The San Francisco call., 1905-01-26
Statesmen and Press Are
Doing Their Utmost to
Array Russian Populace
Against the Emperor
JOURNALISTIC FAKES
TO EXCITE MASSES
London Newspapers Inform
Their Readers That Thou
sands Were Slain During
the Rioting on Sunday


LONDON, Jan. 25.-The Foreign Of
flee views the situation in Russia with
alarm. 1t believes that, while the pre-
sent rtsings will be put down, the af
fair Of Sunday at st. Petersburg Is GER
tain to bring about a change in the
form OF government. The Foreign Of
nee would welcome a Russian govern
ment with which 1t could enter treaty
agreement similar to the Anglo French
agreement, feeling that a contract with
the present regime would be repudiated
at will. But fears are entertained Of
a revolution which might result In In
ternational complications.
The remarks Of War Secretary Ar
nold-Forster at Croydon last night,
when he expressed the sympathy Of the
people OF the United Kingdom with the
people OF Russia, are exciting consider
able comment, coming from Cabinet
Minister. He seemed to voice the gen.
erai suspicion that the British Govern
ment has Of Russian bureaucracy. Ar
nold-Forster also made the astound-
Ing statement that 1t would be bold
man who would say whether this move
ment would be likely to help
or hurt the British nation, but I'VE
must be on our guard"
The British press as a whole takes a
no less gloomy view. The papers have
been given UP exclusively since Sunday
TO alarmist reports from Russia, hos
tile articles and scathing editorials on
the massacre" one of the mildest
terms used for the affair of Sunday,
and the Russian Emperor and his Gov
ernment are generally compared to
beasts at bay"
THOUSANDS SLAIN WITH PEN.
The whole discussion Of the situation
In Russia serves again to reveal the
poorly disguised hostility Of the British
press to everything Russian. The spe-
cial dispatches to the London papers
all report the conditions prevailing in
Russia to be, worse than the Associated
Press accounts. The Russian official
figures Of the killed and wounded are
stigmatiyed as 'ludicrously official" I"
The number OF slain reported here in
Mondays papers ranged from 1000 to
5000. One prominent paper announced
that the dead alone numbered 1000 and
another said 5000. The Associated Press
figures, 800, given on Monday, are now
considered at the embassies here as the
maximum.
Exaggerations are noticed in most Of
the reports. A notable instance is a
long account of an alleged mutiny Of
sailors Of the Black Sea fleet, and a de-
tailed account Of an incendiary fire at
the Sevastopol works, which later was
contradicted by the Associated Press
correspondent.
Many articles are appearing in the
papers and reviews by prominent au-
thorities on Russia, arguing the GER
tain success Of the revolution, but they
seem inspired more by the hope of the
writer's than by facts.
prfhoa Suiotnn0Ik- MfroIrv Coy1civ,
of the Russian Minister of the Interior
and second secretary Of the embassy
here, said to-day,
'It is certain that last Sundays
events in st. Petersburg are grossly
exaggerated in all the European press.
] am sure normal tranquility will soon
be restored"
The Prince expressed no surprise
that the Emperor had declined to re-
ceive a deputation Of 100000 workmen,
who pleaded, among other demands,
for the separation Of the church from
the state.
NO PRESS CENSORSHIP.
LONDON, Jan. 26.-Some of the Lon
don morning papers complain that the
Russian censorship of news dispatches
has been reimposed. These complaints
are quite unjustified. The Associated
Press and other di atches are coming
freely from st. Petersburg. Moscow
and other Russian cities, but are suf-
fering serious delay in transmission,
probably owing to the pressure on the
wires, all the European journals the
past week having been daily increas-
ing the length Of their Russian dis
patches.
It should be mentioned, however, cs
a curious fact, that the alleged censor
ship appears chiefly to have affected
those journals which have INDUCED in
the dissemination of wild and extrava-
CANT reports. That no real censorship
Is exercised is evident from Associated
Press and other dispatches which con-
tinue to comment with perfect free-
dom on the political situation.
The Daily Telegraph's correspondent
at st. Petersburg declares that in the
whole empire there is but one official so
utterly loathed as Trepoff and that is
General Kliegeb of Kieff, who may yet
be Minister Of the Interior He con-
tinues:
Russia is cloven in twain and no
human force can weld the parts to-
gether. On one side stands the auto
crat, whose behests are still mechani-
cally fulfilled by his Majesty's army.
which, however, is a section of the
people. On the other hand stands the
empire nation, united in the determina-
tion to deliver itself from yoke which
has now become unbearable. The army
is acting in virtue of use and wont and
in time will come over to its own kith
and kim"
This is taken as evidence that the
censorship Is not so very strict.
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