Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-07-12
STOP DISORDERS.
Emperor Nicholas Directs a Grand
Duke to Check DislOyalty
Among tine Troops.
ATTEMPT may PROVE FUTILE
Radicals Plan to Force Government
to Attempt to Dissolve ParlIn-
ment and Thus Precipitate
the Inevitable Struggle.

the Inevitable Struggle.
st. Petersburg, July 6.-Emperol
Nicholas has taken the almost unpre
cedented step of publicly directing
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitct
commander of the forces in the mill
tary district of st. Petersburg, to in,
vestigate and take measures to stop
the disorders" among the troops
Accompanying these instructions were
orders relieving prince vaszilchikoff,
commander Of the guard corps, from
duty and dismissing in disgrace Gen.
ozeroff, commander of the first guard
division and Gen. Gadon, commander
OF the Preobrajensky regiment, the
first battalion Of which was recently
disgraced for expressing sympathy with
parliament and protesting against do.
Ing police duty. Gadon is said to be a
descendent of an American named Cor
don, the name having been Russianized
by lapse Of time.
All attempts to purge the army of
the spirit Of disloyalty now that it has
invaded the pampered regiments Of
the guard will, however, probably
prove futile. No isolation of the troops
will any longer suffice to prevent the
spread Of the contagion. While the
majority of the troops probably are
still faithful the undermining of the
military supports of the government
is proceeding very rapidly. The. revo-
lutionists are rejoicing at the success
of what they regard as being the final
phase of the work Of preparing for the
coming revolution.
The members Of the group Of toll in
parliament are secretly collaborating a
plan to force matters to a head. As
the first step they propose that the
lower house adopt resolution declar. |
ing the country is not bound to pay
its obligations to the government 50
long as the emperor refuses to yield
to the demands of parliament. If the
constitutional democrats decline to
join them in the programme Of repu-
diation the group of toll propose to
issue a manifesto to the country
Their purpose plainly is to compel the
government to attempt to dissolve par
lament and thus force a rupture.
The issues of five newspapers of this
city were confiscated Wednesday night
Over 200 papers in the interior were
seized during the last fortnight.
Dispatches received here Thursday
from Samara state that two regiments
that important provincial
capital have mutinied and presented a
series Of political and service demands.
The officers promised to satisfy the
service demands If the mutineers
would return to duty, but the men re-
,lied that they would be satisfied only
With compliance with all their de.
hands.
The mut1neers command the situa-
ion but are not indulging in excuses
he situation is complicated by the
act that in Samara the revolutionists Z
re pushing a movement to proclaim
republic in case a general strike is 0
eclared and may seize the present V
pportunity to further their aims. II
The ferment among the soldiers and u
lilors at Odessa and Sebastopol con- W
nues. :.
No inkling Of the reported ioting o
nd pillaging at Vladivostok has
cached the Russian public, but the
ilitary authorities who control the Ell
legraphs would be able to withhold Y
# days any news Of such conditions Il
London, July 6.-The correspondent a
Toxic Of the Daily Telegraph re- cr
rts that the East Asiatic Steamship 81
steamer Colonia. which left
adivostok on account of disturbances in
ere, and which has now arrived al m
lgasaki, reports that all shops and at
uses in Vladivostok were closed by
lice order, and that on June 80 30 L
lgleaders Of the rioters were arrested
d eight big cases Of dynamite seized Sc
the Cossacks. The same corre- liz
ondent states that the Russian vol mi
teer steamer Kitai, laden with mill Ii,
y stores, struck a mine in Possiet sin
Y and sank. rel
The executions In Hardin in connec-
n with the revolutionary movement, =
Daily Telegraph's correspondent