Connecticut western news., 1905-11-16
SIBERIA NOW AFLAME Outbreaks. Are Reported From Various Points In Czar's
 Asiatic Realm.
GENERAL STRIKE PROCLAIMED

Workmen Rose Against Issuing of Mar.
 tial Law Decree and Other Expressive
 Acts-Polish Situation Despe, hte-ln.
 tervention In Russian Affairs by Cor.
 man Emperor.
 The upheuval in Russia following the promulgation of the reform mani. festo issued by the emperor has reach. ed Vladivostok and Yeniseisk and other extreme points of the empire. From various sources come reports of un up. rising at Vladivostok. Many persons have been killed, and martial law has been proclaimed in the city.
 The American embassy in St. Peters. burg has received from Consul Greenef details of the outbreak which followed the departure of the Russian armoreo cruisers Gromoboi and Rossia. The people who had gathered in great crowds in the streets became excited by intiammatory speeches. Many sol diers and sailors were also in an angry mood, having expected to go hom, with the squadron. The mob began tc break windows and pillage.
 They set fire to the theater, the Gold en Horn hotel, to several blocks ot Chinese buildings in the northern pari of the city and to the officers resi- dences and other buildings in the east ern quarter. Seventy buildings were consumed. Troops were summoned to restore order and fired frequent vol leys, killing many persons.
 In view of the condemnation to death of many of the sailors who took part in a recent mutiny at Cronstudt. the delay in carrying out the reforms out lined in the imperial mnnifestoes. the council of workmen's delegates decided to proclaim general strike throughout Russia.
 There has been little Improvement in the agrarian situation in the centra provinces. The peasants In many case are fighting among themselves, and or ganized bands are attacking villages of considerable size for the purpose plundering them.
 Emperor Nicholas and the Russian court will not return to St Petersburg this winter His majesty has decided to go back to Tsarskoe-Selo.
 His decision not to go to the capi. tai is regarded as unfortunate not only for it's moral effect, but because it keeps him surrounded by court infiu ences and out of close touch wltl Count Witte. Members Of the em peror's entourage have strongly adNis ed against his being in St Petersburg when the national assembly meets. re calling to his maJesty's mind the fata results of Louis XVI. agreeing to leavt Versailles and place himself at tn, mercy of the populace of Paris in 17s9
 With the proclamation of martial law in the provinces of Poland comes ap- prehenson that the revolutionary dis turbances of the last few months will be tame in comparison with what will follow should the soldiers interfere with the strikers. The people are exasperut ed. Quantities of arms are constantly coming into the big cities of Poland.
 It is now known that the dreaded intervention of Germany in the Rus. sian crisis has come. The kaiser when he learned of the Cronstadt riots sent a wireless message to the czar offer ing to place the German northern squadron at his disposal. The czaI sent back a message of thanks.
 Evidence accumulates that both Ger many and Austria have given Russia assurances of support, but of what ma ture cannot be learned. Both are inter ested, each having q Polish problem on hand in not raising the Polish hopes of restoration of the ancient kingdom of Poland.