The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1905-12-28
CARS THRONE
IS T0TTER|NG
WORkMEN'S COUNCIL APPEALS
TO PEOPLE TO STRIKE THE
FINAL BLOW.
MANY TOWNS HELD BY REBELS
ESTATES WIPED OUT AND THE
COUNTRY TURNED INTO A
WILDERNESS.
MANY TOWNS HELD BY REBELS

st. Petersburg, Dec. 20.-The work
mems council, under the very noses of
the police, has succeeded in printing
a hundred thousand copies of it's paper
announcing that the government has
declared a civil war on the proletariat
and saying that the challenge has
been accepted. In it's appeal to the
people the council declares this is the
governments last fight, that the
throne Of the Romanoffs is lettering
and that another blow will cause it to
fall. The council adds:
Army in Rebellion.
while the government at St. Pc
tersburg is falling, it's own regiments
are rising against it and at Riga a re-
public has already been proclaimed.
A few regiments may still be faithful,
but the army as a whole is on our side.
The government wants to fight. 1t
shall have it." st.
The paper also contains 4 direct ap-
peal to the army, adjuring the troops
to remember that they come from the
people and must not fire on their kith
and kin.
In spite of the fury of the revolution
lists, however, considerable confidence
is expressed in government circles
that the extreme elements in the pres
ent temper of the workmer will not
dare to call a general strike, and that
if they do the chances are that it will
be a failure.
Hold Several Towns.
The insurgents in the Baltic prov
inces hold several towns and large Sec
lions of the country and are threaten
ing the larger cities.
1t now transpires that half the rein
forcements of troops on board the
train wrecked Dec. IA near Stock
mansof, Livonia, surrendered to the in
s%urgents. Gov. Regensk's latest ad-
vices said that the remainder of the
position when last heard from was
desperate.
Rebels and Troops Clash.
The insurgents have had a number
Of skirmishes with the troops in the
provinces. In one fight near Wenden,
Dec. Is, an officer and two soldiers
were killed.
Traffic is being opened over one
road out of Riga, but the trains are
fired on at several stations which are
in possession of the revolutionists.
A messenger who has Just arrived
here from Riga says that up to Thurs
day morning no serious collisions had
occurred there, though infantry and
artillery with guns loaded With ~""~o
were posted everywhere in the streets.
May Storm Riga.
AS reported here, the authorities
and citizens of Riga both realize the
danger of the rebellious peasants at
tempting to storm the town and they
are preparing for that emergency.
The little town of Wenden, fifty-five
miles northeast of Riga, is panic
stricken owing to the fear of reprisals
on the part of the peasants, who are
enraged at an attack made by dra-
goons stationed at Wenden on a meet
ing of farm laborers near Tensen, dur
ing which ten laborers were killed.
Intriguing at Court.
Berlin, Dec. 20.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent of the staid Vossische
Zeitung affirms that he has been as
sured by serious persons" that there
exists at the Russian court a party, in:
Guiding two ministers, which is in
triguing to persuade the foreign pow
ers to take steps to rescue their sub
jects in Russia as a means of raising
Russian national feeling to a point
which will result in saving the country
from anarchy.
Rebels in Full Control.
Dorpat, Livonia, Dec. 2O-The south
ern part Of Livonia and the greater
part Of Courland are completely in
possession of the insurgents. The mil
itary are still much too feeble to cope
with the situation.
The region between Riga and Wen
den is a wilderness. The buildings on
all the estates have been burned and
plundered. The heavens to the south
OF Dorpat reflect the glare of fires. A
number of Germans and their families
are held prisoners by the insurgents.