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~HICH-HANDEO UkASE /.
or CAR The LIMIT
His Subjects Are at Mercy OF
the lron-Willed and Blood
Thirsty 7repoH.
zEMTvos is PROHIBITED
Popular Gathering of Representativ.
Body Is Denied Privilege Of Hold
ing Meetings Even After
Delegates Assemble.

ing Meetings Even After
Delegates Assemble.
ST. Petersburg. June S.-Emperor
Nicholas ukase virtually creating
Governo. General Trepoff dictator, has
given rise to a mighty sensation 1t
issthe Imperial recognition of the crisis
in the internal affairs of Russia, and
instinctiveiy recalls the step taken by
the emperor's grandfather, Alexander
III. Immediately after the attempt to
blow up the winter palace in 1880, when
he appointed a commission of public
safety, headed by General Loris-Melik-
or, except that the POSITION of Cen
eral Trcpoff will be analogous to
that occupied by Loris-Meltkoh, when
later in the same year he was appointed,
minister Of the interior with full con-
troll of the police.
Reaction and repression doubtless
will be the quick Interpretation put up
on the emperpr's act as soon as it be-
ZONES known to the liberals. Buried
in the columns OF the Official Messen-
ger and coming almost without warm
ing. the ukase is not as yet generally
known. but to the initiated the future
of Constantine Petrovitch Pobiedonost-
self, chief procurator of the holy synod,
looms large. Behind the scenes the
Olo lIlatl Sllldll1o az SNC11 oIlNA
primising as ever. He left what man.
believed to be his dying bed n went,
to Tzarskoe Selo, where he spent al
most the entire day with his majesty.
The decision to place in the hands
of the strongest executive in Russia.
which Trepoff is universally recognized
as being. the power to crush with an
iron hand the political agitation which
has brought Russia almost to the brink
of revolution according to public be-
lief is the fruit of Pobiedonostseff's
visit, for so far as can be ascertained
not a single one of the emperor's min
listers was in the secret.
Like Bolt from Clear Sky.
The ukase came like a bolt from a
clear sky. M. Bouiigan, minister of
the interior, could not face the humilia-
ton and Immediately resigned, and it is
not impossible that other ministers will
follow suit. 1t is rulmored in the city
that Count Lamsdorff, the foreign min
lister, has already placed his resignation
in the hands of the emperor and that
he will be succeeded by NJ. Moravieff,
former minister of justice. and now am
bassador at Rome. Admiral Alexieff
has also demanded the acceptance of
his resignation.
Zemtvos Is Muzzled.
Moscow. June S.-The meeting of the
all-Russian zemtvos congress called for
today, for which $50 delegates from
various zemtvos and municipalities, in
GLIDING the mayors of twenty-five cities.
arrived here today, and ut which it
was proposed to introduce resolutions
calling for the immediate cessation of
hostilities, has been prohibited. The
order of prohibition which arrived only
late las night caused the greatest in
dlgnation and resentment.
Many delegates are determined to
defy the government and to proceed
with the congress, in which case trou-
BILE ma be expected.
The more radical of the delegates are
proposing measures of an extreme type
and there is the greatest anxiety over
the probable development today.
Delegates representing the social rev.
o~lutionaries n League of Leagues are
also in the city and an effort is being
made among them to agree on a basis
for common action.
Grewsome Tales Are Told.
London. June 6.-The following are ex-
tracts from dispatches to the Daily Tele-
graph from various points in Japan relat-
ing to the naval battle:
The commander of a japanese torpedo
boat says that the heavy seas dashed
brine in the eyes of his crew, almost blind
ing them. This continued fer twelve hours.
and many of his men had their faces
skinned. Some were brine soaked. while
others We're despatched with the warm
blood Of their wounded comrades. 1t is
said that on the Russian ships men fell
down, not on account of their wounds. but
became unconscious from exhaustion"
<An engineer officer of the Russian de-
seroyer Gromski, describing the fight,
says:
"A Whitehead torpedo struck US right
astern. Twenty-one officers and men,, in
|. Guiding our captainfi were killed instantly.
twenty-three others were shot overheard.
The remaining twenty-five exploded a
charge into the destroyer and sank her
The captain of the Russian cruiser Adj
miral Nakhimoff, describing the opening
of the battle, said:
ION entering the straits Admiral Ro-
jestvensky posted one signal for battle.
which read: We must nave not only a
triumphant victory into Vladivostok. hut
must sink part of the japanese ships en-
the way"
The captain ascribes the defeat to Re-
jestvensky's indecision and to the utter
loss of communication between the ships.
The Nagasaki correspondent of :he
Daley Telegraph says that all along the
coasts of Tzu and Xxi islands the bodies
of Russians are washing ashore every
minute and that they are being rever-
emily inferred by the islanders.
Russian Fleet Sighted.
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