The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-27
STRIKE STILL
 HANGS FIRE No Word from Revolu-
 tion's Leaders. FEAR FAMINE CONDITIONS
Cutting of of Railroads Wodld
 Injure Peasants.
Radicals Have Burned Many Bridges And Hope Thus To Force the sssu~---PoIice Are More
 Active.

st.Petersbure. July 2s-The decision on the question of general strike Is still hanging fire. No word has been received from the revolutionary lead CTS who again are in secret session to- night
 In addition to other reasons. the eon-
 dition in. famine districts is announced as new argument against strike as the peasantry would resent the tieing up of the railroads, on which they are dependent for grain to keep them from starvation
 The ministry of railroads received word today of several attempts to de- stroy railroad bridges. and 1t is be- iieved that the Radicals are resorting to this means to force ths Issue. The police are becoming more active in breaking up the meetings in the capital. Today they invaded confer ence of St. Petersburg Aldermen, which was held In a private house and all
 If those In attendance were arrested for five hours while the house was
 searched and papers examined. News has been received that radical troubles have broken out at Krasnoy- ayrsk between Russians and natives of , siberia. One person was killed and six
 were wounded in the first encounter The government is using every means at it's disposal to create the impression both at home and abroad that the crisis has been successfully passed and that the probability of a general upheaval l has disappeared
 The semi- -official press Is filled with comforting assurances that the gov I ernment now has firm hold on the
 situation and that the confusion and l Generalization in the counsels of the | axsf sfnok 1 dueed by the coup d'etat render united action impossible. Moreover the off, | ciai reports seek 10 create the impress sion that there has been little response | among the masses to ths plan for a
 general strike as . preliminary to a
 universal uprlsing.
 The application of the old methods,
 the government confidently asserts, has
 already landed the most dangerous of | the leaders behind the bars and much stress Is laid on the importance of the l capture. number of revolutionary ring leaders at Moscow which 1t turns | out was the result of information ob- taIned at the time of the capture of the l offices of The Afisia here.
 Among the papers then seized, the | government claims. were the complete plans of a revolutionary military or 1 ganization. which enabled the authori- | ties 10 close the revolutionary chan ncls Into the army,
 Government Needs Money. The government ssudden excess of l optimism, however. is in reality trace i ai,ie t. the consternation over the dis- asirous fall in Russian securities at | home and abroad. The one thing which | the government cannot do without is morey, and whatever the response to | the optlawed parliament's appeal to | tho people to refuse to any longer pay | Aa- .-fZ R..k 1n@A A0 AvS he ability of the government to continue | it's foreign loan operations in the fu- | ture
 The second fnstallment of the big
 loan negotiated prior to the assembling of parliament is due August 1 and the ] outlook in Russia has frightened the 1 holders into refusing to pay in any further cash. The situation has evi- dently caused quite as much alarm among the fnanciers who underwrote | the loan abroad as 1t has at the treas ury here Finance Minister Kokovsom l has been bombarded by telegrams from
 French, English and German brokers, urging on him the necessity or sup porting the market
 This accounts for the activity Of the government bankers in bidding up 1 nrices on the bourse here and at Mos | COW yesterday as well as for the rosy | view of the future sent abroad by the l Oficial Telegraph agency last night l under M. Kokovsoff's inspiration. As a matter of fact the government can I lfardly be blind to the evidence under l lts nose that 1t Is living over vol I cano and that the danger of an erup- ton is far from ended.
 start Counter Coup. | For the last forty-eight hours the central committee of the social demo- l league. railroad mems union. and l telearaphers union and the military l committees have been comforting both l separately and jointly with the parlia- | nentary groups not only on the | question of calling a general strike, | hut actually on the question of Gt- | tempting counter coup d etat by | setting up a provisional government No final decision has yet been taken | hut practically all the proletariat l organization. including that of the l railroad men, but excepting the tele- | rraphers, have already pronounced in i favor of this step The members of | the group of toll and social demo- l crats of outlawed parliament believe | that another course is open and are | irrevocably committed on the surface l with the constitutional democrats to l discountenancing any active revolu- tionary step. but secretly they have agreed to support or join in 1t if 1t can be successfully inaugurated over
 a hundred of them met last night in Finland under the presidency of Pro lessor MilIukoff.
 Conferences will be held by repre- sentatives of other groups this after moon and the possible extent of the l support which a revolutionary move
 nnent will receive from the army which is therefore vital At Helsingfors. Finland. Tuesday night 1.500 soldiers and steamers sailors of the gar rison took an oath to fight on the side of the people.
 I, Is quite apparent to disinterested observers of the situation that tho Government in entering in its present policy made a perhaps fatal biunder in lacking the hardihood to arrest the
 members of the outlawed Parliament Tn its desire to save It's face" 1t fear ed to Eo further than prohibiting the
 nublIcation of the address of Parlla-
 ment to the country and preventing
 inc members from giving public ae- counts of their actions to thelr con
 stituents.
 Rut this only left the members of
 Parliament personally free to conduct ] a conspiracy against the life of the