Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-11-21
EXPECT MANY RECRUITS
Peasants viii be Asked to Join tho
Movement in Great Numbers, as
viii Also Soldiers and salJors-con.
ditlons Are Serious in PoIand-Mu.
tiny Among Ex-Prisoners Feared.

~. fetersburg, Nov. 90. - With the
coliapse OF the strike the leaders Of
the reds say they will now devote
Ihelr energies to the preparations for
d universal political strike to sustain
lhe revolutionary program when the
nallonal in assembly meets. These plans
involve cooperation, not only of the
WorKmen OF the cities but the meas.
antry and II possible, the army and
the navy.
=, VIII Have Many Recruits.
ne leaders anticipate that the fam
Inc which is at the doors of almost
Io,ooo'ooo OF the central provinces will
prove an effective ally of their agita.
Iion' Us tney can promise to give the
peasants land to an unlimited extent.
Penza In State of Siege.
Wh1le no further information has
Deen received regarding the reported
laise emperor who was said to be
marching as the head of 1000 peasants
IN the province of Penza. the turb,I-
renee there has become 30 threatening
mat the government has placed the
province In state of siege.
Consuls Fear Trouble,
warsaw, Nov. 20.-The consuIs have
asked the authorities to protect the
lorelgn residents owing to the pre.
carlous conditions now prevailing.
Killed for Singing of Patriotism.
LODI, Nov. 20.--About 200 persons
We're arrested by the military in tho
Catholic Church of the Holy Gross here
yesterday Tor singing patriotic songs.
Soldiers fired on crowd in the street
killing two men and one woman. Four
men were wounded.
Britons Will Leave Odessa.
Odessa, Nov. 20. - The situation
IN the city is again somewhat disoniet-
ing and recrudescence Of the disord.
ers is threatened by the so-called loy-
alist element. There are rumors of
mutinous spirit among the troops.
The British consul today applied
for a collective passport for the en-
tire British colony.
Fear Mutlny Among Prisoners.
Toxic. Nov. 20. - 1t is reported
here that Russia, apprehending a mu-
tiny among the prisoners on board the
transports conveying them from japan
has asked the Japanese government
to convoy them with warships to Vlad-
lyostok. The Japanese declined.
Strong enmity between the members
OF the army and the navy on the yes.
sels is said to exist. Admiral Rojest.
vensKy IS reported to be keeping in
MS cabin on the Boroneji.
Zemstavos Hold Interest.
st. Petersburg, Nov. 20.-The coun-
cll OF workmen after heated all night
debate having rejected the proposition
OF the radicals to enforce their de-
mands for the eight hour day and hay-
ing reiterated their purpose to end the
strlke at once, public interest has now
shifted to Moscow, where the zemstvo
congress opened yesterday.
The members Of the new party from
all parts of the country have gone
there to make fight in the congress
for union of all the conservative and
liberal elements to hold up the hands
OF Count Witte, to condemn the poll
tlcal strike and to seek further politi-
Cal salvation through the doors opened
by the manifesto, though 1t is neither
expected nor desired that the constitu-
ttonal democrats will abjure their pro-
gram while Joining In the movement to
aid In the restoration of tranquility.
1t is expected that sharp combat
will develop with the large action of
the zemstyoists, who are arrayed with
the socialists to continue the fight
against the government to the bitter
end. The result of the congress is
awaited with the deepest interest.
No Sympathy for Poland.
The failure of the strike has shown
the country as whole how little SYM
pathy there is with Poland in her de-
mand for complete autonomy. At Mos
COW the railroad men refused to strike
on the ground that they did not sym
pathize with the Poles in their struggle,
1t seems that in tnat part of Russia
the people remember only too we'll the
endless wars with the Poles and can
not forget that the white eagle Of Po-
land once waved from the pinnacles Of
the Kremlin, SO sacred to Moscow. The
possibility of the revival of the ancient
kingdom of Poland is therefore viewed
with displeasure, while the panslavists
and even the liberals are afraid of the
spectre of possible dismemberment