Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-25
IS VIEWED WITH ALARM
FNGLAND'S OBSERVATIONS OVER
THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA,

LONDON, January 25-The foreign Office
views the situation in Russia with alarm.
1t believes that while the present risings
will be put down, the affair of Sunday at
ST. Petersburg is certain to bring about
change in the form of government. The As
socated Press learns that the foreign office
would welcome a Russian government with
which it could enter into a treaty similar to
the Anglo-French agreement, feeling that
contract with the present regime would be
repudiated at will. But fears are enter
tained of a revolution which might result in
International complications.
The remarks of War Secretary Arnold
Forster at Croydon last night when he ex-
pressed the sympathy of the people of the
united kingdom with the people of Russia
are exciting considerable comment, coming
from cabinet minister. He seemed to
voice the general suspicion that the British
government has of Russian bureaucracy.
England to Be on Her Guard.
Mr. Arnold Forster also made the astound-
ing sta cement that it would be bold man
who would say whether this movement
would be likely to help or hurt the British
nation, but I'VE must be on our guard.
The British press a whole takes a no
less gloomy view. The papers have been
alarmist reports from Russia, hostile ar
ticles and scathng editorials on the mas
sacre," one of the mildest terms used for
the affair of Sunday, and the Russian en-
peror and his government are generally
compared TO beasts at bay
The whole discussion of the situation in
Russia serves again to reveal the poorly
disguised hostility of the British press 10
everything Russian.
Situation Worse Than Reported.
The dispatches to the London papers all
report the conditions prevailing in Russia to
be worse than the Associated Press ac-
counts. The Russian official figures of the
killed and wounded are stigmatized as 'lu-
dicrously Official
The number of slain reported here in Mon
days papers ranged from 2,00O to 5000 One
prominent paper announced that the dead
alone numbered 2,000, and another said 5000.
The Associated Press figures, 800, given on
Monday. are now considered at the embas-
sizes as the maximum.
Exaggerations are noticed in most of the
reports A notable instance is a long ar
count of an alleged mutiny of sailors of
the Black sea fleet, and a detailed account
of an incendiary fire at the Sevastopol
works. which latter was contradicted by
the Associated Press correspondent MANY
articles are appearing in the papers and
reviews by prominent authorities on Rus
STA arguing the certain success of the revo-
luton, but they seem inspired more by
the hope OF the writers than by facts.
Reports Exaggerated.
Prince Sviatopolk- -Mirsky, cousin of the
Russian minister of the interior, and sec
ond secretary of the embassy here, said
to the ASSOCIATED Press:
1T is certain that last Sundays events
at st. Petersburg are grossly exaggerated
In all the European press. I am sure nor
mai tranquility will soon be restored"
The prince expressed surprise that
the emperor had declined to receive a dele
cation of 100 workmen, who pleaded among
other demands for the separation of the
church from the state.