New-York tribune., 1906-10-30
RUSSIAN RIOTS FEARED
UNIVERSITIES CLOSED.
Troops Massed IN Cities to PreOent
Disorder TO-dau.

st. Pc ersburg. Oct. 29.-The universities Of
st. Petersburg and Kazar. two of the most i'm
portant in Russia. were closed to-day by order
of their respective faculty councils account
of the violation by students OF the stipulation
that open political meetings should not be held
in the college precincts.
The speeches delivered and the resolutions
| passed at the great mass meeting held to-day at
the university here. which lasted from noon
until o'clock, We're so openly revolutionary that
the members Of the faculty were unable TO ig
more this open defiance of the administration s
ultimatum.
The closing of the university at Kazan was
accompanied by the proclamation of a condition
Of extraordinary security" in the city and out
lying suburbs in order to enable the authorities
better to cope with the anticipated disorder. A
decision by the Kazan faculty forbids students
TO enter the university grounds.
The meeting at the university here at
tended by a great number Of workmen. pro-
fessional men and several army officers. After
fiery speeches had been delivered a resolution
was adopted saying that the grants of the En-
peror had proved valueless and that the situa
ton of the country was as intoerabe as it was
before the manifesto. second resolution
jected proposal TO celebrate October so with a
meeting ora demonstration, the anniversary
was not deserving Of special notice, and it was
provoking disorder
On the eve OF the anniversary Of the publica-
ton of the imperial manifesto giving a parlia-
nent to Russia the Prefect of Police has caused
the city to be placarded with proclamations. re-
calling the late General Trepoffs phrase Spare
no bullets" The public is warned that in case
of disorders demonstrations and even the as
sembling of crowds. armed force will be used
with all the vigor permissible under the rules
of extraordinary security" Patrols are already
on duty in the suburbs, and the house porters
this morning began a two days special vigil
It was learned to-day that the proclamation
of a state of extraordinary security" in Turk
estan on October Is was due to the attitude of
the troops composing the Frontier Corps. Owing
TO the weakness and incapacity of their COM
nander General Subbotich. the soldiers
entirely out of hand and had been holding great
meetings. at which they discussed a plan for
the troops 10 abandon the frontier march
through the empire to St Petersburg and re-
place the Romanoff dynasty by military re-
public. The proposal was seriously discussed,
and many officers were present at the meeting
Murders of merchants and travellers across
the border by their own escorts or patrols were
every day occurrences.
Extraordinary measures have been taken to
nrevent a repetition of the customs robbery of
Saturday last. Cossacks have replaced the gem
darmes as escorts of money transports the
street in front of the central postoffice will in
future be closed for half an hour at noon, while
the registered mail is unloaded, and Cossacks
with loaded carbines will keep pedestrians and
carriages at a distance.
Among the twenty-one persons arrested yes
terday on suspicion OF having been concerned in
Saturday's robbery several who have been
identified az members of the band No trace
has been found Of the booty. the exact amount
,io6 Of
carried the money away. Plans for several SINH
lar robberies which the band intended to exc
cute were found in the rooms occupied by one
of the persons arrested. and during the invest-
CATION by the police several bomb laboratories
were discovered.
In addition TO the cashier NJ. Hermann. who
was robbed by the band his two assistants and
several other customs employees have been ar
rested on suspicion OF completely in the plot