The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-01-26
DANGER POINT IN MOSCOW
Presence Of More Worknen ard Fewer
Troops In the Ancient Capital and
Modern industrial Centre Of Russia
Makes the Situation Extremely Per.
iious in View of the Intense FeeIina
Aroused.

St, Petersburg, By Cable.-The most
startling feature in the situation Mon
day night was the news that several
factories in Moscow had closed. and
that the workmen in the old capital
OF Russia are repeating the tztics OF
their fellow-workman OF the new earl.
tal, marching ffom shop to shop and
mill TO mill. demanding that the es-
tablishment should be shut down. The
whole city is reported to be in a state
of great excitement ever the news rt
ths blbodshed here Sunday, which pre-
cipitated Immediately the strike that
had been planned for wednesday.
Mos@o~ has more workmen and less
troops than st. Petersburg. and. be-
sides. is just now the heart OF the
Liberal movement. and the danger of
hloodier occurrences ihats tran hsr~
beef Witnessed here are proportional,
iy greater. A rising at Moscow is also
more likely to have greater results.
industrially and politically, than that
in st, Petersburg
PROSPECT OF EENERAf. Strike.
kec6fdins to private reports, the
workingmen in several other big cities
notably Kharkoff, where large locomo-
tive works are located, already have
completed plans for general -rspen-
siaA 6f w6fk Moreover. reports are
current that the workmen, who other
wise would soon be forced back into
the shops oS starve. have received as
Jurances OF financial support from the
sources which hitherto have furnished
the sinews OF war to- the Liberal ana
revolutionary. agitation, bit nave net
beftre beeh IN touch with the labor
movement. If the strike becomes gen.
eral all over Russia, and especially if
the railroads are drawn in, it might
Immediately force the nation to make
peace with Japan,
The situation APPEARS grave from
every standpoint; but the authorities,
although apparently somewhat be-
wildered, declare their purpose to stand
firm, maintaining that it is their first
duty to preserve order, scouting the
idea of actual revolution. Seemingly,
the Ministers are most concerned over
The effect Of The present situation
abroad, where, they declare. exagger-
ated reports create a false impress
SiOn
CAR MAY INTERVENE.
What. if any, steps have been taken,
to meet the general situation has not
yet been disclosed, bit there are ex
tremeiy Significant reports tonight
that Emperor Nicholas, in making the
decision at the extraordinary meeting
of the Council Of the Empire at Tsar-
skoe Selo, to declare st. Peters
| burg in a state of siege, announced
that he had resolved to issue mani
festo to the people with view t6 calm
ing them, promising the create a mixed
commission of workmen and officials
| to investigate and decide the ques-
| tions of the demands of the strikers,
especially the one affecting hours of
| labor, which Russian laws fixes at IL.
The representatives OF the workmen
according to this report. are not to be
| appointed. but selected by the labor
! ing men themselves This will be the
| first concession to the representative
principle.
Total Dead About 800.
St. Petersburg, BY Cable.-The esti-
mates Of the number of dead and
wounded continue to vary greatly, as
at least a majority of the killed and
wounded were carried off by their COM
reGes. Few of those taken to hospitals
have been reported. The official &C
! - Ix,x ind i
Gates the total of killed and wounded
From careful investigation by the staff
o. the Associated Press it appears that
the estimate OF 500 seems liberal. There
were Al killed and 81 wounded at
Futiloff works, where the greatest cas-
ualties occurred; about so in the Alex
ander Gardens, Is in the Moika dis
trict. As in the Vassiliostrov district
and the remainder at various other
points.