The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-12-07
ANARCHY ON BALTIC
Russian Government Has Com
pletely Lost Power In the
Western Provinces.
PREMIER WITTE MAKES PLANS

Presents Scheme For Universal Suf-
Trace to czar-Father Gapen's Reap
pearancs-German Aid For Emperor
Rumored - Telegraph Tie-up Com
pIete-odessa Jews Make Appeal
News from Russia now reaches the
rest of the world by courier to the
German frontier, thence by telegraph
and cable. owing to the complete tie-up
of the Russian telegraph and postal
lines by the strike of the operators and
other employees. A dispatch from
Koenigsbeag newspaper to Berlin says:
Upon Information gained from Rus
sian fugitives complete anarchy pre-
walls in the Russian Baltic provinces
The government has wholly lost its
power. and the military is beginning
to fraternize with the revolutlonlsts.
.sThe ferment among the sailors at
Iibau continues. The peasants have de-
clared the clergy and officials deposed
and are installing new local officials
They also prevent the estate owners
from selling grain or wood, declaring
dat the forests are communal prop
erty.
..The protection of life and property
has wholly ceased to exist. Bands of
criminals are securing the provinces,
and numerous seats of estate owners
have been pillaged, their arms, horses
and money have been seized and their
cattle burned to death in the stables.
"The stream of fugitiyes crossing the
frontier is daily Increasing. Noblemen
from the Baltic provinces are arriving
at Koenigsberg to place their women
and children in safety.
Special dispatches to London from
st. Petersburg, via Edytkuhnen, east
Prussia, say that Premier White has
presented to the car a scheme for uni
versaI suffrage in opposition to the pro
posal for restricted suffrage which the
committee of ministers had been con
sidering and that Lieutenant General
Rudiger, minister of war, has reversed
the judgment of the court martial at
Samara sentencing to death an engi
neer named Sololoff and other leaders
of the railroad strike. Thus a general
railroad strike is averted.
The most important movement has
been started under the leadership of
Father Gapon. the former idol of the
workmen. who since his residence
abroad has become convinced that Rus
STA is not prepared for republic and IS
appealing to his old comrades to cut
loose from the revolutionary agitatOrs.
The latter already charge that Father
Gapon has been bought and that he is
a traitor to the cause of the people.
One of the countless rumors from
Russia that has created the strongest
Impression comes in the form of dis
patch from Cronstadt stating that a
German squadron has been sighted in
the Baltic sea, near the Russian coast.
This is hailed as an Indication that
the imperial family is making its tnal
preparations for flight, and the leaders
of the revolutionists and the strikers
are circulating infammatory pamph
lets among the workmen, urging them
to stand together more firmly than ever
against the government now that they
are on the eve of victory in the great
general political strike throughout Rus
STA
The telegraph and postal blockade
caused by the strike of the operators
and employees is complete and the
streets are held by strong patrols of in
fantry and cavalry. who are kept con
stantIy on the move and permit moth
ing in the nature of a gathering.
The following dispatch, sent by cou
rier TO Germany owing to the complet
tie-up of the Russian telegraph line
by the strike of the operators, is trans
mitted by telegraph to the world a
large at the request Of the Jews o
Odessa:
The worst massacre of Jews in Rus
sia's history is imminent in Odessa
The authorities are about to use the al
my In desperate attempt to crush on
the entire Jewish community.
UNLESS the civilized foreign nation
take steps through their representa-
ives III Tue cndI > cdpitdl W SVnpe
protection of the Jews fearful cataE
trophe is certain. Odessa's Jewish con
munity is helpless at the feet of
despotic local government and mere
less soldiery.'
The air of the czar's capital is file
with stories of the alleged revolutio
at the palace, in which Grand Duk
Boris is said to have attempted the lif
of the emperor. These stories are III
true, but they prove that revolutio
In the palace is considered possible.