The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-03
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press)
St. Petersburg. Nov. Though
today passed in comparative quiet in
st. Petersburg and Moscow, a flood of
dispatches from all parts of the en-
pire report disorders in many cities
with a heavy total of dead and
wounded. The people while cele-
many instances set upon by Cossacks
and police, while some times the spirit
of mob violence broke forth and the
lower. elements of the population gave
themselves up to pillage and destruc-
ton.
The most serious disorders appar-
emily occurred at Odessa. where hun
dreds of persons are reported to have
been killed or wounded and where
the rioting is momentarily expected to
flare out into repetition of the
slaughter of last July, and at Kazan.
where three days re gn of terror was
ended only by the retirement of all
Cossacks to their barracks.
A deplorable feature of the news
from the interior is that anti-Jewish
uprisings have occurred in many
places. especially in South Russia.
where the populace vented it's hatred
of the Jews by sacking their stores
and clubbing the members of theerace.
in some cases resort ng to the torch.
The Work of Cossacks
The attacks on the crowds are re-
ported to be in most cases. the work
of Cossacks, who many times were
apparently let loose upon the people
without direction or authority.
In St Petersburg today General
Trepoff in accordance with his an
nouncement of last night, prevented
the resumption of revolutionary
demonstrations by having the crowds
dispersed whenever and wherever they
gathered. Kazan Place and the
Nevsky Prospect were several times
cleared by Cossacks and police and
the crowds were driven from the vi
cinity of the University with whips
and the flats of Sabres.
General Trepoff was. aided by the
weather, which was cold and rainy.
and which kept many persons off the
streets
Count Whites task in securing a
fair trial for the new experiments in
constitut!onalism is almost. difficult
one. /. He is !.disap nointed < at nptsS Sc,
curing the support of the liberals on
whose cooperation he counted. Many
rather to enjoy the predicament in
The Scheme of the Socialists.
Meanwhile the Socialists and revo-
lutionaries who believe they have the
government stampeded are bending
every effort to keep the movement
going and to precipitate a catastrophe
from which they hope a Socialistic
wi ON iC n
summation as little to be desired by
the majority of Liberals, especially the
Zemstvoists, as by the government it
self, and therein lies the chief hope
that the force gathering under the
banner of Count White is sufficiently
strong to make head against the revo-
lutionary movement and the spirit of
unrest throughout the country.
Count White is doing his utmost to
meet the chief objections. against the
new regime. In addition to the prom
Used amnesty for political prisoners,
liberty of the press. has been granted.
Count White offering to the deputa-
tions of editors which called on him
to demand the abolition of the censor
ship regulation, the amusing explana-
ton that in the hurry of writing the
manifesto the words liberty of the
press were inadvertently omitted and
that the omission mad not Deen nOtlCed
until the complaint was made.
The Official Gazette formally an
nounced that the term liberty of
speech is to be interpretated as in
Guiding the press
Refusal to Dismiss TrOpOff.
Against the demand for the re-
moval of General Trepoff, Count White
however. is infiexible. He informed a
delegation from the strike committee
which called on him today to demand
the release of their imprisoned COM
rades and the removal of General Ire
him to dismiss the only man capable
nf maintaining order in the city at
the present juncture.
Nominally for the purpose of ner-
fecting their organization and gather
ing funds. the strike committee to-
night decided to call off the ST. Peters
nurg industrial strike at noon Friday
next, but to resume at an opportune
moment.
The st. Petersburg railroad men
have resolved to continue their strike.
declaring they have assurances that
the soldiers of the railroad battalion
will desert if little persuasion in the
shape of train wrecking is employed.
No newspapers will be issued to-
morrow and probably not until Fri
day at noon. The printers have de-
termined to work only for the jour