Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-04-10
REPORTS PREDICT NECESSITY OF
RUSSIAN RETREAT.
REVOLU1I0NISTS PROGRAM
Violent Document Prepared and Being
Sent Broadcast over the Cars EN-,
pire, Demanding Radical Reforms
Late Reports from the Front Tell Of
Demoralzed Retreat.

London, April THE Times CORE
spondent at st. Petersburg telegraphs:
1.-THE latest official information leads
to the belief that the Japanese are adj
vanoing in crescent formation, Gen
eral Olyu on the left, General Nodzu
in the center and Generals KuroKi and
Kawamura on the right, and with a
total strength of 475,000. 1t is. feared
that General Linevitch will be com
PEELED to withdraw
Revolutionary Document.
Moscow, April 1.-THE central com
mittee of the social revolutionary
party has drawn up document con
tanning the main points of it's pro
gram, and of this hundreds of thou
sands of copies are being printed for
circulation in all parts of European
Russia. 1t demands the i2stifutis ~
of a democratic republic with broad
autonomy for the provinces, munic-
palities and commmes; the widest
application of the federative principle
of relations between the various ma
tionalities; a direct secret universal
ballot without distinction as to sex,
nationality or religion; proportional
representation; direct popular iegisla-
tion, with the initiative and referen-
dunn; electibility, responsibility and
removalbility of all officials; separa-
tiOn of church and state; complete
freedom of conscience speech, the
press, assembly and association; the
right to strike; compulsory popular
and gratuitous education; the aboli-
ion of the standing army and the sub
stitution of a national militia; an
oight-hour day; a minimum wage
scale; state insurance for all at the
expense of the state and employers;
he specialization of all land or such
approach to the abolition of private
ownership as is practicable, including
he sequestration of crown, church and
state lands, turning them over to the
sOmmunes; the limitation and CONVEX
ion of rents into an income tax, pay
Lble to the commune; progressive in
some and inheritance taxes, inappi-
liable to small incomes; the abolition
If indirect taxes and the protective
system except as to objects of luxury.
The document urges the summoning
Of a constituent assembly, in which it
proposes to conduct a campaign for
the dissolution of the autOcratic re
gime and the transformation OF the
existing order.
Great Confusion of Retreat.
st. Petersburg, April Wounded
Russians who have arrived from Muk,
den describe the confusion in the eva
cuation of Mukden and the fighting in
the narrow streets and at the gates,
where Japanese and Chinese ambushed
the last attachments and where Gen
eral Galefeldt was wounded and capt
tured.
The losses of the Japanese, accord
ing to foreigners accompanying them,
were nearly 100000, the eighth divl,
sion, for instance, losing over 1000 yet
being not considered one OF the heavy
sufferers, the greatest losses were In
troops operating against General Line
witch, where the struggle was much
longer and of more intensity than
elsewhere The Japanese placed the
number of guns captured during the
retreat at 90, and also captured thou
sands of abandonde rifles and immense
quantities of boxed rife ammunition;
and according to Chinese the Japanese
are now re-arming their reserves with
Russian rifles.
Counted on Russian Inertia.
Japanese officers admitted that they
concentrated every last effort to win
the battle and threw their entire re-
serves into the fighting line, leaving
the rear communications entirely I'M
protected. They realized That had the
Russians thrown a heavy force even Of
cavalry in the rear, their position
would have been critical, but they