Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-01-25
THE RUSSIAN TROUBLES.

Petersburg and Moscow, emboldened by
the rapidly extending strike movements,
are issuing proclamations calling upon
the people to be revenged and kill the
Emperor, the nobility and the bureau
cracy. The strikers are, apparently,
well supplied with funds.
Crowds of sullen men meye about the
street. of the Russian capital, but they
are confronted by machine guns at every
prominent point. Cossacks drew their
swords yesterday on a party of strikers
and wounded several of them. Moscow
is the center of the revolutionary spirit.
General Trepof has been made gov
ernor general of ST Petersburg with
wide powers, giving him control of all
departments. The report that the Gar
had decided to appoint mixed COM
mission of officials and workingmen to
consider the strikers demands can not
be confirmed and was probably circu-
lated to keep the people quiet.
The whereabouts of the Car and his
family is carefully concealed. They are
supposed by The people to be at the sum-
mer palace, Tsarskoe Selo, but it is
believed they are now at the Peterhof
Palace. eight miles east Of ST. Peters
burg.
Serious riots 10 Radon are reported.
The people have returned the fire of the
troops, killing several officers. Build
ings have been blown up with dyna-
mite.
In certain official quarters where the
woes of Russia are always laid to the
door of Great Britain the feeling against
the British has become intense, it being
charged that the British are furnishing
money to bring about a revolution.
That even British government officials
view with more or less satisfaction the
outbreak is shown in a speech of the
British War Secretary, Arnold Forster,
who expressed the sympathy of the
English people with the Russian people
in the latter's desire for liberty.
While the government officials claim
that the strike is about broken, none of
the men have returned to work, and in
Moscow. Wilma, Kovno and other cities |
the striker trouble, are increasing.
Many foreigners are leaving st. Peters.
burg for France and Germany, being
fearful of more serious trouble there.
Father Gopon has disappeared and is
said to be in Moscow directing the strike
there.
For the moment the men with
out plan of action aud are seem
ingly beginning to realize that without
arms it is folly to resist the troops. If
the strikers are paralyzed there is gen.
eral fear that the revolutionis,s and
tsrrorists who are coming to the front
will begin reign of bomb throwing and
that the Political Exiles Association,
knowu as the ''illegal red cross" will
make large contributions.
The exact number killed on Sunday
was SO; wounded, 1873 of whom So were
treated at the ambulance stations.
A meeting of $50 barristers and solic-
tors has passed resolution of solidar-
ny WIN tuC otilAClo, piOlcotiub abdiooe
he action of the government in proyok-
ng bloodshed, declining to plead in
,ouris and deciding to open subserip-
lou in aid Of the propaganda.
A dispatch from Helsingiors, Finland,
ays thousands Of workmen joined in
last night. Assembling !
N the huge steps of the Nicolai Catbe- !
lral, they paraded the streets till mid
light, waving red flags The windows
# public houses, hotels, breweries and a !
lumber of newspaper Offices we're broken.
The police iDterfered rather late, arrest
ny 30 of the workmen.
ST. Petersburg dispatches last evening e
how that the disturbances are spreading.
'bere has been serious trouble in POI
and, buildings blown up and crowds
red on and people slain. Strikes have
lken place at Radon, LODI, and KOv- Ii
0, all Polish cities, and at Moscow. =