Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-23
WAVING RED FLAGS
Russian Strike Leaders Are Discouraged
BY Prospect Of Failure.
ATTEMPTING TO FORCE A CONFLICT
Effort to Prevent Collapse Of Movement By
Arousing hs Popllace.
ST. PeTNRssURG is IN DARKNESS
Candles and Kerosene Take Place Of
Electricity in Russian Capital.
SOLDIERS STAND BY THE PRESENT ORDER
Cache of Arms and Bombs IL Found
and Cossacks Disperse Crowds
with swords and
whips.
ST. pfTNRssURe is IN DARKNESS
Candles and Kerosene Take Place Of
Electricity in Russian Capital
SOLDIERS STAND BY THE PRESENT ORDER

81. PETERSBURG, Dec y2-ol0 p. m.-
Some Of the strike leaders, already dlscour-
aged by the prospect of failure. do not hes
itate TO say that the decision TO accept the
challenge of the government while the or
ganizations were unprepared was blunder
and that II can only be redeemed by for
cling conflict which will arouse the popu-
lace.
Several attempts at red flag" demons
strations in the Vassiliostrov and other in
dustral districts today were dispersed by
Cossacks. A number OF attacks were made
on strikers by nonunion workmen, who
fear that the strike will jeopardize the
gratuities usually received by them during
the Russian Christmas.
The Crcum- -BailSal railroad has been de-
stroyed for a considerable distance by fall
ing rocks
1t is suspected that this destruction is
the work of the revolutionares, who are
interested in stopping the return OF troops
from the far east at this time.
Discounting Failure of Strike.
The Russ. evidently discountng the fail
ure Of the strike today declares that in any
event every defeat Is a rcvolutionlst vic
tory and every victory of the government
approaches It's final surrender" 1t is re-
ported here that the disorders at Pskoff, 1852
miles southwest of st. Petersburg, have as
sumed great dimensions and at Nilorsk on
the Warsaw line, squadron OF dragons
has been besieged for three days. The news
from the Baltic provinces continues bad
Frederickstad has been taken by the in
surgents and Kreutzburg is surrounded aud
standing a siege.
The Novoe Vremya today prints a rather
provocative article against the Jews, point
ing out that the first time yesterday
revolutionary manifesto was signed by a
Jewish organization. The paper says that
although the socialist and revolutionary
organizations have always contained many
Jews, never before have they dared to put
their names to document. The Novoe
Vremya also declares that the rich Jews
are taking advantage Of the situation they
have helped to create and are buying up
abandoned estates.
ST. Petershurg In Darkness.
The worl1nen OF two OF the three electric
Hight plants struck yesterday evening and
consequently the streets in the major por-
ton of the city were in darkness through
out the night, the inhabitants being cumz
PEELED to fall back on candles and kerosene.
The searchlight mounted on the spire of the
admiralty building again vividly illuminated
tho Nevsky Prospect. It did during the
guarded every block and machine guns were
stationed at several points.
During tour of the city correspondent
dozens OF workmen between soldiers
with fixed bayonets being marched off to
prison.
a cache of arms and handbombs was
seized on the Schlusselburg avenue yester-
day and a crowd Of a thousand strikers of
the Nevsky works was charged and dis
gAd aAe -
their swords and whips. but no one was
seriously injured.
During the night the authorities sue
ceeded in getting a sufficient number Of
sailors from Cronstadt to enable the opera
ton OF all the lighting plants, which was
also CALLING TO the strikers, as the darken-
Ing OF the city and the stopping of the
railroads were the most effective means of
making the strike generally felt.
In the Industrial districts many OF the
strikers seemed to have only the vaguest
ideas of what they were striking for, re-
plying because We are ordered to do
So not knowing by whom or why.
To shake the workmens faith in their
leaders the government has distributed
thousands Of copies of circular. signed
by the union Of Russian workmen. ex-
patia ting on tho arrest Of the committee
men Of tho Moscow telegraphers while
carousing AT a restaurant as an example OF
how the workmen's money is spent.
Mysterious Handful.
outside Of the Industrial regions there
IL little evidence of a strike The city
pharmacies generally remain open. Tho
drug clerks, who have just emerged from
protracted struggle disreg arded the sum.
mons Of their union TO strike The stores
aS nd he
running. The 5oldest OF all the bold pro-
DunciamentOs OF the revolutionists is a
mysterious handbll with which Tsarskoe
Selo was flooded today. Processing to al
lude TO a terrorist plot against the en-.
peror. the bandbill says:
There will be a little pun of smoke
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