The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-21
FROM SCENES OF
DEATH AND RUIN.
JOHN INGLIs RETURNS FROM
TOUR THRU RUSSIA.
Noted Crop Estimator Found st. Peters
burg Holding It's Breath in Fear Of
Some Fresh Outbreak and Was Adj
vised by American Consul to Flee
from Odessa.

John Inglis, the noted crop estimator
and traveller, reached Minneapolis this
morning from Russia. Mr. Inglis left
here Oct, last, going with all speed
r Rns MGW raSer RGfn and the
tho west Prussian frontier, the train,
on which were a number of diplomats
and newspaper correspondents, was held
up and sent back to Berlin. Mr.. Inglis
was concerned with agricultural cOndi-
tions, having been sent to Russia by
Watson & Co. to investigate the heavy
losses reported in wheat and other grain
crops. Eleven days after the turning
back from Eydtkuhnen he got across
the line to Weyrvalien and reached St.
Petersburg on Nov. II. .-... :
Loading Machine Guns.
The first thing Mr.. Inglis saw was
the loading of the machine guns, on the
fleet about to sail to quell the insurrec-
ton at Kronstadt. The hotels of St.
class Jews. All was suppressed excite
ment. Nervous tension was in the air.
Everyone feared a massacre.
Mr.. Inglis got out later. for Odessa,
a forty eight hour run, on the last train
that got thru. The strike was on. Riot,
ing and confusion was general. In the
iron works of st. Petersburg all the
knives by the workmen. Everyone was
armed. One heard of riots and slaughter
III many places. =
558 Jews Buried in One Day.
Five hundred and fifty-eight Jews
We're buried in Odessa the day Mr..
Inglis reached there and the English
consul told him over 5000 were in the
hospitals. All was quiet then, but evil
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partly wrecked buildings We're to be
seen and the streets were filed with
soldiers. On the advice Of the Amer
lean consul Mr.. Inglis got away. from
Odessa, and fortunately escaped the
bloodshed that followed: Later, Rus
sian, steamer conveyed him to Con-
Sa tda eheR oa after fa fGar aas
coming thru France to Calais, to Lon
dom, to Liperpool, to New York, to
Minneapolis. !. -.
No English house is doing business
in Russia. Ross r. Smythe of Liverpool
and Lenders Of London said they would
DO nothing and have abandoned Russia.
Odessa, where there are nearly 100000
Jews, has suffered terribly.
Ignorance of Peasantry.
It is pitiable, Mr.. Inglis says, to see
the Ignorance of the peasantry. They
have burned estates and destroyed mil
lions of property in their blind cropping
for the right. Many large mansions
Of the nobility are reduced to ashes.
and the estates, ravaged and pillaged,
are occupied by peasants who have
seized little plots and hold them as tho
they owned them Internationally. The
Russian peasant is hungry for land. It
is the only form Of wealth he under
stands.
Witte is unpopular. Many of the PEG.
pie for whom he is doing most, dis
| like him. He is accused Of vacillation
and lack Of, frmness. Yet his position
/ is one Of the most difficult any man
could possibly be placed in, and to Judge
him would be to presume. Yet a.
parently the mobiles hate him, the mid.
! die class fears and distrusts him and the
peasants, those at least with intelli-
gence enough to know anything about
him, do not appear to like him..