Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-15
Fortress Of Refuge Prepared in Each
Block IN Rigs.
POLICE ARE AFRAID TO INTERFERE
Governor Does No. Dare Command Troops
as They Might Not Obey
CAMPAIGN AGAINST wife FAN
qeacfionary Plot Formed to Enel
Downfall of Premier Unable
TO influence the
CEar.

STOCKHOLM. Dec l5.-The Dagens Ny
heter's correspondent, who returned here
today from Riga. says: The Let's. consu-
tuting a majority of the population Of Lii
vonia, control the situation there Their
leader, NJ Jansohh, editor of the Deenas
Lapas, is also the head of the federated
revolutionary societies and has command
Of everything. Their hatred of the German
speaking population, which is unrelenting.
IL caused by years of oppression on the part
Of the German nobility.
The peasants around Riga are burning
estates and numbering landowners. The
Germans of Riga expect a ST. Bartholomew
night and Il is evident that the Let's are
preparing for q wholesale slaughter. The
central part OF Riga can be protected at
the bridges u the army is true.
In each block one house has been pre-
pared fortress in which to shelter tho
Germans when the massacre starts. Be
sides this the househoders have established
various refugees.
Murders are committed in broad daylight,
mostly for revenge. and the police arc
afraid to interfere. The governot general
does not dare command the troops, not
knowing whether they viii obey orders.
Several country committees have estab-
lished republics, intending later TO confed-
crate into Baltic republic.
The revolutionaries are preparing an ir-
resistible strike for January and the work.
men are being armed
The revolutionaries have refused to al
low either Germans or Russians to leave
Bivonia
Tho correspondent says lac fears that the
deep hatred felt by the Let's for the Ger
man nobility and German capitalists will
lead TO an awful calamity
Csnr stands by witte.
ST PETERSBURG, Dec. 13.-(Midnight.l
--CNia Eydtkuhnen. Dec. 14.)-According to
reports from Tsarsloe Selo. the reaction
airy camarilla. headed by General Coun,
Alexis Igliff and NJ. Steschinsky, formed &c
effect the downfall OF Count Witte and tc
create a Dictatorship. has failed ana his
majesty is standing firmly by the premier
NJ Monshikoff, the well known writer, who
n In Gloss. touch isith2tlia count is out with
strong article demanding the inaugura
ton OF an aggressive fight against the rev
olution before IL is too late. NJ Menshikof
said:
The ievolutionarie4 Oh enly sent ennis saris
They act "a Tue full light of the day. Will,
the government works In secret. The gov
ernment. II is true. has cannon. but per
haps only for the present while they ar
not necessary. When they are needed nom
can guarantee tnaL LleN Will not be In TN
hands of the revolutionarirs. The presen
anarchy is due to the inaction Of the gov
ernment. Witte. like Kouropatkn. not onl,
permits the enemy to arm and concentrate
his forces. hut~to make his disposition an,
10 choose the moment for battle. Such tao
tics will no more win In Russia than the!
constant stream OF reports is comin
IN to the effect that the military, princi
pally the sapper and engineers battalion
and the fortress artillery. are formulatn
demands for better food and clothing an
more humane treatment at the hands O
their officers
slow Progress Against strikes.
81. PETERSBURG, Wednesday, Dee
IA (Morning.) .)-Via Eydtkuhnen. Eas
Prussia. Dec. 1.-THE government is max
ing little headway in crushing the tel,
graph strike. The wires of the few line
over which service has been temporaril
restored, are constantly cut and not
single wire Is working out of ST. Peters
burg this morning. At the present rat
weeks viii elapse before the service ca
he really restored
The news from the Baltic provinces tods
is to the effect that many of the Germa
landlords who have not fed are establish
ing network of small forts and al
standing a regular siege. There has bee
much killing and burning.
Inha bitants of the Baltic provinces WI
are now residing in ST. Petersburg We,
immensely gratiaed at the publication yc
terday of the imperial ukase promisir
local self-government which. they sa
means the abandonment of the Russihcat tic
policy, beginning I'm 1867. to destroy q
unity OF the old provinces of Lithuanl
The ukase practically insures the restori
tion OF the status quo ante, creating d
Lucrative assembly for the solution OF Il
burning questions OF reform of the peasal
conditions. the Institution of the local sci
government and a governor general as II
Office existed before 1876. Papers general
regarded the ukase opening the door
decentralization and as the end Of Il
policy under which the Bureaucracy a
sorbed ell the power and stihed the amt
tions Of the border people.
Some want COersion.
The cries for a strong policy 10 end Il
tyranny Of the revolutionary organs a
openly taken up by such men as Charl
Won Sehwanebach, a former minister
agriculture. In an interview he denounc
Premier Whites policy as fatal. declar
that the strike law will be as useless
the press law. ami says the only meth
IL Ito answer by force threats OF the c
sanizations which are calling on the pc
pie To make armed resistance"
The cabinet has decided to prosecute
court all violations OF the new press Ia
The hrst prosecution will be that OF I
editor OF the Nasha shisn for printing I
resolution Of the post and telegraph ei
ployes OF st. Petersburg OF December l2
The new committee OF the postal-te
graph union has decided 20 continue I
I. strike until the strikers demands are col
pletely satisfied.
The ofhcial Messenger today announc
that the new electoral law which has be
drafted will Immediately be laid before I
emperor.
NJ. Tattischefs, formerly Russian financ
agent IN London. has been appointed ch
editor Of the Official Messenger
Had News from Baltic.
the governments Rdvices today from
Raltic provinces, forwarded part of the v
'cODtiDved on Second PAssl