Warren sheaf., 1905-11-09
.EDICT FAILS TO
END REVOLUTION
CAR GRANTS RUSSIA A CONSTI-
TUTIoNAL FORM oF
GOVERNMENT.
Action Comes Too Late, However, and
Is Followed by Terrible Scenes of
Bloodshed Throughout Empire
Thousands Killed and Wounded.


night the autocracy of the Romanoffs
and the old order of things ceased to
exist in Russia. Emperor Nicholas
has surrendered, and Count Witte
comes into power as minister-presidenr
with AN imperial mandate which will
enable him to convert the farcicaI ma
tlonal assembly into a real legislative
body elected by greatly extended suf.
frage and to confer upon the people
fundamental civil liberties, including
free speech.
The Manifesto.
The following is the text of the i'm
perlal manifesto:
We. Nicholas the Second by the
grace of God emperor and autocrat OF III
the Russias, grand duke of Finland.
ETC.. declare to all our faithful subjects
that the troubles and agitation in our
capitals and in numerous other places
I'll our heart with excessive pain and
sorrow. The happiness of the Russian
sovereign is indissolubly bound up
with the happiness of our people. and
the sorrow Of our people is the sorrow
Of the sovereign. From the present dis
orders may arise great national disrup-
ton. They menace the integrity and
unity Of our empire. --
The supreme duty imposed upon US
by our sovereign office requires US 10
eHace ourselves and to use all the force
and reason at our command to hasten
N securing the unity and coordination
II the power of the central government
and to assure the success of measures
for pacifcation in all circles OF public
life, which are essential to the we'll
being OF our people.
We. therefore. direct our govern
ment to carry out our inflexible will
in the following manner: --...--.
Flrst-To extend TO the population
the immutable foundations of civic
liberty. based on the real inviolability
OF person, freedom OF conscience,
speech. union and association.
Second suspending the al
ready ordered elections to the state
douma. to invite the participation in
the douma. so far as the limited time be-
fore the conyocation of the douma will
permit those classes of the population
now completely deprived of electoral
rights. leaving the ultimate develop
ment of the principle of the electoral
right in general to the newly estab-
Ished legislative order of things.
''Third-To establish as an unchange-
able rule that no law shall be enforce
able without the approval of the state
douma and that it shall be possible fo1
the elected of the people to exercise real
legality OF the acts of the authorities ap-
pointed by us.
We appeal to all faithful sons Of
Russia to remember their duty to-
wards the fatherland. to aid in termi-
mating these unprecedented troubles
and to apply their forces, in cooperation
with us. to the restoration of calm
and peace upon our natal SOIL
Given at Peterhof. October 80. in the
eleventh year of our reign.
:: NICHOLAS"
Mob Rule Rampant.
st. Petersburg, Nov. ALTHOUGH
Wednesday passed in comparative
quiet in st. Petersburg and Moscow a
flood of dispatches from all parts Of
the empire report disorders in many
cities. with heavy total of dead and
wounded The people while celebrat-
ing their new found freedom were in
many instances set upon by Cossacks
and police, while sometimes the spirit
of mob violence broke forth and the
lower elements of the population gave
themselves to plllage and destruction.
The most serious disorders apparently
occurred at Odessa, where hundreds Of
persons are reported to have been
killed or wounded and where the riot
ing is momentarIly expected to fare
cut into repetition of the slaughter
OF last July and at Kazan, where a
three days reign of terror was ended
to their barracks
Martial Law Declared
London. Nov "A dispatch to z
news agency from Odessa says that
martial law was declared there Thurs
day afternoon The whole garrison has
turned out and now occupies the city
Police control has also been reestab-
lished All citizens are forbidden TO
leave their houses after nine O'Clock in
the evening. at which hour all lights
must be out Maxim guns have been
placed on positions commanding hun
dred streets Under these conditions,
the dispatch says. repetition of tn.
fearful scenes is practically impossible
Awful Slaughter.
London. Nov. 3-A dispatch to the
Evening Standard from Odessa says:
THE casualties Wednesday are be-
lieyed to have amounted to 5000 killed
and wounded In the Jewish quarters
bodies still strew the streets and side
walks Jewish women and children
were strangled and hacked to pieces
in the streets where the mObs gained
the upper hand. A Red Cross doctor
tells me that the Kishineff horrors
were repeated a hundredfold. The stu
dents alone saved the city from whole
sale sack and massacre The military
are now placing hundred machine