The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-24

the Russian officials The landlords
there and elsewhere now prefer to APP
peal to the revolutionists for projections
rather than to the car.
Communication with Odessa is cut OH.
The revolutionists hope that their
forces in that region will compel Gen
eral Kaulbars to surrender to them. In
| the Caucasus the viceroy has appealed
| to the revolutionists for help In pre-
venting massacres by the Tartars and
Armenians.
In st. Petersburg, Moscow and thru
out the empire the reactlonarles are
/ preaching a crusade against non Rus-
slams. especially Jews. The Novoe
i Vremya urges the government to arm
Il all patriots. Thus the massacres IN
i Odessa and Kiev are likely to be re-
4 peated. the lives of Jews being endan.
; gered in many places.
Life and Death Struggle.
The conflict between autocracy and
the people is essentially one OF life
and death. It must decide whether the
present dynasty shall live, or whether
: the masses will gain the right to live
and not merely exist.
From one end of the country to the
! other the revolutionists have klndled
; the fires of rebellion. In the Baltic
provinces on the north the people are
1 thoroly aroused and already have sue
ceeded so well that the authority OF
the car has been practically nulllhed
= In the southern provinces the peasants
:, have Joined with the revolutionlsts OF
y the cities in the anti-government
y propaganda. Land owners have beer
their victims and SO thoro has been thu
# devastating work of the peasants tina
le few estates remain unchanged. While
IS the former owners are fugitives.
D. Warfare by Peasants.
y In the east, the Kharkoff region, tn
peasants for weeks have been engage
in a similar warfare against the nobll
IN ity and the autocfacy, everything While
to stands for governmental authority 1
lg their sight. They, too, have succeede
~ in thoroly terrorizing the land owner
~ and in devastating the country, despit
the efforts of General Maximovltcl
with his Cossacks, who have indulge
- in all sorts of brutalities in hopele'
Il attempt to subdue the peasantry.
~ To the west in Poland it has bee
;. necessary to declare martial law
the hope of keeping the lnsurrectlo
ary forces in check.
ms Declare Dynasty Doomed.
5u- This does not take into consider
lie ton the new general strike which n
;us been inaugurated by the revolutions
ct. and which the leaders of the moveme
: declare is certain to end in the owe
Of throw of the government and INC
lin dentally the dynasty. 1t is this stn
nee which the government has feared. L
i1 %, Workmen demonstrated their gre
and power during the last strike, when
ON tieing up all industry they wrung frt
the car his manifesto Of Oct. 30. L
present strike is to bring about NJ
Government in the opinion OF the str
ers.
om The revolutionists do not expect tt
~. victory without paying heavily for
Law, They are prepared for bloodshed a
Ter for the exercise of all kinds Of repr
ook sive measures by the government. L
ave thew do not finch from the dang
and they face. The council OF workmen
rec st. Petersburg openly voted for arm
, Us instruction and the liberal organ
nan tons elsewhere have supported them
to- this stand.
'"n Civil War in Moscow.
uos And the civil war has actually
vow gun. Moscow, to which all Russia lo'
to the real leader of any movem
- affecting the country, because 1t IS
ancient capital Of the country, IS e'
hin at the present moment the scene
1itv, bloody conflicts between armed re
re lutionists and the troops which rem
G zig loyal T.,
ger In many of the principal streets
80, a. ricades have been erected and they
',rs. bravelv defended by the insurrect
der. lists. Behind their improvised shell
lem- they have faced the troops even IN
un- fire of the machine guns, and W
tho thew have suffered heavily they sN
curt TO repay the debt with interest.
In st. Petersburg.
b.
urns In St. Petersburg the strike has
ID at proved as successful as the leaders
d all hoped. Many of the factories
the able to operate yesterday, because t
;urns employees did not obey the strike
3oO der. The car service was not II
IN IN fered with and even the gas and
.u nno trio lighting plans were in operation
',foo'. rbo rouernment has been able to