The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-12
Railroad Men Moved Down
by Machine Guns.
ARRESTS STIR EMPIRE
workingmen Say the Reaction Has Come
and Prepare to Fight to the Bitter
End-Editors Defy the
Government.

cl. HetefsDulSt sunday, lee. 10.
(Morning), via Eydtkuhnen, East Prus-
STA, Dec. l1.--There Is every indication
this morning that the governments chal-
lenge win be accepted, and within forty
eight hours general strike throughout
Russia will be ordered.
The situation in Livonia is frightful.
Absolute anarchy prevails. A messen-
ger who arrived here this morning de-
clared that the streets of Riga were flow
ing with blood. After a meeting the
railroad men of Riga, he said, had been
moved down by the fire Of machine-guns
land artillery.
Prominent financers here and at Mos
Cow have sent urgent petitions to Pre-
mier White, urging him to summon a
national assembly Immediately. They
| say that unless this is done financial
crisis is inevitable, and that this will
Iprobably result in the nation becoming
bankrupt.
A terrible storm has been raised by
yesterdays arrest Of NJ. krustaleff, the
president of the executive committee of
the Workmen's Council, which was fol-
lowed during the night by the impris-
onment of the other members OF the
council and of number of Socialist
leaders. The reaction has come" were
the words on every lip, and in the Liberal
Extremist camp there was only one opin-
ion-namely, that it must be resisted
to the bitter end.
At all the meetings last night, some
OF which lasted until this morning, the
opinion was unanimous that the govern
ment had forced the hands of the pre-
lctariat and that the supreme weapon,
| a general strike. must be invoked
The newspaper editors at last nights
Injecting decided that the temporary press
law forbidding the discussion of vital
Questions affecting the welfare OF the
nation violated the principals of freedom
of speech and of the press guaranteed by
the imperial manifesto and that it must
be defed. The result was that the edi-
tions of the Russ and of half a dozen
more radical papers have been confis-
Icated.
| The employees Of the Riga -0rel Rail.
road have declared a strike on account
lof the declaration of martial law in
l4ivonia, and have sent an appeal to the
other roads to join. Last night the rail-
roAd men of the Baltic lines decided
To follow the example of their comrades
i NE fAtiQ6M AHitU VI f1t4 TX ENfIHHuTE
at a meeting last night resolved that
Iinasmuch "as the reaction is gaining
lfoFee and the government Is seeking Ia
lretruet what was won by the first pan
Russian strike the railroad men stand
Iready to obey the signal for general
strike, but advise their fellow workers
TO await the word from the central COM
mittee at Moscow, as failure must not
be rislxed.
! simultaneously with the arrests here,
/ VI. Dronshilny, and all the members Of
the union Of the poslmen and telegraph
Operators Of Moscow, with MI Kokha-
Inowski at their head, were arrested at
Moscow.
Emperor Nicholas has issued an order
Iof the day thanking all the Cossack
Troops for their sell sacrificing, untiring
and loyal services to the throne and
fatherland, both at the seat Of war and
in the preservation Of order within the
empire
The municipal board of arbitration has
lappealed To Premier Witte to release NJ.
Krustaleif, owing to the threats OF q
general strike unless he is liberated.
Strike May Begin at Midnight.
| Warsaw, Russian Poland, Dec. H.
The local committee OF the railroadmen's
union has received 4 notification from
the committee at st. Petersburg that the
central committee Of the union Of rail
road men, now in session at Moscow,
will probably order a general railroad
strike, to begin at midnight, in eonse-
quence Of the arrest OF NJ. KrustalefI.
London, Dec 1.-THE DAILY Tele-
graphs Toxic correspondent sends dis
patch from Moi giving accounts in cir,
cumstantial detail BY refugees of the
sacling and burning Of Hardin by mu-
tinous Russian troops, desperate fight
ing between the mutineers and loyal
troops, and the massacre of many Rus
sian and Chinese residents.
The trouble came to a head when Gen
Lineoviteh sent the Siberian frontier
troops home first, delaying the departure
of the European and western Siberian
contingeuts, which has done practically
all the fighting. The dissatisfied troops
then deserted their camps, laughed II
their officers faces and disobeyed all or
ders.
When The supplies ran out soldiers be
gan breaking into shops and plnnderine
on all sides. Open mutiny broke Out
when news Of the uprising at Yladivos