by means
of machine guns mounted at the win
dows The commander of the forces,
it is added hestates TO order the troops
10 storm the milding believing he can
reduce the mutineers to submission by
starvation.
General Beleaf has been summarly
dismissed. Croustadt has now been
turned into q huge camp
In Warsaw l.J0u political prisoners
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