Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-02-01
6RAND DUKE VLADIMIR TALKS
''Army Is Ready. as | Am. to Die
 For the Czar."
zEMSKYzAB0R MAY BE GRANTED

Dttuation Throughout Poland In-
 creasingly serious-warsaw Streets
 Barricaded = Continued Riots and
 Street Fighting - American Consul
 Wires Mobs Pillaginx Stores-Gen.
 eral Strike On -Three Hundred
 Dead. -N
 ST. PETERSBURG. Feb. 1.-The lat est reports from Warsaw depict the sit nation throughout Poland as increas- tngly serious.
 A condition of civil war exists in the Polish capital. The rebels have erected barricades. Hundreds of shops have been plundered. The rebels wrecked the telephone exchange, poured tons of petroleum in the streets and have set lire to it, and it is said complete an- archy prevails.
 A woman posted on the balcony of her house picked off the Cossacks who were trying to drive the strikers from the streets. A Cossack finally shot the woman. but his own life paid the pen. -lty. The mob fell upon him. dragged him from his horse and beat and kicked him to death. Fighting around the barricades continued during the night.
 In one section the rebels are masters of the situation. The police have ded. Huge placards have been posted an nouncing the establishment of revO. Iutionary municipal regime.
 At St. Petersburg last night the po- lice surprised meeting of strikers in a tavern and fired. killing girl and wounding four persons.
 It is said that the responsibility for the insertion of grape in front of the saluting charge. when grapeshots were fired at the czar. has been fixed upon Bogdanoff. private of the Seventeenth battery of the First horse artillery of the guards, who was serving the gun. Bogdano6, it is said. is former stu. dent and a member of a revolutionary association.
 The American vice consul at War saw. witold Fouchas. telegraphs that many stores. chiefly Russian, have been pillaged by mobs and that the shops end factories without exception are closed. A general strike is in effect. Those who are not willing to walk out are compelled to join the strike by threats. Mir. Fouchas saw no improve pent in the situation and reported the receipt of bad news from Lodx and Ra- dom.
 It is conservatively estimated that the number of killed or wounded at Warsaw is about 800
 At St. Petersburg Grand Duke vladi- mir. uncle of Emperor Nicholas and commander of the imperial guard. granted an interview this morning at the dukes palace in Quay de Ia Cour. adjoining the Winter palace. A cor respondent was received in the grand dukes private study. into which he was 1shered by the grand dukes aid 1c-camp. Prince Belaselsky.
 The newspapers abroad" suggested She correspondent. have made many statements regarding the events of Jan. 22."
 T know. I have read accounts in thA foreign press. have stood aghast ct the frightful stories of the butchery of innocent people which they have printed. I know they say well inten- kcned patriots. with a priest at their Sesd. coming peacefully to place their grievances before his majesty. were vuthlessly shot down in the streets. but we know that behind this peaceful pro- cessioR was an anarchistic and Social istic plot of which the overwhelming majority of the workmen were merely innoceRt tools. We know from exami- nation os the dead and those arrested that some alleged priests were actually revolutionary agitators and students in lisguise We had to save the city from . mob. Unfortunately. to do 90 inno- cent and guilty suffered alike. But suppose 10000 men had reached tie eatee of the Winter palace. They would have sacked it as the mob sack cd Versailles. From the palace they would have gone elsewhere. and t1e whole city would have been de:iveFesi over fo an-rchv r!o: bIoodshed and 1am0- Our duty was the duty ci svay government
 The same situation has confronted eities fn other countries. Why, because tbjs occurred inr Russia. should the whole worsd point the lnger q scora st ua. h lthe nidDt .sf CT dfAcnlfie2