The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-11-24
0EPuTATloN PRESENTS A MANI
FEsTo TO THE RUSSIAN
PEOPLE.
PLAN A POLITICAL STRIKE
~REDs" WILL NOW DEVOTE EN-.
ERGlEs TO STIRRING UP
MORE TROUBLE.

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that Russia, apprehending mutiny of
prisoners on board the transports con.
veying them from Japan, has asked
the Japanese government to convoy
them with warships to Vladivostok,
but the Japanese declined to do so.
Strong enmity between the members
of the army and navy on the vessels is
said to exist.
Admiral Rojestvensky is reported to
| be keeping in his cabin on the Boron.
| eli.
Gen. Danieloff, who came here to ar
ers, has left Toxic in haste for Maya.
saki.
Poles Plead for Autonomy.
st. Petersburg, Nov. 22.-The dele
cation of twenty-four prominent Poles,
comprising representatives of all the
principal parties in Poland, except the
socialists, and also including men,
| bers of the Catholic, Evangelical and
Hebrew churches, which came to st.
| Petersburg to plead the cause of Po-
| land, to make known theattitude of
that country toward the government,
and to outline the demands which
ought to be Immediately granted in or
der to restore tranquility, issued
manifesto yesterday to the Russian
people reviewing the sad history of
Poland in the last century, declaring
that the Poles have no thought of sep.
aration or of independence, and ask
ing the support of all parties in Rus
STA. The manifesto firmly declares
that the normal and peaceful
l. Existence of Poland
will only be made possible by the
granting of autonomy, permission to
use the Polish language in the schools
and in the courts and by the local ad.
ministration and the entrusting of the
Poles with the government of the
kingdom The assertions recently
made in a government communication
regarding the causes which led to the
declaration of martial law in Poland
are categorically denied. 1t is insisted
that the country is not in state Of
revolution and that the acts of vic.
lence which formed the pretext for the
imposition of martial law were not the
acts of the Polish people as whole,
but of the same revolutionary ele'
ments which were to be found
throughout all Russia.
Zemstvo in Debate.
Moscow, Nov %. - The zemstvo
convention yesterday devoted two
long sessions to discussion of the
attitude it should adopt toward the
new government, without coming to
decision. The debate indicated quite
clearly, however, the existence of two
apparently irreconcilable parties as
we'll as the lines on which the divis-
ion ultimately will be made, though
the relative strength of the parties
was not shown. A score of orators
| participated in the debate and they
were about evenly divided between
the advocates of the immediate con-
vocation of constituent assembly
and those who are urging cooperation
with the new government so as to
save the country from anarchy if not
a complete revolution.
Plan Political Strike.
| ST. Petersburg, Nov. 22.-With the
collapse of the strike the leaders Of
the reds" say they will now devote
their energies to the preparation of a
universal political strike, to sustain
the revolutionary program when the
national assembly meets.
These plans, which were suddenly
upset by the precipitation Of the rail.
road strike last month, are exceeding
ly ambitious, involving the co-opera-
tion not only of the workmen of the
cities, but the peasantry and, if pos
| sible, the army and navy. The pro-
paganda among the soldiers and sail.
Iors will be pushed energetically.
The leaders already claim that they
have organized the peasantry in five
districts Of Kharkoff province, the
peasants having agreed not to work
for the landlords when the strike IL
called.
Il CONSCIOUS MANY MONTHS