Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-12-08
MILITARY COMMANDERS Will RESIGN
# Granted Permission and Every
Government Move Seems to Be
Blocked--l500 Reported Killed.

London. Dec. S.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent of the Daily Mail in
dispatch sent by way OF Eydtkuhnen,
East Prussia, says:
prominent military commanders ev-
erywhere are requesting permission to
r. sign The minister of war himself.
U.eut. Cen. Rudgcr), has asked the
Emperor to allow him to retire. The
minister of the interior on. DurnOvO>,
and others have followed the example
of the minister of war. Count Witte
stands alone but even he is losing
heart
The correspondent of the Daily Tele-
graph at st. Petersburg in dispatch,
dated Dee. 6, while protesting against
the exaggerated and grotesQue ru-
mors" circulating abroad concerning
the horrors prevalent in Russia, admits
that almost anything is possible to the
Russian people i'm "thls time of revolu-
ton" He blames the Anarchists as be-
ing largely responsible for the existing
situation. saying:
We'll knowing that legality will de-
rrive them of their occupation, they are
working night and day to plunge the
country into serbOnian bog of chaos
and crime. Unfortunately a large Sec
ton of the population is proving SO
weak and irresolute that the country Is
no longer shaped by principles. hut is
the slave of events, and the principal
event is the delirium of the nation.
Will. Count Witte's cabinet stands
there will still be hope, for RusSia but
when it disippears, the 'detige 'Nill be-
gh
Even now the dark clouds are visi-
bly, gatlrrng. The peasants ciam"r for
land. but they will not hear Of disre-
,pc,t To the Emperor. A large per-
c,ntas- of the workmen is also in
c,nscd against the strike organizers
AMI rnvoutionists and in some cases
against the Jews
The correspondent relates two in
instanceS-onc that of a beautiful Jew
ish girl in the village of Ivanovo, ana
another that of school mistress
named DoorhontZoff in the Kuban dis
trict both of whim were torn to pieces
bv infuriatCd mobs for preaching reVo-
luton.
The CORRESPONDENT i'm conclusion says
that the first important resignation
since tn" formation of the cabinet, Will
he announced in a few days when Min
ister uf Justice NJ. Manukhin Will re-
tire To private life, but that this VIII
not affect the stability and solidarity
of the cabinet.
Public confidence In the governments
ability to weather the growing storm rs
waning fast. Premier Witte seems pow
crlrSS to cope with the new element OF
danger which the revolution Is raising
on every rand. New mutinies among
the troops are constantly reported and
the iawlcssncsS III the country is in
creasng.
The immediate danger confronting
the government is converted attack
on the country's credit. The public fear
that the government can be forced to
suspend gold payments, increases daily.
This would be the crowning achieve
ment of the revolutionists, who are sat
isii,i that with the attending financial
crash, the whole house would come
tumbiing down. The news that the
French investors who hold four-fifths
nf EuSsia's immense foreign indebted
ness. were unloading. was received with
juhlation by the revolutionists. AT the
sam" time it created veritable coia-
m,nt on the Bourse. The savings bank
WIS subjected to Il run and at the state
bank Il long line of nervous men ana
women waited for hours to exchange
paper money for gold. The bank offi-
cials did not attempt to dissuade them
ard exchanged rolls of gold for bills as
fast as the latter We're presented.
Both the runs on the banks and the
demand for foreign exchange were ac-
crcrated by circulars which the strlk-
ers and revolutionary organizations are
spreading broadcast.
At the ministry of finance, it is esti-
mated that about s5O.OO00o0 has thus
far been Withdrawn from the state
banks The only break in the ranks OF
The tclegraphers is reported , from
kazan, elsewhere the governments at
1empts to resume telegraphic commune
Ca5ion have been unsuccessful. In TINS
city there has been a partial resump-
ton of mail delivery by means OF VOL
unteers. but il requires two policemen
or two soldiers to escort every carrier.
In the postolIiCe the officials who can
be spared are working in other de-
plrtments with volunteers, some OF
whom are of high rank.
AT Moscow over 20 carloads of letters
are undistributed.
At kharkoff, it is reported that 50.-
900 soldiers have agreed not to fire on
the people and at Rostoff the Third
Grcnader Artillery consisting of 40O
IGen has held a meeting and formulat-
ed service demands. Similar action ii
is rumored has been taken by the mill
Iary engineers at Odessa and by troops
t,F -n.,,, ,.k,v NI.n f,f hn "a ".
inces.
The declaration Of martial law in Lii
YOnia Is due principally to Agrarian