Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
W|TTE LABORS IN
VAIN WITH CZAR
EMPEROR MUST YIELD OR BE
DEPOSED
II Is Believed He Must Grant Not Only
the "Four Liberties" but Also a
National Assembly, to
Save Himself

has been no disorder in st. Petersburg
and that General Trepoff, the emper-
or's strong man, has taken every
measure to put down an uprising in
Its incipiency, but he has not felt sure
enough of his position to act boldly
with regard to the revolutionary meet
ings at the university and has content
cd himself with issuing warnings,
which, not having been enforced are
taken by the agitators as evidence of
lack of backbone.
AS before Fridays giant meeting at
the university, it was again announced
today that further meetings there
would not be permitted, but the col
lege portals were again open tonight
and the hospitality of the university
was extended to a group of lawyers
and other professional men, one Of
whose orators, referring to the old
Russian folk legend that the world is
supported on the backs of three whales,
said that the autocracy rested on three
foundations-money the army and the
loyalty of the people, but that Russia
is now bankrupt and the moral sym
pathy of the people alienated, and that
the army alone remains true, and this,
he predicted, would not be long. An
other speaker openly preached terror
ism and advocated making an eX-
ample" of a number of high person.
ages.
Count Whites ally in the stupendous
task he is about to take will be Cen
eral Trepoff who though his life has
been spent as an instrument for op-
preston and though he twice has es-
capped humiliation by the terrorists'
instruments of death, has come to
realize that the old order of things is
changing and giving place to a new,
policy of giving the people share in
the government. The best opinion is
that nothing will save the present
government from complete ruin. Many
shrewd observers believe that Witte
comes too late
ST. Petersburg Under Siege
The condition in st. Petersburg is
that of one fairly under siege and one
with surprises threatened from within,
almost completely isolated and its
scanty store of provisions being rapidly
exhausted. The garrison, however, is
overwhelmingly large. Gen. Trepoff
has 10000 troops under his command,
which are distributed in every section
of the city. There is scarcely a block
without it's military patrol. Infantry
and cavalry are quartered in courtyards
all over town, the barracks are crowded
and the watch fires of the soldiers who
are bivouacking in the streets light up
the thoroughfares where electricity has
been eXtinguished.
Nevsky Prospect the city's main ave-
nue., which last night was in darkness,
tonight presents a weird appearance.
A powerful search light mounted at the
admiralty illuminates the center of the
avenue with binding light, leaving
the sidewalks in darkness Drivers in
the roadway dazzled by the glare, were
unable to see where they were going,
and the throngs in obscurity on the
sidewalks were in but little better
plight. There was constant confusion,
which was augmented during the even
ing by an attemp of the Cossacks and
gendarmes to clear the sidewalks.
Two hundred thousand men are idle.
Workmen's meetings held throughout
the city today unanimously favored
continuing the strike. The lawyers dur
ing the afternoon stopped all the busi-
ness of the city.