The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-06
READY TO ABJURE CAR.
zemstvos Threaten Ii Renounce Aus,

tOCfaCy. AS
st. Petersburg, July 1.-THE zemIf
stvos of st. Petersburg MOSCOW
have decided to present a memorial to
the czar in which they will declare that
unless the reforms promised are not
in operation by the middle Of July they
will announce a constitutional governs
ment within their respective provinces.
Members Of the zemstvos are aware of
the gravity Of their course. IT 1T rel
suits in their prosecution, It is bel
lieved his will be a long step in the
direction of the constitution.
1t is understood that the most VIC,
lent disorders prevail in many. OF the
provinces and are spreading, but thel
officials prevent the public from know
ing much about the troubles.
They also prohibit the zemstvos from
discussing the matter at their public
meetings. Families of the r~eseryists,t
supported by all the working classes
ming of the week to learn from the
zenstvoists the meaning of the war
measures, and also the meaning of the
promises of internal reform.
All the liquor shops are closed during
en- out of st. Petersburg within a few
days. The temper of the officers OF
the guard regiments is shown by the
fact that since the meeting at Tsarkoe
Selo they have been demanding per-
mission to hold another meeting. They
insist that they must Eenceforth be-
relieved from police duty.
49,
Refuse to Give up Ships.
st. Petersburg, July 4.-The unpre,
cedented spectacle Of a powerful bat
tleship cruising about in the Black sea
in the hands of a crew who under the
rules of International law cannot be req
garded as other than pirates. and of
the admiral in command Of the rest OF
the IIuxine fleet frankly confessing
his inability to cope with the situation
and ordering the fires Of his warships
to be drawn, has stupetied the Russian
admiralty.
The whereabouts of the Grant bat
tleship Kniaz Potemlline are unknown;
no plans for capturing her have been
devised, and the policy Of noninterfer-
ence seems to be at present in vogue.
The situation woul furnish a libretto
for a comic opera We're not the ele-
ments of the plot so serious.
Dispatches from Odessa and Sevas-
topol, which are confirmed by the adj
miralty, cleared up fully the present
situation. The kniaz Potemkine has
sailed from Odessa and now is at large,
and her crew, reinforced by synlpathiz-.
ers from shore, is still in control Of the,
vessel. On the Georgi Pobiedonosetz,'
which cast it's fortunes with the. Kniaz
Potemkine after it's arrival at odessa
and landed it's officers, the more loyal
or more timorous portion of the crew.
again gained the upper and and
agreed to surrender and disarm the
ship. The rest of the squadron re-.
turned to Sevastopol without v%enturing,
to take UP the gauntlet thrown down
by the mutfnous crew of the Kniaz Po-,
temkine, and Admiral Kruger, after a.
council of war, finding that he could
not depend UPON his crews, ordered the
fires drawn beneath the boilers of his
ships n gave permission to all the
disaffected officers and sailors to quit
the vessels and go ashore.
The sailors of the Ekatrina IL.
were Known to be so mutinous that the,
battleship was left behind when the
squadron sailed for Odessa, the whole
crew dismissed and the ship disarmed.