Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-02
POLICY. OF REPRESSION CONTINUE
Government Spies Are at Work Among {
Labor Organizations
ST. PETERSBURG PRISONS ARE CROWDED
Many Leaders of Revelation Succeed
In Evadink Arrest and Meet
fngs Are Held
Daily.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. lit is learned !
from a high source that Premier Witte is
again strongly urging the emperor to Inn |
nnediately promulgate moderate constitu- |
tion for the double purpose of reassuring
the liberals that the present war against /
the reds does not mean reaction and DOCK |
ing the attempt which undoubtedly will be !
made when the national assembly convenes
to transform that body into constituent !
assembly. Moreover the plan has other |
heavy backing and the emperor Is showing
an inclination to accept It, The premier
is understood to have informed his majesty !
that such an act will be the master stroke
ut the present juncture and might rally
the whole body of conservative and liberal
opinion to the side OF the government.
REFRESHING the Reds.
The policy of repressing the revolution
lists continues with vengeance Their an
nouncement that they proposed to carry on
a guerilla warfare until a general armed
revolt Is prepared has stimulated the gov
eminent to redoubled energy.
A band of terrorists is known to be at
work here and last night there were whole
sale searches for suspects The city pris-
ons are so overcrowded that hundreds have
been removed to Schlusselburg fortress and
to the fortress OF St. Peter and st. Paul.
Government spies are at work among the
workmen and revolutionary societies with
instructions to give warning OF meetings
which are Immediately surrounded, the
members searched for arms and the ring
leaders taken into custody. Nevertheless
the Workmen's council and the executive
committee of the social revolutionsts are
managing to evade arrest and meeting
40 at dtfferant placp In the out
skirts of the city. The patrols are under
stood to have orders not spare bullets II
they are attacked by persons using bombs
or revolvers.
statement of Doubasson.
An interview with Governor General
Doubassoff is printed today, in which he ex-
plains that the duration OF the revolt is
owing to the extent of the region In which
the military forces are operating, and
i. owing TO the lack Of troops, which com
PEELED 'Doubasson TO await reinforcei1ents
from Warsaw and st. Petersburg before
giving the revolutionists their death blow
''Ihe most difficult task" the governor
general continued, was to drive them from
their base on the Kazan railroad, between
Moscow and Provo. three miles east of
Moscow, and surround them in the Presne
district so as to prevent their escape. Both
these tasks were successfully accomplished.
THE strikers of the Prokharoh mills,
which held the proprietor as a hostage,
were ready TO surrender Friday, but Colonel
MINI, who conducted the negotiations, de-
'clined to accept their surrender unless they
also delivered up the DruJinists' who had
sought refuge there"
Governor General Doubasson further de-
clared emphatically that the artillery bonn
barded only the houses from which the
revolutionists fired.
Reinforcements are entering Courland
from four sides, but the leaders OF the
Lettish revolution are imperturbable.
The papers publish terrible pictures Of
the conditions prevailing along the Siberian
railway There are no railway officials on
duty and on the section as far as Chelia-
binsk. government OF Orenburg, ALI the
stations have been pillaged. Complete an
srchy prevails at Irkutsk The military
trains are running without order or proper
engineers.
A gentleman who has just returned here
from Moscow accounts for the great exag-
geration in the reports OF the slaughter
there by the fact that troops and artil-
lery generally used blank cartridges for the
purpose of frightening the strikers and rev
olutionists.
He himself witnessed a battery Of
three guns 'bombard" d mouse from which
shots were fred but not a single shell or
shot was used. The gentleman from Mos
COW added that he understood that two
students. sons OF Prokharoff and Schmidt,
the owners of the factory destroyed, were
ringleaders In the organization of the Druid
jins.
Cavalry for Mitau and Riga.
MITAU, Courland. Russia. Jan, Flour
columns OF troops, principally cavalry and
artillery, are converging towards Mitau
and Riga.
The insurgents in the towns held by
them are instituting a social democratic
administration as II they were in perms-
nent possession. At Frankenberg a woman
of 20 and two girls sit I'm the new city
council
New Governor Marching on Riga.
RIGA Government OF Livonia, Russia,
Ian. 1.-Three policemen were killed during
the night.
The railroad men are again threatening
to strike in order to obtain the release OF
the arrested delegates.
General Count Sollogub, the new gov
ernor general OF the Baltic provinces, who
is marching on this city with a large
force OF troops. Is expected here Wednes-
day. II is reported that he will issue a
proclamation warning the population OF
the consequences OF the violation of mar
tisl law and threatening to try offenders
by court-martial and exile the entire pop
ulation OF communities which decline tC
yield.
In the Littish portions OF the Baltic
provinces the situation is quieter Ne
serious outbreak has occurred recently
Troops are pursuing revolutionary band,
from Dvalk and Dvinsk.
The revolutionary movement is spread
ing In northern Livonia, where estates ar,
being attacked.
The butchers strike continues here.
Bombs Captured In warsAw.
WARSAW. Jan. 1.-The police today dis
covered In a fiat on Kacza street. occupied
by Jews. several loaded ana unloadeS
bombs. quantity OF explosives and
number OF revoivers The police CLOSED
the street ana made a search OF all tn,
houses in H. Many arrests followed.