The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-01-05
WITT: CLAIMS!
MASTER STROKE.
PREMIER URGES EMPEROR TO
PRoMuLGATE MODERATE
CONSTITUTIONS.
Plan LOOKS GOOD TO CAR
POLICY OF REFRESHING Req.
ELS CONTINUES WITH VEN.
eEANcE.

st. Petersburg, Jan. Sit is learned
from high source that Premier Witte
is again urging the emperor to imme-
diately promulgate moderate consti-
tuition for the double purpose Of re-
assuring the Liberals that the present
war against the "reds" does not mean
reaction and blocking the attempt
which undoubtedly will be made when
the national assembly convenes to
transform that body into constitu-
ent assembly. Moreover, the plan has
other heavy backing and the emperor
is showing an inclination to accept It.
The premier is understood to have in
formed his majesty that such an act
would be master stroke at the pres
ent juncture and might rally the
whole body of Conservative and Lib
eral opinion to the side of the govern
ment.
Repression Continues.
The policy of depressing the revolu-
tionists continues with vengeance.
Their announcement that they pro-
posed to carry on guerilla warfare
until a general armed revolt is pre-
pared has stimulated the government
to redoubled energy.
A band of terrorists is known to be
at work here and last night there
were wholesale searches for suspects.
The city prisons are so overcrowded
that hundreds have been removed to
Schlusselburg fortress and to the Fort
ress of st. Peter and st. Paul.
Spies at Work.
Government spies are at work
among the workmen and revolutionary
societies with instructions to give
warning of meetings, which are im-
mediately surrounded, the members
searched for arms and the ringleaders
taken into custody. Nevertheless, the
workmens council and the executive
committee of the social revolutionists
are managing to evade arrest and are
in the outskirts of the city. The pa
trolls are understood to have orders
not to spare bullets if they are at
tackled by persons using bombs or re-
volvers.
Due to Lack of Troops.
An interview with Gov. Gen. Doub-
assoff is printed, in which he explains
the duration of the revolt is owing to
the extent of the region in which the
military forces are operating and ow
ing to the lack of troops, which COM
PEELED Doubassoff to await reinforce
ments from Warsaw and st. Peters
burg before giving the revolutionists
their death blow.
The papers print terrible pictures
of the conditions prevailing along the
Siberian railway There are no rail-
way officials on duty, and on the Sec
ton as far as Cheliabinsk, govern
ment of Orenburg, all the stations
have been pillaged. Complete anarchy
prevails at Irkutsk. The military
trains are running without orders or
proper engineers.
Troops Are Gathering.
Mitau, Courland, Russia, Jan. 3. -
Four columns of troops, principally
cavalry and artillery, are converging
toward Mitu and Riga.
The insurgents in the towns held by
them are instituting social demo-
GRATING administration as if they were
in permanent possession. At Frank
enburg woman of seventy and two
girls sit in the new city council.
Railroad strike Threatened.
Riga, Livonia, Russia, Jan. 8. -
Three policemen were killed during
the night.
The railroad men are again threat
ening to strike in order to obtain the
release of the arrested delegates.
Blame Jews for Strikes.
Warsaw, Jan. 3.-The police yester-
day discovered in fiat on Kacza
street, occupied by Jews, several load
ed and unloaded bombs, a quantity Of
explosives and number of revolvers.
The police closed the street and made
search of all the houses in It. Many
arrests followed.
Notices have been posted in parts of
the city summoning the people to as
semble for a massacre of the Jews,
who are accused OF provoking the
strikes and disturbances and bringing
distress to the workmen.
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