The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07
WIVES OF RUSSIAN
SOLDIERS STARVE.
Families in Abject Want at Home
While Men Fight in Man
churia.
WOMEN AND CHnDR1.N
:. 90 BEGGING BREAD
Situation Is Becoming Intolerable
and Uprising of Millions
-. Is Threatened.

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& st. Petersburg, April The stories
wives and families of soldiers at the
front are attracting general attention
and the public demands government aid
for the sufferers. The local charities
are no longer able to cope with the stu
alton. In many places the funds raised
for this purpose are. entirely exhausted
and the provincial papers are filed with
pathetic accounts Of starving mothers
and children begging in the streets.
At Nizhni Novgorod the palace Of the
governor was beseiged by. crowd Of
arms, asking for bread. The governor
informed the women that he would
appoint commission to investigate the
situation. His reply aroused the ire
Of the local press The Viedomosti
said: ..eG> $780, :
"Always the eternal commission!
While it is investigating the women and
children will starve.'' :.
Evidence Of Treason in Cemeteries.
The efforts of the police to smother
the political agitation have led them to
invade the cemeteries in their search
for evidence of treason.
It has become the practice of students
to place upon the graves Of comrades
who were active or who suffered in
the cause Of freedom, wreaths bound
with ribbons on which political senti-
ments are inscribed. The police now
make nocturnal visits to the cemeteries
in search Of these reasonable notices
which are promptly removed. -,
But being ignorant the policemen
make curious mistakes. The other day
harmless inscription in Greek simply
expressive of sympathy was seized and
on Wednesday q red ribbon attached
to wreath, altho upon the grave Of q
well known official, being interpreted
by the police as revolutionary EN- blem,
much alarm that general order was
sent out to all vendors Of mortuary
wreaths prohibiting the sale Of red rib
bons. .t3
Pobiedonostse6 to Step Out.
! M. Pobiedonostseff 8 position, that Of
procurator general Of the holy synod,
will be abolished after the patriarchate
is re-established, and Antonius, the Met
ropolitan Of st. Petersburg, as the high
est archbishop, will become patriarch.
The inside history Of the movement
for the freedom Of the .ortho dox church
from the bareaue5aey Ct the h9ly ;ayn9 g
! President Witte at d meeting OF the
committee of ministers during the con-
| siderRtion Of the question Of liberation
| of all faiths, which was raised by the
ukase of Dec. 25, 1904. !,
1 NJ. Witte delivered an eloquent
the faith among the ignorant, poverty
stricken mojiks, who comprise 12o, 900,
900 Of the population Of Russia, and de-
clared that, for all the bitterness anc
despair Of their lives, religion was the
only compensation. Without faith. hi
said, the foundation Of the whole Rus
sian state would be! destroyed. q =. - -.
i An Appeal to the Throne. :. !
Antonius,. the metropolitan OF p st
\ Petersburg, was greatly impressed ant
,; discussed with NJ. Witte the 5deplora
BILE condition Of the church. and as !,
result of this discussion NJ. Witte drew
up a memorial to the throne in favo
Of calling .,an ecclesiastical council. t.
reform the church administrative sys
tenn. This document was followed b.
Antonius and bishops and priests. r.
Procurator Pobiedonostseff is repre-
sented to have been furious and to hav
locked horns with NJ. White. He wrot
} to Emperor Nicholas advising that tn
whole question Of religious liberation b
turned over to the holy synod. The vet
cradle procurator, however, finding tina
he could not even command a majorit
of the synod for his proposition, an
much less against converting a churc
= council, retired from the field beaten.
2 New Press Rules.
t Under the new press regulations tn
Q papers are not permitted to publis
Q anything affecting the emperor an
i imperial family without the consent {
b the court censorship. The imperi,
s chancellor has formally requested I'll
,. Kobeko commission which is revisin
the press regulations to include this r.
o striction, and such request the cor
f mission regards as being equivalent 1
i an imperial order. ..
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70 70 MILLIONS BECOME MENACIN