Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
SAY MASSACRES
WERE PLANNED
RUSSIAN HORRORS KNOWN TO
BE PREARRANGED
All Doubt OF Existence Of Organized
Military Revolutionary League
Now Removed-Martla Law
at Odessa
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG. July 3.-All
doubt of the existence Of an organized
military revolutionary league, which is
inspiring mutinies and uprisings In the
army has been set at rest by the dis
covery of the seal and documents of the
league during the search of soldiers at
tached to staff headquarters at villa
and detailed to various regiments of the
third corps.
Minister Rudiger has ordered strict
investigation to be made of all detach-
ment of troops in order to determine the
extent of the revolutionary propaganda
and the best methods of counterac citing
It.
Martial Law Proclaimed
Martial law was proclaimed today at
Odessa owing to the ferment among the
troops. The administrative and parlia-
mentary views of the Bialystok excesses
were published tonight, the first in the
report of Baron Frisch, president of the
council of the empire. to Minister of the
Interiar Stolypin, published in the Off
cal messenger and the latter report of
the parliamentary commission.
Although they differ in many impor-
tant respects they unite in holding GER
tain officers or at least the inferior po-
lice officers guilty of melting and par
ticipating in the excesses. 1t is signifi-
cant that Shiremsteff. prefect of police
of Bailystok, has been summoned to ST.
Petersburg.
There is a slight discrepancy in the
statements of casualties According to
the report of Baron Frisch 81 were
killed, of whom 70 were Jews. and rs
wounded, of whom so were Jews, while
the property loss is placed at 100000.
The parliamentary commissions report
gives 50 Jews and six Christians killed
and approximately the same number of
wounded.
Report Gives Details
The commissions report will be dis
cussed Thursday 1t gives the details In
practically every case of killing and in
those instances it cites the names of
soldiers and policemen who murdered
one or more Jews as absolute proof of
the participation of the military and
police. 1t declares the Pogrom and pre-
liminary events show evidence of gen.
eral, deliberate plan.
The report urges in conclusion an In
terpellation of the minister of the inter-
ior, as to what measures have been
taken to bring the guilty ones to justice,
especially the police officials and the
governor of Grodno, who left Bialystok
before order was restored, and interpret
lation of War Minister Rudiger as to
the participation of the soldiers in the
excesses, the placing of detachments of
troops under the command of petty Off
GERS and the suppression of the local
authority by the military before the pro-
clamatiOn of martial law.
Baron Frisch's report takes the view
that revolutionary activity and terror
ism are responsible for the anti-Jewish
feeling and alleges that the reactionary
police were left a free hand after their
brothers had been slain by the revolu-
tionists.
Serious Mutiny Breaks Out
The minister of war has received
telegrams to the effect that a serious
mutiny has broken out in the second
and third battalions of the Tiralleurs,
and the first railway battalion at Aska-
bad.
1t originated in the now familiar way
of the arrest of the soldiers and their
comrades demanding their release and
the formulation of a list of grievances,
including a demand for removal of Off
GERS and their replacement by men from
the ranks.
The mutineers set the governor gem
real at defiance. Reinforcements of in
fantry. Cossacks and artillery have
been dispatched to Askab from Merv.
Agrarian disorders continue in the
central and southern provinces. A des-
perate encounter took place between the
police and a crowd at public garden in
Tulla and many women and children
were among the victims. At Matvieka
there was a regular engagement be-
tween Cossacks and peasants in which
several persons were killed or wounded.