The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-25

with tho agitation was shown at meeting
Of the Society of Advocates this evening
az which il was decided to collect fund
to support the st. Petersburg strikers. |
was declared at the meeting that there II
moral obligation 10 help the struggle o
the workingmen against autocratic powc
for tho sacred principles Of right and justice
ODESSA. Jan 24-The strike fever
spreading rapidly in the southern indus
trial centres Many Of the labor guild
here threaten to order strikes The Gov
ernor has announced his resolve 10 lie
clare martial law at the first disordcrly
demonstration. but his power to enforc'
strong measures Immediately is some
what doubtful, az the garrison mas beer
temporarily reduced to a skeleton and con
sists chiefly OF cadets and reservists. The
streets are already picketed and patroleo
by gendarmes and mounted police
Thousands of copies Of Father Gapon's
original petition TO the Car are circulating
clandestnely All it's salient points appeal
not only to the workingmen but 70 tho
educated classes.
Unrest il noticeable in Kharkof Ekater-
inoslafI Eliza grad and Poltava.
BERLIN. Jan 2i.-According to news
paper reports. the outbreak at Radon.
Russian Poland directly resulted from the
news Of the massacre in st. Petersburg
The workmen quit their places Of employ
ment simultaneously and paraded the
streets shouting Down with the Cart
'Down with the murderers Of childrenl'
Some of the men had revolven. while
Others carried explosives. Their cries at
tract ed the attention of the reserves in the
barracks. who broke down the gates and
joined the mob.
The Governor turned out the troops to
suppress the outbreak but the rioters
violently resisted. Their leader discharged
his revolver and the Captain of a company
OF infantry fell dead Another officer was
also shot
The commander Of the gendarlnerie
then ordered his mon TO fire on the ring
leader and the latter fell badly wounded.
The gendarmes and troops advanced and
there was desperate fight over the body
of the ringleader who, after the demon
strators were driven back by bayonets.
was hacked to death with swords by the
Sendarmes. The mob thereupon rushed
on the troops and struggle occurred at
close quarters. in which an officer. forty or
fifty soldiers and nearly hundred work.
men and reservists were killed. The mob
later attacked public buildings with dyna-
mite and many were completely wrecked.
The troops now hold the town. paradIng
the streets and firing whenever a crowd
1t Is believed that many more
persons have been killed in this way.
general strike will begin at LODI, Rus
alan Poland, tomorrow The garrison
there has been ordered to be confined to
barracks in order to be ready for any emer-
gency.
A report comes from Beuthen, town
of Prussan Silesia on the Polish frontier
that the German garrison is frequently
called out Tor military exercises upon the
frontier, sometimes at night
RUSSIAN OFFICIALS DEMoBALrzED.
PARIS. Jan. 24-The correspondent OF
the Petit Pdrisien at St Petersburg says
that the Russian imperial family is n prey
to terror and prostration. The Car is
de jected and refuses to make any decision.
Prince Mirsky is in despair. Indescribable
prevails among the various
minister's of state.
The ST. Petersburg correspondent OF the
Petit journal says it is observable that
in what shooting the soldiers did yesterday
they shot less in a body than they did on
Sunday Many fired in the air The
scene at kolpino twelve miles up the river.
where the military encountered a column
OF workmen on the march. was horrible.
The massacre he gan furiously. but the work.
men made desperate defence and the SOL
diers more than once were worsted by
armed strikers The official figures give
the number killed in this encounter as 10s,
and the wounded, $50.
rHINE THIS POINTS TO End or WAR.
LoNpoN. Jan. 24-As the situation in
Russa beoom 90 worse European opinion
takes a more hopeful view. The explanation
OF this paradox is the belief that the revolt
has reached such proportions that the
crisis will compel the craven Car and the
insen safe monsters who have been giving
him the counsel OF destruction to stop the
war in order to paciiy the country
1t IL argued that this result will be reached
whatever turn the insurrectionary move
ment takes. Speedy peace is certain If
the rebellion by any chance succeeds, On
the other hand, II. az il more probable. the
policy Of ruthless suppression prod uces
apparent submission, no sane government
dare wage war while volcano is shoulder
ing beneath them.
The latest dispatches make it abundantly
clear that tho demand for reform and
hatred Of the war are well nigh universal
40 far IA concerns the urban population Of
Russia. 1t is equally apparent that resort
to butcheries will only drive the desperate
populace to forms Of vengeance that are