The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-06-27
POLAND IS
in REVOLT
Red Flag Raised in Three
Cities
JEWS HAVE LEFT LODI
Troops Busy Dispensing Crowds
And SiOrmlns BARBADOS in
Streets Of Warsaw.

ST. PETERSBURG. June q. - The
rel dag ~ revolt has been raised az
Warsaw. kovno aud other places IN
Russian Poland out Of sympathy with
Tie victims % the rioilng at Lodz. sud.
80 FAR ne those cities are concerned.
tho situation almost approaches the
dignity ~ open rebellion.
Warsaw h. IN q state of siege. Pa.
trolls q cavalry aud infantry are nov
Ing Ia every street. A general strike
was preceded BY attempts 20 red dag
demonstrations. but tie COssacks
charged and dispersed the rioters with
their whips. on VERONA street n sulicn
crowd made a stand. and a patrol
frcd
Many bakers have Joined the work.
men. and Warsaw IL threatened with
n bread famine In some Of the streets
the workmen threw up barricados 20
resist the troops. All the Polish news
papers have been forbidden TO ISSUE
any editions.
AZ Kovno n mob Of n thousand per-
sons surrounded and attacked the po-
lice station and the governor generals
palace.
All the windows were broken before
the rioters were overpowercd by tho
police Five policemen were wounded.
At Warsaw disorderly crowds throng-
ed the streets They have erected bar
ricadss at Ogrodowa. Krochmslna and
Wronia streets, on top OF which they
placed red flags The police and sol
diers stormcd these barricades, end
ten persons were wounded by bullets
or bayonets. Another ARRAY took place
az ZelaEna street. where Cossacks
charged the crowd and wounded three
persons. In the central market
crowd attacked patrol with revolvers.
20 which the patrol replied with vol
legs. wounding three persons and kill
ing q boy.
Five workmen who had refused 10
strike were stabbed 10 death by their
comrades. Revolutionary proclama
tions have been posted on the walls.
and 2OO persons have been arrested.
Since the proclamation OF martial law
at Lodz the situation has become
quieter
The rumor Of an approaching massa
ere OF Jews has caused 10000 Jews 10
leave the town.
Scattered cases OF rioting as result
of the insurrcctionary spirit continue.
One Of these occurred In the old Protes-
tant cemetery, when patrol was fired
on from behind wall. The patrol
charged and killed twelve persons. five
men. four women and three children.
Business is at a standstill, and all
traffic has been stopped.
A case OF disaffectlon among the
troops was reported when the officers
OF one regiment informed their com
mander that they would refuse TO fire
on defenseless people. The regiment
was at once transferred to another
place.
Every new dispatch accentuates the
seriousness of the situation In Poland
and the Caucasus, where state of al
most open war exists, and reports OF
strikes, demonstrations and agrarian
disorders are pouring in from many |
parts OF Russia proper, as II the vol |
leys fred at Lodz had been the signal |
for an outbreak OF general disorders |
like those following the events OF Jan
%, red Sunday"
Up to the present st. Petersburg and |
Moscow have not been affected, but If |
is to be attempted In the |
two capitals. as reported, a recrudes-
cence of former tumuts is apt to be |
Another danger spot is Georgia, Rus /
sian Transcaucasia. the warllke nhab- |
itants of which are deeply incensed |
over the affront offered 10 their clergy,
seventy of whom while meeting to dis
cuss the question of church and state
were attacked by COss.ic..,. va G.s-
persed them with knouts.
Run ON DunI<irk Banks.