Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-01-27
WAR AT RUSSIA'S DOOR.
The Far East No Longer Centre Of Attraction.
MOB RIOTS IN RUSSIA THAT SAVIOR OF REYOLUT on AND MAY
FORESHAD0W END OF THE EMPIRE
PASSING NOTES or STRUGGLES wlTH JARS.

ments aud Others are rapidly being
formed.
la every capital of Europe the
action of the Russian government is
and the belief is ex-
pressed that the autocracy and the
Romanoff dynasty as we'll is doomed
to destruction at the bands of the
outraged people.
is SPREADING OVER RUSSIA.
Wednesdays dispatches, the last
we have been able to receive because
of Interrupted communications from
the blizzard, announce the follOwius:
Although the city is quiet, there
is still extreme tension in st. Peers
burg; but from Moscow, the ancien,
capital, comes news that disorders
have begun there and that the ranks
OF the strikers are being constan tly
augmented. Father Gopon has dis
appeared, aud is said to be In Mos
COW directing the strike there.
If the strike becomes general all
over Russia, and especially if the
railroads are drawn in, it might I'M
mediately force the nation to make
peace with Japan.
While dispensing strikers Tues.
day Cossseks drew their sword
and wounded several men. The
Nevsky Prospect, including the Win.
ter Palace, and the district where
the Embassies are located, is in
darkness, and there has been a re-
sumption of the panicky feeling.
Nevertheless the authorities ex-
press increasing confidence that the
backbone of the strike is now broken,
and that all the prominent agitators
and many extreme Liberals have
been arrested.
For the moment the strikers are
without a plan of action, aud are
commencing to realize that without
arms it is folly to resist the troops.
If the strikers are paralyz ed, there
is general fear that the revolutionists
and terrorists, who are coming to
the front, will begin a reign of bonn b.
throwing. The crowds are sulleu
and several thousand additional
troops were brought in at daylight
and housed in the barracks. Ma
chine-gun batteries were also placed
at several points for emergencies
The dread of the next few days con.
tinues. Many foreigners are leaving
Russia.
A SAVAGE BUTCHER.
The strongest, the cruelest, the
most imperious man in Russia to-day
is the Grand Duke Vladimir, eldest
uncle to the Gar. On him i'm this
emergency depends. 90 great extent
the fate of the monarchy. He pul
down the uprising of Sunday with
an iron hand that reeked with the
blood of slaughtered people. He
seeks to save the throne because he
wants to occupy it himself. That
policy which led to the war with
Japan is charged to vladimir; be
vigorously urged it on the Govern.
ment. If Vladimir has a free hand
the revolution will be crushed with
an iron hand even if Russia runs
with blood.
MuTTERINGS OF PORT ARTHUR.
1t has been proposed to dam Por.
Arthur harbor at the narrow en-
trance and pump out the water in
an effort to recover the sunken Rus.
sian war vessels.
The war correspondents are trying
to show that Gen. Stoessel could
have held out longer at Port Arthur
than he did, as he had $1,000 avail.
able men. The difference is. the
correspondents are occupying the
field after the eleven mon this seige i.
over and Ger. Stoessel occupied i,
during that long seige. The Admir-
ais, who were at logger-heads with
the army in Port Arthur, are also
saying ugly things about Stoessel's
premature surrender.
Russisn officers who were at the
Port express great bitterness agains,
and denunciation of Admiral Alexiefi
for his failure to properly fortify
Port Arthur sand his cowardly
flight" by the Last train from the
fortress.
General Nogi, the victorious jap
commander, now that the strain of O
seige is over, is said to be FRUSTRATED
at the death of his only son, killed
before the walls of Port Arthur.
IN THE NORTH.
Japan is quick to appreciate the
great opportunity presented by Rus.
sia's internal difficulties, and it is
announced that an immediate adj
vance is to be made by Oyama against
kuropatkin's lines along the Shake
river. The opinion is expressed
that the uprising in Russia will force
that government to make proposals
for peace.
Except at Yinkow, where the jap
anese were strongly intrenched, Gen.
erai Mistchenko's recent Cossack raid
was successful. lie burned trans
ports. cut the railway aud returned
In safety to Mukden.
A Russian soldier at the front has
written terrible letter to bis parents
In which he tells how badly wounded
soldiers ale buried alive. The writer
endeavored to save a personal friend
Of his own who was marked for this
awful fate by impioring the doctor
to intervene. "When the doctor go,
there, the foor fellow crswled over
and kissed his feet and begged of
him to save him, as he won't fall on
the government for a pension, as he
feels that be can be cured and will
live; ne begged the doctor to cave
him for the sake of his wife and
children let him live tc see them
again. The doctor answered, .You
cannot live; you have bullet in
your lung, therefore | cannot take
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