Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-02
TWISTS TAIL OF
BRITISH LION
Vice Consul is Attacked BY
Drunken Russian
HussarS.
ON THE STREETS OF WARSAW
Maddened Soldiers Rush Upon Him
With Swords - Many In Former
Polish Capital Reported Killed or
Wounded BY Charge Of Troops.

London, Jan. 30.-The corresponds
ent at Warsaw Of the Daily Mail tele.
graphs as follows:
"A group of Hussars ran down Brit
ish Vice Consul Kuoukain Saturday
night In Marshal Kovsh street. Two
Hussars rushed at him with their
swords, infiicting severe wounds
across his face and lower lip.
Dripping with blood Kuoukain was
conveyed to the hospital, where he Is
now doing well. Gritish Consul Gen
eral Murray had a narrow escape
from being similarly run down in
Wierzbova street. 1t appears that
the incidents were due to a company
OF Hussars getting drunk and running
amuck."
The same correspondent describes
Warsaw as being in state of
anarchy. MANY have been killed or
wounded in charges by troops, and
the recklessness of swashbuckling
! Hussars." He says: 1.-THE only con-
veyances moving in Warsaw today
have been military supply carts, am
balances and tumbrils for the dead
| The attempted rising Of workmen has
failed, and the great demonstration
timed for today has been postponed
After some fighting, the wrecked and
distraught city pauses to see what
night will bring"
Warsaw, Jan. 30.-The strike dis
orders are becoming mere serious.
The ordinary life Of the city is sus-
pended. On Saturday the strikers
stepped the street railway service,
but remained otherwise orderly. Yes
terday, however, they began wholesale
pillage. The majority Of the shops
in Marshal Kovski street and the
state vodka shops were looted. All
the factories, shops, schools and
theaters are closed, and the street
lamps are extinguished. There have
been several collisions between the
police and strikers, and many arrests
have been made. Peace--abiding citi-
zens are terror-stricken.
Vienna, Jan. 30-A telegram from
Czenstochow. Poland, reports that a
bomb was thrown in the cavalry bar
racks there yesterday and that many
soldiers we're wounded. The act is
supposed to have been in revenge for
brutality In dispensing a workmen's
meeting. Other dynamite outrages
are reported in the neighborhood of
LodZ. A gendarmie Is reported killed.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 29.-The most
serious feature Of the strike situa-
ton is its continuous extension in the
Baltic provinces and in Poland Strik-
ers are cutting telegraph wires and
interrupting communications, and
| fears are expressed of most serious
disorders. especially in Poland.
Warsaw, Jan. 30.-A hundred thou
sand PEOPLE ere now out on strike
Thus far there have been no disturb
ances of any importance. The street
cars are not rnnning. and no news
papers were published this morning.
There is practically no bread left
in the bakeries. About one hundred
thousand persons have struck at LodZ.
Telephone communication with that
city mas been interrupted by the strik-
ers.
Washington, Jan. 29.-Consul-Gener-
al Watts, at st. Petersburg, cabled the
state department yesterday in regard
to the situation In Russia as follows:
Strike spreading. Just received a
telegram from Warsaw that all work
shops are stopped. Vienna railway
men are joining Gas works are being
| operat~l by soldiers"
st. Petersburg, Jan. 29.-Formal
charges of negligence and inattention
to duty have been preferred against
Sub-Lieutenant Kurzeff, who had i'm
mediate charge of the gun from which
a shell was fired January 10 during
the ceremony of blessing the waters,
which was attended by Emperor Mich
olas. The official view Is that the acct
dent was a result of carelessness in
leaving a charge Of grape in the gun
after a practice which had occurred
| two days previously.
st. Petersburg, Jan. ga small
group Of mobiles of the institute of
Moscow have prepared a petition ask
| ing Emperor Nicholas to convoke a
! national assembly.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 29.-According
to reports current in military circles,
! General Kuroratkin has broken
through Field Marshal Oyama's left
wing, and threatens his communica-
tons with Yin Kow. Whether or not
the report Is true, the Associated
Press learns for high military source
that General Kuropatkin has under
taken a, general offensive movement
on both TANKS. with the object of
| threatening both lines of Japanese
communication, an forcing the Japan.
csc from their winter quarters. The
! informant of the Associated Press
| sad: After General Mistchenko's
raid, General Kuropatkin decided that
! Oyama's position could be turned
westward from the plains. The adj
vance has absolutely no connection
with events in European Russia. If,
as has been reported, the Russians
have already succeeded in piercing
the japanese left. they doubtless will
be able to reach a point west of Lao
Yang, in which the Japanese will be
outflanked A similar movement south
ward form Bentsiaputze will strike
the Japanese line of communications
toward the Yalu. Although cold, the
weather Is Heal for winter CAM
paIgning. The ground is hard and the
rivers frozen solid, making the hand.
line Of artillery easy"
No further official news was re-
ceived from the front Saturday night,
General Kuropatkin has something
short of 100000 men and over 100
guns, including number Of six-inch
in position on his center. The troops
engaged on the riSSt, In addition to
General Mistchenkss and General
Rennenkampff's cavalry, are believed