The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-09
RED FLAG RIOTS
In ST. PETERSBURG
Crowds in Cars Capital Wave
Terrorist Banners and Sing
Revolutionary Songs.
ADVANCE OF POLICE
rs MET WITH STONES
Landlords in Provinces Where
Peasants Are Riotous Flock
to Moscow.

St. Petersburg, July 9.-Political
demonstrations, in which the crowds
carried red flags and sang revolutions
airy songs, occurred in many places in
st. Petersburg yesterday afternoon and
night, necessitating the interference Of
the police and military patrols.
Streetcars were held up and their
occupants were compelled to, uncover
and salute the red flag.
The most serious affair was that near
the Moscow railroad station, where an
officer, later identified as Lieutenant
Tom, made revolutionary speech to a
crowd of 1000 people. A detachment
semblage, but the people armed them
selves with stones dug up from the
streets and beat off the police and
squadron Of Cossacks. Eventually the
Cossacks were reinforced and fred
blank volley in the air, whereupon the
rioters fed to the neighboring courts.
Only few persons were slightly in,
and taken to the fortress.
A meeting which was addressed by
orators from a window of the Consti-
tutional Democratic club was dispersed
by mounted gendarmes. Several per-
sons were wounded with sabers and
performance at the Peoples Palace
was broken up, the audience singing
VIC 4hdIocu1dlSc DIS Luey QlSpeIbeO.
The guards on the. mail wagons are
now armed with rifles, owing to the
increasing number Of attacks made on
these vehicles. Six more newspapers
of this city have been confscated.
Landlords Take Flight.
Landlords from provinces where
agrarian disorders are occurring are
| focking into Moscow and st. Peters
h11r 10 ton
their property, without which, they de-
clare it is impossible to live on their
estates.
Some Of the papers regard General
Trepoff's pronouncement in favor Of .
ministry composed Of constitutional
! democrats as a sham deathbed repent
ance, designed to give the emperor and
Econsider it to be confirmation of the
report that Trepoff has fallen from Ia
Ever and is trimming his sails to the pre-
Yailing tbreezes. s.
The holy synod has issued strict in
/ stTuctions forbidding the printing e.
itabEshments OF nionAstsries from pub.
fishing political tracts or in any way
| Report Sent Other Powers.
Interior Minister Atolypin has sent
| to Ambassador Meyer and the repre-.
snetatives Of other countries the gov
ernment g official report Of the BialY-
stok rioting for transmission to their
respective governments. While this
unprecedented action on the part of the
Russian government does not involve
a recognition of the right Of foreign
countries to make representations re-
garding the internal affairs Of the en-
pire, it is distinct recognition of the
power Of public opinion abroad and Ia.
dicates the solicitude Of foreign gov.
ernments to know the Russian side of
the case. The report is practically
identical with that submitted by M,
Stolypin to parliament.
Douma Considers Report.
After several unimportant interpella-
tions Of the government today, the
lower house Of parliament resumed CON.
sideration Of the report Of It's commit
tee on the Bialystok riotinR.