The San Francisco call., 1906-06-17
CIVIL WAR
RAGING IN
B|ALYSTOK
Jewish RevolutionistS Are
Avenging Victims
Of Massacre.
MARTIAL Law Proclaimed
and Troops Pour
Into City.
Anti Semitic Outbreaks
Are Reported in Other
Russian Districts.

LA0OSl0lL
BIALYSTOK, Warsaw. June 16.-In
order TO avenge the victims of the
massacre Jewish revOlutiOnists hidden
on the rocfs OF houses and behind
fences and the draperies Of windows
have fired all day with revolvers and
rifles at the Government buildings
and workmen and peasants passing in
the streets, and one band in ambush in
a factory fred upon the station and
approaching trains.
The exact number OF victims is un-
known, but II is estimated that 100
persons have been killed. Two hun
dred wounded are in two hospitals of
the city
Martial law has been proclaimed and
many troops are arriving.
ST PETERSBURG, June 16--Uncon-
hrmed rumors are in circulation to the
effect that snti-Jewish outbreaks have
occurred at Brest-Litovsk and Wilma
It is reported also that a Catholic
priest has been torn TO pieces at Bialy-
stok, but this is officially denied
NJ. Vinaver. a Constitutional Demo-
cratic member Of the lower house of
Parliament, received the following dis
patch from Bialystok, dated 2:45 this
morning;
The rioting proceeded throughout
the day with unabated fury and is con-
tinuing. with no signs of cessation. 1t
is impossible TO send particulars OF the
horrors"
The direct kilograms from Bialystok
10 the newspapers here today contain
no fresh information. No doubt the
censor controls the telegraph
BUTCHERY WILL CONTINUE.
The Bourse Gazette prints a special
dispatch from Grodno declaring that
himself TO the effect that there is no
hope OF stepping the butchery of Jews
at BlSlystOk for two or three days. He
is quoted as saying that mobs are in
Vading the trains passing through BIZ
alystok and are dragging out and kill
ing passengers. The Jews who es-
capped from Bialystok are wandering,
starving, in the fields or woods
The gravity Of the general situation
grows hourly. The Bourses of St Pc
tersbUrg and MOSCOW are in Z panicky
condition, and the Social Democrats and
Social Revolutionists, considering Par
lament 10 be q negligible quantity, are
pushing their campaign for an armed
rising with increased vigor. Demon
strations are daily occurring in the
streets Of Moscow in favor OF a strike
with which the proletariat leaders are
trying TO precipitate q conflict The
agitation among the workmen here has
reached a boiling point, and patrols are
again in heavy force in the Industrial
quarters. In the country the rural
guards are throwing in their lot with
the peasants, refusing to protect the
landlords
CZAR TO PBECIPTTATE WAR.
The Associated Press is reliably in
formed that Emperor Nicholas has def
initely decided 10 declare a recess Of
Parliament on June 2S.- and that his
Majesty and the royal family viii I'm
naediately thereafter leave on a cruise
of the Finnish fjords on board the i'm
perial yacht Standard, which is being
fitted out for that purpose If this de-
cisiOn be executed il is almost certain
10 be the signal for an immediate and
bloody struggle.
The group Of toll, as an outcome OF
its open declaration against a recess,
passed a resolution declaring that nell
ther now nor in the near future can
Parliament be recessed: that the mem
bers will not leave their posts, and that
so long as the arbitrariness and out
RACES Of the Government continue and
the terrors OF impending outbreaks and
the sunerings Of the peasantry and
workmen reign. Parliament must con-
tfnue until IL has achieved - land OF
freedom" or exhausted ali means TO
this end.
The Conservative Liberal newspaper
Strana prints a story that Emperor
william has promised his support TO
Emperor Nicholas IL the Russian ruler
adopts a firm policy But this policy is
clearly traceable 70 sources hostile TO
Germany and which have tried to make
81 appear that William is the evil ge-
MUS Of Nicholas
GOVERNMENT IS FRIGHTENED.
The progress Of the revolutionary
propa ganda in the army is seriously
Alarming the Government. and TO add
TO the popular excitement comes the
massacre Of Jews at Bialystok- While
the reports conflict as to the imme-
date responsibility for the outbreak,
the authorities here cannot escape re-
onsfbility for the provocative Black
Hundred telegrams which they caused
20 be printed throughout Russia, ap-
pealing to the worst FASHIONS Of the
mob against the Jews as the enemies
OF the country.
The Government is undoubtedly
frightened at what has occurred. Mar
fiai law has been declared at Bialystok.
and troops are being rushed to the
scene, but, according to the latest re-
ports, the hunting down of unfortunate
Jews continued unabated yesterday af-
ternoon and last night, accompanied
by fndescribable horrors. The COM
mission dispatched to Bialystok by Par
lament can be relied upon to make a
pitiIess exposure to the country of any
derelfction OF the authorities.
The leaders in the lower house of
Parliament have been convinced that
II is the intention Of the Government
10 prevail upon the Emperor to order