Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-24
SITUATION IS QUIET
But Extreme Tension Exists
at st. Petersburg.
DISORDERS In MOSCOW
MANY FOREIGNERS ARE SAID TO
BE LEAVING RUSSIA.
No Collisions Reported Today - Wild
Rumors in rculation-Incendiary
Proclamations Distributed.

While the city is quiet, there is still ex-
treme tension in st. Petersburg; but from
Moscow comes news that disorders have
begun there, and the lull here may be only
the precursor of another storm. Not sim
gle mill or factory has started up. This is
very significant, as indicating that the
workmen are being supplied with the
sinews of war.
None has applied for pay at the facto-
ries, ALTHOUGH some have two weeks pay
coming to them. The crowds in the streets
are sullen, and several thousand additional
troops We're brought in at daylight and
housed in barracks. Machine gun batteries
were also placed at several points for
emergencies. The terror of the people has
been somewhat relieved but the dread of
the next few days continues.
MANY foreigners are leaving Russia. The
foreign embassies are not manifesting
alarm. They are expressing confidence
that the government will be able to handle
the situation, and that there is nothing
now warranting apprehension for the lives
or safety of their fellow -cOuntrymen.
The authorities insist that the danger of
the situation is exaggerated, continuing to
scout the idea of revolution and MAIN
tanning the ability of the government to
meet all emergencies.
The traffic between ST. Petersburg and
Moscow and st. Petersburg and Warsaw
is uninterrupted The northern express ar
rived on schedule time.
During the afternoon came the news that
workmen were going out at Kovno and
Wilma, but particulars were lacking.
Although the crowds on the Nevsky Pros
pect continued to increase during the after
noon just as they did yesterday there have
been no collisions up to this hour. More
over during the day several of the smaller
mills resumed work and the men at other
mills assured their employers that they
were anxious to return, but that the strik-
ers threatened to kill them if they did SO.
The widest rumors are in circulation. A
mob is reported to be marching on Tsarskoe
Selo to see the emperor as the multitude
marched to Versailles to ask King Louis
XVI Of France for bread in 1880, but the
story is utterly without foundation.
In certain quarters where the woes of
Russia are always laid to the door of Great
Britain the feeling against the British has
become intense, it being charged that the
British are furnishing money to bring about
a revolution.
ST. PETERSBURG, January 24.-At 2:30
o'clock this afternoon the city is quiet,
but extreme tension exists. Disorders have
begun in Moscow and the ranks of the
strikers are constantly augmented. Ad-
ditional troops have been brought to the
capital.
Prof. KaTeeff and Nine. Annensky and
Peschechonoff. three well-known writers
and Town Councillors Kedrin and Schnithi-
koff, who are also lawyers, were arrested
during the night
ST. Petersburg wore a less martial aspect
today. Everywhere troops have been drawn
into court yards. Only pickets are left out
side and small squads of Cossacks are
patrolling the streets. The stores along the
principal thoroughfares are mostly closed
and barricaded. The correspondent of the
Associated Press drove up the Nevsky pros
pect and with the help of daylight realized
that the damage done to store fronts was
more considerable than appeared last night.
A large number of business premises were
wrecked, the mob having devoted itself
principally to confections and pastry cooks.
Enormous crowds of strikers and many
sightseers, encouraged by the mild weather,
were promenading the sidewalks this morn
ing and the street cars were again In op-
Grafton. All has been quiet up to this
hour
The correspondent OF the Associated Press
noticed several men distributing proclama-
tons. The people formerly were shy of
accepting such documents, now they are
eagerly accepting them and have nicknamed
them 'lastothke' C'swallows'') an allusion
TO the spring which has become a synonym
OF evolution. The correspondent secured
number of copies. They all signed
by THE Russion social democratic labor
party" One proclamation. dated January
D. reads:
Proclamation's Demands.
Comrades: Sc long as autocracv ex-
lists no Improvement In our condition is
possible. Therefore we continue to inscribe
on our banners the following demands:
THE immediate. cessation of the war
THE summoning of constituent as
sembly of representatives of the people,
and direct, secret ballot.
THE removal of class and race privileges
and restrictions.
1.-THE inviolability of the person and domi-
cile.
Freedom of conscience. speech. the press.
meetings, strikes and political associa-
tions"
second proclamation, dated January %.
says: -
The proletariat of all countries are
united.
Citlzens, yesterday you witnessed the
bestial cruelty of the autocratic govern
ment You saw blood flowing in the streets.
You saw hundreds slaughtered defenders
OF the cause OF labor. You saw the death
and heard the groans of the wounded wo-
men and defenseless children The blood
and brains of workingmen were snattered
around where their heads had been laid /.
Who directed the soldiers to aid tber
rifles and fire bullets at the breasts of the
laborers?
Denominated Murderers.
1t was the emperor, the grand dukes.
the ministers. the generals, the nobles of
the court. They are the murderers Slay
them!