The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-02
ANARCHY REIGNS Blood Flows in Streets of Many Russian Cities Out side St. Petersburg
 and Moscow.
VICTIMS IN THE THOUSANDS
SCENES OF SHOCKING SLAUGH- TER IN ODESSA AND KIEFE

MObs Attack Jews and PIIIage Their
 Shops--Latter in Defense Hurl Bombs
 from Roofs and windOws-Three
 Days Reign of Terror in Kazan-Dif-
 acuIty of witte's Task GrOws-sO- ciaIists and TerrorIsts Believe They
 Have Government Stampeded-Free-
 dom sOf the Press AnnOunced-Over-
 looked fin Hurried Drawing Up of Im-
 periaI ManifestO--ShouId Have Been
 Included With Freedom of Speech.
 St. Petersburg, Nov. 1.-Though to- day passed in comparative quiet in St. Petersburg and Moscow, a flood of dis patches from all parts of the empire report disorders in many cities, with a heavy total of dead or wounded. The people, while celebrating their new found freedom, were in many instances , set upon by Cossacks and police, while in other localities the spirit of mob vio- fence broke forth and the lower ele- ments of the population gave them selves up to pillage and destruction.
 The most serious disorders apparent ly occurred at Odessa, where hundreds of persons are reported to have been killed or wounded and where the riot ing is momentarily expected to flare out into repetition of the slaughter of last July, and at Kazap, where three days reign of terror was ended only by the retirement of all Cossacks to their barracks. --: a,
 A deplorable feature of the news from the interior is that anti-Jewish upris- ings have occurred in many places, es- pecially in South Russia, where the populace vented it's hatred of the Jews by sacking their stores and clubbing, the members of the race, in some cases resorting to the torch.
 The attacks on the crowds are re- ported to be, in most cases, the work of Cossacks, who many times were appar- ently Let loose upon the people without direction or authority.
 Tn St. Petersburg to-day General Tre- poff, in accordance with his announce ment of last night, prevented the re- sumption of revolutionary demonstra- tions by having the crowds dispersed whenever and wherever they gathered. Kazan place and the Nevsky Prospect Were several times cleared by Cossacks and police, and the crowds were driven from the vicinity of the university with { whips and the flats of sabres. General Trepoff was aided by the weather, which was cold and rainy, and which kept many people off the streets.
 Count Witte's task in securing a fair trial for the new experiment in consti- tutionalism is most difficult one. He is disappointed at not securing the support of the liberals, on whose co-op- eration he counted. Many of these are holding aloof and seem rather to enjoy the predicament in which the new pre- mier finds himself.
 Meanwhile the socialists and revolu- tionaries who believe the government stampeded are bending every effort to keep the movement going and to pre- cipitate catastrophe from which they hope a socialistic republic will emegre This is a consummation as little to be desired by the majority. of liberals, es- pecially the zemstvos as by the gov- ernment itself and therein lies the chiet hope that the forces gathering under the banner of Count Witte is suffi- ciently strong to make head against the revolutionary movemet ad the spirit of unrest throughout the country. Count Witte is doing his utmost to meet the chief objections against the new re- gime. In addition to the promised am- nesty for political prisoners, liberty of the press has been granted, Count Witte offered to a deputation of edit tors who called on him to demand the abolition of the censorship regulation the amusing explanation that in the hurry of writing the manifesto the words liberty of the press" were inad- vertently omitted, and that the omis- sion had not been noticed until the complaint was made. The Official Ga zette formally announces that the term ''liberty of speech" issto be interpreted as including the press.
 Against the demand for the removal of General Trepoff, Count Wftte, how ever is inbexible. He informed the del- egation from the strike committee which called on him to-day to demand the release of their imprisoned con- rades and the removal of General Tre- poff, that it would be madness for him to dismiss the only man capable of maintaining order in the city at the present juncture.
 Nominally for the purpose of perfect ing their organization and gathering hands the strike committee tonight decided not to call the St. Petersburg industrial strike at noon Friday next but to resume it at an opportune moment.
 The St. Petersburg railroad men have resolved to continue their strike, de claring they have assurances that the soldiers of the railroad battalion will desert if a little persuasion in the shape of train wrecking is employed.
 The newspapers will not be issued to-
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