Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-11-11
DEMAND ABDICATION
ODESSA LOYALlSTS MURDER AND ROB-
Tive Thousand Reported KILLED and
NSunded--Jcwish Dead Strew the
streets - Authorities Are
ParaIyKed.

ParaIyxed.
ST PETERSBURG Nov. 3.--From
nearly all parts Of the Russian empire
comes news indicating that the spirit
of revolt is still spreading. In Finland
the red flag has everywhere been rails
ed and placed on all official buildings,
side by side with the national ensign.
Armed forces are reported to be
marching ON Helsingfors, the capital
of Finland, bringing with them artil-
lery.
The democratic and revolutionary
great mass meeting at the capital, at
which nothing less than the abdication
of the car and the formation Of a re-
public was demanded.
at Odessa anarchy is rampant. Kill
ing and plundering by bands formed
of hundreds Of "loyalists' continued.
Attacks on the Hebrews are incessant
The nights are made hideous by bodies
of 'loyalists" with whom the police are
fraternizing marching through the prin-
cipal streets bearing national flags
portraits of the emperor and ikons
singing the national hymn, smashing
everything in their way and looting
shops and houses.
A late dispatch from odessa says:
'"The casualties are believed to have
amounted to 5000 killed and wounded
In the Jewish quarter bodies stiIl
strew the streets and sidewalks
Jewish women and children We're
strangled and hacked to pieces in the
streets where the mobs gained the up
per hand. A Red Cross doctor said that
the Kishineff horrors were repeated a
hundredfold.
''The students alone saved the city
from wholesale sack and massacre.
The military are now placing hun
dred machine guns at various points.
Twenty-six cases of wounded have
just passed my door.
THE sound of firing is again moving
westward toward the Jewish quarters.
The mobs swear they will not leave a.
single Jew alive
General Kaulbars was called to the
balcony of the palace by 5000 loyal
lists, carrying imperial portraits and
ikons and singing the national hymn.
The general earnestly entreated the
assemblage to dispense and go home,
but with ringing cheers the loyalists
resumed their march through the city,"
Hospital wagons pass through the
streets necessarily carrying off the
killed, wounded and mutilated. The
population is panic stricken.
Troops wreaked terrible vengeance
on occupants of three houses from the
balconies of which shots had been fired
upon them. They Immediately stormed
the houses and with unheard of bar
barity massacred all the inhabitants.
1t is asserted that the persons who
fired OH the troops were disguised po-
licemen who purposely provoked the
troops.
The city is dismal sight. Streets
are filled with Cossack patrols and fly
ing detachments of the Red Cross,
which follow bands of murderous riot
ers. Firing has been uninterrupted the
whole day. Many hundreds have been
killed or wounded
A Cossack patrol attacked the stu
dent militia, which was courageously
trying to stop the bands who are mas
sacreing and pillaglng, principally in
the Hebrew quarter. The hooters open
ly divide the goods, the Cossacks in
many cases participating in the pro-
ceeds. The rector of the university has
telegraphed Count White imploring
him to Immediately dismiss Governor
Reinhardt, who is held responsible for
the outbreak, as otherwise a catastro-
phe is unavoidable.
At Warsaw the Social Democrats
have issued proclamation calling for
revolution. Polish flags We're dis
played from many balconies, and
mass meeting Of all political parties
was held in Philharmonic hall to dis
cuss the situation. Great crowds sur
rounding the building sang patriotic
songs.
1t. now appears that thirty persons
were killed and more than hundred
wounded during the conflicts there.
Instead of the expected abolition of
martial law the military governor had
the walls covered with proclamations
announcing that in consequence of the
disturbances crowds assembling in the
streets will be dispersed by force of
arms
st. Petersburg Embassy Heard From.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-The state
department has received dispatch
from the American embassy at ST. Pc
tersburg stating the conditions in Fin
land continues bad, but that The stua-
ton in st. Petersburg appeared to be
improving and that the strike probably
viii be settled today. The dispatch
spoke Of a hopeful outlook for the res
toration of communication between St
Petersburg and the outside world. The
message was taken to the White House
by Assistant Secretary OF State Racon