Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-16
BRITISH INDIGNANT
Massacres in st. Petersburg
Provoke Sharp Comment.
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Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
LONDON, February ., 1905.
The massacres in st. Petersburg have
produced universal Indignation in London
and staid ard sober citizens who have no
sympathy with violence or revolution are
SAYING that If the car and the grand dukes
were assassinated no one would regret their
fate. The feeling of sympathy with the ar
tisans of ST. Petersburg is deepest among
the working classes, and already a move
ment is on foot for expressing sympathy
with the victims of the massacres OF last
Sunday What action will be taken has
not been settled, but it is expected that
the workmen's organizations will arrange
a great demonstration in Hyde Park.
1 believe that steps have been taken to
secure International action on the part or
the workers of Europe in sympathy with
their fellows in Russia. Already communi-
cations have been exchanged between GER
tain of the British leaders of labor and
their French. German and Belgian col
leagues and l am told that there is gen
eral conviction that this grim business IN
St Petersburg should not be regarded as
an isolated incident, but as a struggle al
fecting the interests of the great army of
European workers. The present idea is 10
hold as soon as possible an international
conference with the view OF assuring the
Russian workers of moral and material
assistance, and of warning the RUSSIAN
bureaucracy that a persistence in the poll
cy of inhuman oppression viii provoke the
resentment of the whole of Europe
1 have interviewed several Russians in
this country with regard 10 the events in
St. Petersburg. These MEN are all. of
course. strongly hostile to the existing re-
gime. and are generally men of very ex-
treme opinions. Their views on the stua-
ton are therefore colored by their political
sympathies. but generally they regard the
crime as sealing the fate of the bureau
cratic system, if not of the imperial family
The Russian Workers.
One of the most trusted of the Russian
leaders in this country said today: "a
new spirit has been born in the Russian
workers. spirit that will in the end prove
itself stronger than the brutalities and
selfishness of the bureaucrats." The feeling
of the Russian colony here is quite as
strong against the dowager-cZarina as it
is against the Grand Duke Vladimir. Her
majesty is believed by the Russians here to
be the evil genius of the emperor.
According to a correspondent who has |
been in recent contact with them, the men, |
bers of the Russian revolutionary group in |
London are indulging in very violent talk
about the reprisals that will be taken upon |
the car and his ministers for the work of |
last Sunday. "A clean sweep" they say, |
lis to be made of the whole royal family, |
grand dukes and ALL and this is to take |
place within three months. They alege |
that these acts will be performed not by |
the rank and file of the party, but by men, |
bers of the highest circles in st. Peters, |
burg, who are in touch with the court In |
fact, their purpose will be to repeat the |
massacre of Belgrade, coup detat which |
was effected by people of high rank. Those |
ministers responsible for the worst features |
of the present system will also they say, |
suffer the extreme penalty which rebellion |
metes out to tyranny. special vengeance |
hai or prir vx-hnc
benevolent attitude, they assert. has been |
merely assumed a cloak for despotisnl- |
provoking liberal thought to express itself |
and liberty to hold up its head only that |
tyranny might have better excuse for its
work.