The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-11-03
GRAVE DOUBTS AS TO WHETHER
EVEN IMPERIAL GUARD CAN
BE RELIED UPON.
C0SSACKs FIRE INTO CROWD
MANY KILLED OR WOUNDED IN
CLASHES AT ODESSA AND
OTHER PLACES.

IerQdy passed quietly, WlJnOu DlOOu-
shed, in the Russian capital, and while
the city is outwardly calm, develop
ments ali indicate hat a crisis is i'm
minent. Although the streets are filed
with troops and achievements are
now pouring in from Finland, the gov
eminent seems utterly powerless to
cope with the situation, and many
calm observers seem seriously to be
lieve that the present regime is tot
tering to its fall.
Differences have developed between
Count Witte and Gen. Trepoff, and
while the precious moments pass the
emperor, surrounded by the imperial
family, remains shut up at Peterhof,
seemingly still h~esitating as to what
course to pursue.
Troops Join Movement.
Grave doubts are expressed a. to
whether even the imperial guard can
now be relied upon. Discomfort is
rife. Early in the morning the Four
teenth and Eighteenth equipages of
sailors of the guard who have been
shut up like prisoners in barracks on
the Moska canal, Demolished the win
dows and furniture, and in the after.
Don a detachment consisting of four
officers of the guard went to the law
yers' assembly and told the barristers
that many officers and a large part of
the troops were disguised with the
government and ready to enlist in the
movement for freedom.
Strikers Present Demands.
A meeting of the municipal council
was held last evening, at which a dep
utation of thirty members of the
strikers committee appeared. In an
lmpassioned speech the leader of the
aeputation presented the following de-
nands of the workmen and affiliated
organizations:
First-A constitution and political
liberty.
Second-That the city furnish food
10 the workmen.
Third-That the city refuse further
supplies to the troops and the police.
Fourth-That the troops be removed
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strikers would cut the water supply.
Fifth-The immunity of the deputa-
ton from arrest.
The council granted this last de-
mand and promised to reply to the
other demands to-day.
People Are in a Panic.
The people are extremely nervous
and bordering on panic and are easy
victims of sensational rumor.
With a strike in the government
postoff1ce last night, communication
with the interior practically ceased.
Government troops were placed in the
telegraph Office but only a few lines
are working. Many lines, including
the land lines to the continent and to
Libau, where they connect with the
cable, have been cut At 10 o'clock,
however, the cable by way of Nystad
and Sweden was still open. This is
now the only thread connecting Rus
STA with the outer world.
Even Druggists Strike.
Even the druggists have struck, and
rs there are many sick the physicians
have divided the city into distric
and also have selected stations for t.
giving of first aid to the injured in
cases of collisions between the troops
and the people.
Such news as m from the in
terror shows no improvement in the
situation. The government every
where seems powerless to break the
political strike.
The situation cannot we'll be exag-
gerated.
With the present indecision of the
emperor the government has neither
q head nor a policy to meet the crisis,
and things seem to be drifting toward
anarchy. The revolutionists openly
declare the government has ceased to
exist and that nothing remains to his
majesty
Except to Abdicate.
With a firm hand at the helm and a
rational policy, however, all might
quickly be changed.
Representatives Of the Associated
Press drove through all sections of