New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-02
HOPE OF CONSTITUTION
COUNT WITTE'S POLICY.
Remeseing Agitation-Spies Act'0e
-4norchy an Siberia.

St Petersburg Jan. lit is learned from
nigh source that Premier White is again strong
" urging the Emperor Immediately to pronlul-
gate a moderate constitution, for the couole
purpose Of reassuring the Liberals that the
present war against the Reds does not mean re-
action and Of blocking the attempt which I'M
6oubtedlv will be made when the National AS
sembly convenes to transform that body INTO
Constituent Assembly TIE plan has other
heavy backing and the Emperor is showing d"
inclination to accept it. The Premier is under
stood to have informed his majesty that Such
an act would be a master stroke at the preseii.
,,,,,c+,,ra and might rally the whole BODY OF
[~-.o,,,ati,-e and Liberal opinion to the side OF
the government
The policy of repression continues oano
of Terrorists is known to be at work mere anu
last night there We're searches for suspects Inc
,;.,- ,,rieoos are so overcrowded that hundreds
have been removed to Schlusselpurg roFtles
and 20 the Fortress of ST, Peter ana d Fau4
Government spies are at work among the "oih
,,,er and revolutionary societies and meetings
sre Immediately surrounded the members
searched for arms and the ringleaders taken
into custody Nevertheless, the Workmens
Council and the executive committee Of the So
cial Revolutionists are managing to evade ar
resi- and are meeting each day at q different
Mace .n the outskirts OF the city. the pauolS
are understood TO have orders not 10 spare
bullets If they are attacked by persons using
bombs or revolvers
An interview with Governor General Douoa5-
soft is printed to-day in which he explains thh1
the duration of the revolt was owing 10 me eA-
tent OF the region in which the military FORCES
were operating and the lack of troops, when
oo,,,ne1ied him to await reinforcemcnts from
Warsaw and St Petersburg before giving the
revolutionists their death blow. He says;
The most difficult task to drive them
from their base on the KazGn Railroad between
Moscow and Perovo. three miles east OF Na9s
so as "a rreyent their escape Both these tasks
were successfully accomplished
The strikers OF the Prukharof mills who held
fine proprietor as a hostage, were ready TO sur
rerder on Friday. but Colonel MINI. who CON
Quoted the negotiations. declined to accept their
surrender unless they also Delivered up 'Ne
rebels who had sought refuge there.
The Governor General also says that the ar
ti1ferv bonbarded only the houses from which
the insurgents fired.
Reinforcements entering Courland from
four sides. but the leaders of the Lettish revolt
are imperturbable
The papers publish narrowing accounts Q.
conditions prevailing along the Siberian Rail
way There are no railway officials on duty
and on the section as far as Cheliabinsk Gov
eminent OF Orenburg, all the stations have oeen
piuaged. Anarchy prevails at Irkutsk- The
military trains are running without order or
proper engineers.
a man who has just returned here from Mos
cow accounts for the exaggeration in the reports
Of the slaughter there by the fact that the troops
and artillery generally used blank cartridges
fer the purpose of frightening the insurgents
He witnessed battery of three guns lombard
f house from which shots were fired. but not
sinrle shell or shot was used The man added
that he understood that two students, Of
Prokharoff and Schmidt. the owners OF the fac
tory destroyed were ringleaders in the organiza-
lion Of the Drujina.