The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-03-29
French Minister Requested to
Mediate
OTHER NATIONS ASSIST
Condition Bordering Upon Abso.
Lutte Anarchy Prevails in Many
Sections Of Great Empire

LONDON, March 29.-The latest and
apparently the most definite move to-
ward peace on the part of Russia is
that countrys request TO NJ. Delcasse,
the French minister for foreign af-
fairs, TO act as intermediary between
the car and the mikado The French
statesman has signified his willing
ness, but is, however. convinced of the
necessity of working in unison with
Lord Lansdowne, the British foreign
minister.
A special dispatch from ST. Peters
burg says that Russia has outlined
the conditions under which she is pre-
pared to negotiate peace. and ii Is now
stated with every semblance of au.
thority that, thanks to the good offices
of the United States and France. the
question of peace had assumed practi-
cal shape.
while peace rumors multiply the in
terror situation in Russia is growing
worse rapidly. lncendiary fires have
been started in the widely separated
towns Of Baku, Mini Novgorod and
Nalta, and armed bands of peasants
are numbering and pillagng Oh all
sides.
SO serious is the situation that Rus
sian imperial Is fell point on the
St Petersburg bourse.
Numerous fires are reported. suppos-
ed to be the work of incendlary rsvs.
lutionists.
a Baku (Caucasial dispatch says that
the works of the Mantachef Petroleum
company and the Baku Petroleum
works al Bibiebat are on fire.
A report From Mini Novgorod mid.
die Russia, says that fire at the
Mazoute grain depots has caused
heavy losses, estimated at hundreds
OF thousands Of rubles. The flame.
threaten to spread TO the shipping.
AT Yalta, Crimea, southern Russia.
the town has been set OIL fire five
times, the prison was burned to the
ground and all the police stations were
wrecked.
"A meeting held there was attended
by thousands Of workmen who adopt-
cd resolution to petition the throne
hrst Tor abrogation of laws limiting
civil rights; second. free speech; third,
freedom of the press; fourth, the right
to strike; fifth, liberty of conscience;
sixth equal rights for all nationalities
ana religions; seventh. immediate CON
clusion Of peace with japan. and
eighth, popular representa- ton in the
assembly.
The troops are arriving there from
TO quell the riots
A st Petersburg dispatch saws that
the funeral of a student named Yakov-
Ieif, who on his liberation from eight
months solitary Imprisonment for cir |
,ulating propagandist literature hang
ed himself, his mind being unhlnged.
was the occasion of a striking revolu. |
-ionnry demonstration Disregarding |
police warnings, crowds of students |
followed the funeral cortege, singing
pamphlets. The coffin was covered
With wreaths from Socialists, revolu-
ionaries and workmen.
Disturbances in the Caucasus CON
inue. a gendarme was killed at Poti,
en- people have been wounded at Gori,
While at Suchum the police are power
ess to keep order. In the Shorapan
district the peasants refuse to pay
axes or rent and have elected Sc
ret committee to manage local affairs
Baron Won Nolken. the chief of DO
Ice Of Warsaw, who was wounded by
he explosion of bomb on Sunday. is
improving. He received 100 separate
Wounds, cuts and scratches.