The San Francisco call., 1905-01-25
FOREIGNERS
ARE FLEEING
TO FRONTIER
Era of Bomb Throwing May
Follow MObS' Defeat.
Pyoclamatloms Call for Blood

shouted "Hurrah." in token of vic
tory and this possibly was the reason
that the strikers. believing they had
already won the day. refrained from
committing excesses yesterday.
Father Gopon's popularity Is unim-
paired, but 1t is already evident that
the Social Democrats are getting the
upper hand and that they are encour-
aging the people to violence. From a
trustworthy source 1t is learned that
Father Gopon sent a letter to the So
cial Democrats in the following terms
They have fired upon and massacred U.S. but
we not vanquished and the day of our
triumph is nigh. Do not spoil triumph by
taking UP arms and resorting to violence
Content yourselves with destroying the porr
traits OF him who Is no longer worthy to be
our Emperor.
This pacific admonition irritated the
Social Democrats and does not meet
with response from the workingmen,
who apparently are thirsting for
vengeance and are clamoring for their
leaders to distribute the arms.
The revolutionists are reported to be
actively preparing bombs and Internal
machines to wreck the post and tele-
graph offices and destroy other Gov
ernment property. They talk wildly
of issuing a manifesto declaring a pro-
visional government. They seem to
have broken completely with the
Zemstvoists, whom they treat with
contempt on account of what they call
their trucking" to autocracy. Even
Prince Truebetskoi, who led the re-
formers of Moscow, is regarded by
them with suspicion and even hatred
because in an article published by the
Fravo he described the revolutionists
as Port Arthur inside of Russia -
which Russia would have to over
throw.
AGITATORS UNDER ARREST.
Hessen, editor of the Pravo, whose
advanced liberal views are well known,
has been arrested. The Workingmen's
Club has been closed by order of the
Prefect of Police, Professor Karsaff
and Annensky and Pechsechonoff
! three well-known writer's, and Town
Councillors Kedrin and Schnitnikoff
who are also lawyers, were arrested
during the night.
Traffic between ST. Petersburg and
Moscow and ST. Petersburg and War
| saw is uninterrupted. The Northern
express arrived on schedule time.
During the afternoon came the news
that workmen were going out at Kov-
no and Wilma, but particulars were
| lacking.
Although the crowds on the Nevsky
Prospect continued to increase, just as
| lHSy Olu yesterday, IneTe were no col
| lisions Moreover. during the day
several Of the smaller mills resumed
work, and the men at other mills as
sured their employers that they were
anxious to return, but that the striker.
threatened to kill them if they did so
The widest rumors were in circula
ton. A mob was reported to be march
ing on Tsarskoe-Selo to see the En-
peror, as the multitude marched tt
Versailles to ask King Louis XVI O
France for bread in 1779; but the story
is utterly without foundation.
In certain quarters, where the woe
of Russia are always laid at the doc
of Great Britain, the feeling agains
the British had become intense, it be
ing charged that the British are sup
plying money to bring about a revo
luton.
Cossacks, while dispensing a GROVE
CT strikers at o'clock, drew thei
swords and wounded several men.
Work has been suspended at TIL
works Of the Belgian Electrical Com
pany, which furnishes the majority 0
the electric supply of st. Petersburg.