Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-27
RUSSIAN CAPITAL
UNDER RULE OF
TREPOFF
People Terrified in
st. Petersburg
Government Succeeds in
Moving Trains
With the Protection of Military Guards
Traffic Is Resumed on Few
Roads-Strlkers Still
Determined

BY Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 26.-St.
Petersburg was in a panic today, but
to a large extent apparently without
reason. The most alarming rumors
were in circulation and the shopkeep-
ers on all except a few of the principal
streets closed their stores and boarded
up the doors and windows while peace
full minded inhabitants kept within
doors. Anxiety was evidenced in the
whole atmosphere of the city but 50
far nothing has occurred to justify
these fears. There were no disorders.
General Trepoff, who has been placed
in command of the St. Petersburg
garrison and given an additional divi-
sion for reinforcements, declares that
he is amly able to maintain order and
the police are allowing the strikers
to vent their enthusiasm so as to avoid
a demonstration. General Trepoff in
structed the police not to interfere
with the parades so long as they were
orderly, but he gave notice tonight
that he was prepared to cope firmly
with any disorder. He had printed in
all the evening papers a notification
that the troops would tomorrow be or
dered to use ball cartridges in case
there should be any outbreak.
BY the greatest eXertions the gov
ernment today succeeded in moving
trains manned by military operatives
on few railroads. Traffic was re-
sumed irregularly on the Moscow and
st, Petersburg railroad and on lines
from Moscow to Brest and Kazan. The
first efforts We're directed to the moving
of cattle trains so as to meet the pinch
of approaching famine in the two capt.
tails and one train load of cattle ar
rived at St. Petersburg and another at
Moscow. A scanty supply of milk,
butter and eggs is arriving in st. Pet
ersburg over the Finland railroad, the
employees of which refuse to strike.
The situation however, cannot he re-
garded as much improved.
The strikers at their meetings today
were as determined as ever to continue
the strike and the full force of the gov
ernment railroad battalions is almost
helpless in the face of the general strike
on the railroads. The most encourage
ing features of the situation is the alb
sence of any widespread disorder.
Uprising at kharkoff
Picturesque details have been re-
ceived of the uprising at Kharkoff,
where students and strikers took pos
session of the locality in the center of
the city containing the university, the
cathedral and other buildings, threw
up barricades, constructed a regular
fortress and elected a provisional gov
ernment, but cool heads effected an ar
rangement which made 1t unnecessary
for the troops to storm the revolution
ary citadel, the defenders of which
marched out with full honors of war.
Minor tumults are reported from other
cities, but in general the strikers are
adhertng to their determination to
make the protest in orderly fashion III
order to show themselves fit for self
government.
The strike has proved most effective
in forcing the government to speedy
action on measures which have been
slumbering in commission for many
years. Wednesday night the ministers
efter a five hour session finished the
final draft of a law creating re-
sponsible council of ministers, and to-
day completed the revision of the
statute granting freedom of assembly,
both of which will be taken to I'm
peror Nicholas tomorrow for signature.
Tonight the ministers held another
session, meeting formally as the Sol
sky commission, but in reality as
Count Whites cabinet, to discuss the
election regulations for the douma. 1t
WAS IL SIlOTI SSSOlOiA anu lieN'i'iS WI
cerned the elections in Siberia.
1t is reported that NJ. Witte. sim
ultaneously with the PRONUNCIATION ce
the cabinets statute, will issue proc
lamation defining his policy and ask ing
the nation to give fair trial to the
rev governmental system and resist
the efforts of revolutionaries to throw
the entire country into state OF
anarchy. The source of the funds
which are APPARENTLY at command of
the revolutionists is a mystery. In
Moscow the revolutionary Is paying
the strikers Is cents daily and has
invested large sums in arms and am
munition. The rifles and cartridges
taken in Finland and Poland were part
of those purchased by the committee
1t is conjectured that financial aid is
being received from socialists and rev.
olutionists abroad, and some of 1t may
come from America, in response to an
appeal published recently IN New YORK
newspapers on behalf of the Jewish
hund,