Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-15

clared enphatically that the govern
mant would do nothing for Poland I'M
der comDulsion and that martial law
could not be abolished until the sepa-
ratist movement ceased. The premier
declared that the most the Poles could
expert in addition to the rights grant
ed under the reform manifesto was a
separate general Zemstvo for Poland
and municipal self-government.
The Polish delegates say that over
1000 Polish prisoners are in the 1ails OF
Warsaw.
The radical press is not sparing in its
denunciation of the government ac-
ton in putting all Poland under mar
tial law, declaring that it Is plain Vlo-
lation of the spirit of the reform mani
festo. but it is evident that the govern
ment has recovered its nerve and is de-
terrnined 10 use severe measures if ne
cessary 10 rest ore order The agitation
throughout the country at the excep-
tional powers conferred upon the aides
Ge-camp of the Emperor VINO VIII be
dispatched to the central provinces
where agrarian disorders are spreading.
is proof Of this. At the same time half
{, uCZen governors, including the gov
ernors of Odessa, Tomsk and KaZan,
who failed to prevent disorders, have
been sunmarily dismissed at Count
Wittes nstigation.
The clergy with other classes cOntin-
ue their intercessions for the Cronstadt
mutineers, $50 of whom are reported to
have been condemned to death.
A number Of army officers indignant
at I tom ,INSf - -,
Imperial Horse Guards. who recently
sahred Prof. Tarle Of the Polytechnic
institute, have joined in a proposal to
boycott FrolOff and all the other officers
of the Horse Guards unless the lieuten-
ant clears himself of the charge or re-
signs within a month. The boycott is to
include Il refusal to salute the officers
of the Horse Guards and the exclusion
OF the latter from all military festivals
and assembly rooms.
Count Witte. today, received from
the Warsaw committee of the Social
Democracy of Poland and Lithuania
an indignant Geographic denial of the
charge that the present movement in
Poland is designed to secure Separa-
ton. The dispatch said:
THE official note justifying the pro-
elamation of martial law in Poland as
oStenSibly for The purpose of fruStrat-
ing n Separatist movement is a GRIMM
al manOeuvre of the government in
tended to divide the Polish from the
Russian revolutionary movement. We
call attention to the fact of the au-
thoritieS having drowned our revolu-
tionary professions in blood and hav-
ing allowed full freedom to other
White Eagle was displayed and where
SitnkieWicZ and other orators plead
ed with the Workmen to return to their
shops ami restore peace. We affirm
that the revolutionary Polish proletar-
lat together with the revolutionary
Russian proletariat seek common free
dom and not separation"
The Poles here also deny that they
desire separation understanding fully
that Poland is between the hammer
and the anvil.
NJ. Menshikoff. in q strong article
warns the government that it would
be fatal to spill the blood of Poland
arguing that autonomy could be grant
ed without danger to the empire and
always count on the power of the firm
friendship of the Polish people. The
Novoe Vremya alone vigorously sup
ports the. governments firm attitude.
In addition to the governors dis
missed "a others are under investiga-