Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-10-29

/ order III ST petersburg, ana LnaL Gen-
eral Trepoff, Russia's other strong
man. has taken every measure to put
down an uprising in it's inciplency, but
| he has not felt sure enough of his po-
sition to act boldly with regard to the
/ revolutionary meetings at the univer
sity, and has contented himself with
the issuing of warnings which, not
having been enforced, are taken by
/ the agitators as evidence of lack Of
/ backbone.
As before Fridays giant meeting at
the university, it was again announced
today that further meetings there
would not be permitted, but the col
lege portals were again open tonight,
and the hospitality of the university
was extended to a group of lawyers
and other professional men, one Of
whose orators, referring to the old
Russian folk legend that the world is
supported on the backs of three
whales, said that the autocracy rested
on three cetaceans-money, the army
! and the loyalty of the people-but that
| Russia is now bankrupt and the moral
! sympathy of the people aHenated and
| that the army alone remains true, and
this is predicted would fvc be for long
| Another speaker openly declared ter
rorism and advocated the making of
| an example" of a number of high per-
| sonag ages.
CONVERSION OF TREPOFF.
Count Whites ally in the stupendous
! task he is about to undertake Will be
General Trepoff, who, though all his
! life has been spent as an instrument
/ for repression, and though he twice
/ has escaped attempts to execute the
! terrorists' sentence of death, has come
80 realize that the old order of things
/ is changing and giving place to a new,
/ and he is now a genuine convert to the
policy of giving the people a share in
! the government. Should Wittc and
/ TrepOff now fail, the best opinion is
! that nothing can save the present gov
ernment from complete ruin. Many
/ shrewd observers believe that Witte
] comes too late.
The condition in St. Petersburg is
! that of a city under siege, with an up
rising threatened from within. Al
Fmost completely isolated and its scanty
store of provisions being rapidly ex-
hausted, the garrison, however, is
! overwhelmingly large.
General Trepoff has 10000 troops un-
/ der his command which are dfstrib-
! uted in every section of the city. There
is scarcely a block without its mill
! tary patrol. Infantry and cavalry are
1 chartered in courtyards all over town,
the barracks are crowded, and the
watch fires of the soldiers who are
bivouacking in the streets light up
the thoroughfares where electricity
has been e1tinguished. Nevsky Pros
0ect, the city's main avenue, which last
| -:ight was in darkness, tonight pre-
| sents a weird appearance. A power
full searchHght, mounted at the admi-
| ralty, illuminates the csnter Of the
avenue with a binding light, leaving
/ the sidewalks in darkness. Drivers in
the roadway, dazzled by the glare, are
/ unable to see where they are going,
and the throngs in obscurity on the
sidewalks were in but a little better
/ plight There was constant confusion,
--hich was augmented during the even
/ ing by an attempt Of the Cossacks and
/ gendarmes to clear the sidewalks. Two
! hundred thousand men are idle, and
/ workmen's meeting throughout the
| city today unanimously favored con
tinuing the strike. The lawyers dur
/ ing the afternoon stopped all the bust
| sless of the courts.
THE MOSCOW SITUATION.
The situation at Moscow parallels
| that in St. Petersburg. The same par
/ alysis has seized RUssia's second city.
The strike is general. The people are
tGAg lilS 1ll IiOllDllttll1 anu are SN NdIliL-
ing TO the universities and other meet
ing places. A provisional government
has already been organized and is
waiting to exercise its powers. The
university is barricaded against the
troops.
The population Of other towns are
growing more violent and representa-
tives Of disorder are arriving in increas-
ed numbers, but the attempts of the
strike leaders to hold the people in
/ hand thus far have been generally sue
cessful. The troops are in full possess
! sion at many places in the interior,
AND the Inhabitants are panic stricken.
THE EAST CUT OFF.
There is no relaxation of the rail-
road strike. which has spread even to
central Asia, where the trans-Caspian-
| Orenburg and Tashkend lines are tied
uo. The strike on the trans Siberian
railroad is interfering with the return
/ of troops from the far east. The
Thirteenth corps was ordered to en-
( train yesterday, but was unable to
start The sudden and unexplained
/ arrival Of the battleship Catherine II
! at Odessa, while the remainder of the
! fleet is announced to be still cruising at
sea. has revived the rumors of the mu-
! tiny reported to have taken place on
board that battIeship and a second
mutiny reported TO have taken place on
/ board that battleship and a second 1nu-
/ the Kniaz POtemkine, but there
! is no confirmation of these rumors
This dispatch to the Associated Press
! from Odessa announced only the bare
! fact that the revolutionist party has
/ the government almost by the throat,
! Persons well informed as to the situa-
! ton are of the opinion that the present
conditions cannot long endure The
proletariat, they say, will be the first
to feel the pinch of hunger.
There are intimations that the strike
! organization may early next week is
sue a proclamation that the strike has
! served its purposes and shown its
strength to the people and direct