The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-04
SEIZE
BAL TIC ISLANDS.
Assurances Given that Seizure Is
Only to Prevent Snug Y
ling Of Arms.

st. Petersburg, July 4.-The occupa-
ton by Russia of the Aland islands,
between Finland and Sweden, the AS.
ISOLATED Press Is officially informed, is
one Of the measures taken to prevent
the smuggling of arms and ammunition
thru Finland into Russia, and there is
no intention of violating the treaty Of
Paris of 1856 by rebuilding the fortifi-
cations at Bomarsund, destroyed by
the British feet during the Crimean.
war. The military force sent to the
islands consists of few hundred ma
rines and infantry, who are living in
tents. 49,. q
/, Troops Directed Massacre.
A point strongly brought out in the
parliamentary report on the massacre
Of jews. at Bialystok is that there was
no religious hatred Of the Jews among
the peaceful Russian population. The
that after the rioting was started it
was directed by the police and sup
ported by the troops, who fired only at
Jews and Jewish houses. ''' <.-. f
' Sherometieff, the police officer who
fled from Bialystok to Wilma after the
rioting, has been summoned to St..
Petersburg by Interior Minister Stoly-
pin.
A meeting of the cabinet, called by
return
from his visit to Emperor Nicholas at
FPeterhof, began at 1880 o'clock last
night and continued until late into the
night. - q AZ r
Little doubt is felt tn at the meeting
was connected with the change in the
ministry: tho. individual ministers de-
cline to admit that explanation: - <
Hints dropped by constitutional dem
oocratic leaders indicate that .overtures
TOR their, participation in ministry at
the present stage have to do with =
mixed cabinet under the leadership Of
former, Minister Of Agriculture Yer
moloff. This, however, is regarded as
utterly impossible, the unvarying an
sWeFaup to the present time being that
nothing but a parliamentary and re-
sponslble ministry under sconstitu-
tlonal democratic premier will suffice;
Ebut the. Associated Press has strong
ground for believing the constitutional
! democrats, in spite of their protesta.
tions, will participate in ministry
under Ivan. Shipoff, former minister Of
finance, IT the latter can be induced to
accept the premiership. !
NJ. Yermoloff is quoted as saying yes
| terday that he already had been invited
| by the emperor TO- form a cabinet and
that. it was possible that he or former
Minister of Commence Timiriazeff MIGHT
De Inc neAC premier II the emperor, as
IS altogether probable, declines to make
a full surrender to the constitutions
4 democratic pretensions.
" Riot at Tsarkoe-selo.
An incipient riot is reported to have
occurred among the cuirassiers of tn,
guards at Tsarkoe-Selo because the,
had been ordered not to read the news
papers. Officers of the guard VIII,
were questioned on the subject declared
that the severity of the measures takel
| to. prevent the spread Of the revolution
airy propaganda among the troops i
aarousing such intense resentment anon,
the mon that the lives of the officer
themselves are endangered. They speal
most pessimistically Of the spread O.
disloyalty in the army. IL
League of Rebels.
All doubt of the existence of an OF
ganized military league, which Is in
spring. mutinies and uprisings in tn
army, has been set at rest by the dis
covery of the seal and documents of tn
league during the search of soldiers at
tached to staff headquarters at Win
Land detailed to various regiments, O
the third corps War Minister Rudi
ger has ordered strict Investigation t
be made of all detachments Of troop
In order to determine the extent Of tn
revolutionary propaganda and the bes
methods OF counteracting it.