The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-20
ALL RUSSIA ABLAzE
Peasant Mobs In Many Central
Provinces Passing From the
Control of Troops.
DoUMA PLEADS FOR PEACE.

In Address to Country Parliament Ex-
horts People to Refrain From Ex-
cesses and V;olence-Governn1en Re-
ported Ready to Ask Foreign Aid.
Punishment For War Commanders.
st. Petersburg, July 20.-It is feared
that the real crisis is upon the govern
ment. Bulletin after bulletin comes
from central Russia showing that the
peasants are in actual revolution that
they are devastating estates, burning
towns and villages and looting the
homes of the nobility. Right in st.
Petersburg the douma seems to have
escaped the control of its own leaders,
and the officers of many regiments are
under suspicion.
The entire town of Syrian, province
of Simbirsk, is In flames, and the In
habitants are fleeing to Samara and
Saratov, which are reported to be un-
der mob control. SyZran has popula-
ton of $4,000 and is one of the com
mercial towns of rapid growth. A
peasant uprising in the province Of
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massacre of landlords In this prov
I ince the troops are powerless to cope
with the peasants, who are marching
in large bands, destroying practically
everything. Not more than one-tenth
of the estates are spared. The move
ment was started by the refusal of
the landlords in the northern part of
! the Bobrov district to agree to an
advance of wages to the farm women.
| The ripening crops are not being har-
vested.
| Troops Without Power.
| News from seven provinces shows
that the troops cannot stay the wrath
| of the peasants. The first places set
on fire were government buildings.
Soldiers have been sent south from
Moscow, but the territory they will
have to cover is so wide that it is
feared the uprisings cannot be sup
| pressed before a real revolution takes
shape
After a stormy session of twelve
| hours the house of representatives
adopted an address to the country
which supposedly explains the atti-
tude of the house toward the agrarian
question and the reason for its delay
1 in solving it. In reality the address
instead of being an appeal to the
! peasants against the government, as
| was originally intended, is pacific and
exhorts the peasants to refrain from
excesses and violence that the house
may gain their demands in a legal
manner.
Douma's End Near7
The Group of Toll members and
other radicals were more angered by
! the moderate tone of the address be-
cause the barracks near the Tauride
palace where the douma sits, were
filed with picked troops All during
! the long session it was common talk
in the lobbies that the douma will soon
be dissolved.
The official Rossia (newspaper) ere
| ated a tremendous sensation by an
nouncing that Germany and Austria
| have agreed-should the Russian gov
ernment ask ito send troops across
the border to suppress the peasant re-
bellion. The Rossia said the two pow
! eonfiscation of land by peasants.
| At the foreign ministry the spokes-
man Of Foreign Minister Iswolsky
laughed at the idea that Russia would
invite foreign troops to enter her ter
ritory and said emphatically that the
foreign ministry knows nothing of any
/ such purpose by Germany and Austria.
The report was denied from Vienna.
/ Punishment For Generals.
The commission appointed to investi-
gate the surrender of Port Arthur has
finished its labors and recommends that
Lieutenant General Stoessel the for
| mer commander of the Russian forces
at Port Arthur, be dismissed from the
army and shot; that Lieutenant General
Fock, who commanded the Fourth east
!, Siberian division at Port Arthur be dis
missed from the army and undergo
years hard labor; sthat General Reiss,
chief of staff of General Stoessel, be
dismissed and banished and that Adj
miral Alexeieff, former viceroy in the
/ far east; Lieutenant General Smirnoff,
commander of the Port Arthur fortress,
and General vernander be reprimand-
| ed
The formal trial of these officers viii
take place soon.
1t was decided to dismiss from serv-
| ice and send to Siberia the men in the
| infantry regiment who refeSSd to arrest
cavalry regiment at Lodz Tor refus-
/ ing to obey orders and also the men,
| bers of the latter.