The Jersey City news., 1906-07-23
J,zAR AND PEOPLE
FACE TO FACE
Douma's Dismissal Leaves
Nicholas Sole Ruler.
TROOPS FILL THE CAPITAL
Loyalty Of Soldiers Immediate
Issue Of Conflict.
PARLIAMENT MEMBERS in FINLAND
TROOPS FILL THE CAPITAL
PARLIAMENT MEMBERS IN FINLAND

Two Hundred Members of outIawed
Body Gather In Vibore and Discuss
Issue of Manifesto to People-Will
Appeal For Quiet Measures and
Avoidance of Bloodshed = Emperor
Relieves Premier GoremyI<in and APP
points interior Minister Stolypin In
His Stead = Powers Approximately
Those of Martial Law Placed In the
Hands of Rulers of ST. Petersburg.
Public and Private Meetings For
hidden and Newspapers Suspended.
st. Petersburg, July 23.-With the
imperial ukase dissolving parliament,
which has been promulgated, the cur
tain rose upon possibly the last act in
the great drama Of the Russian revo-
luton. The people and the govern
ment now stand face to face and upon
the loyalty of the army depends the
immediate issue.
Even should the government, howev-
er, succeed in getting on the lid, the
victory probably will only be tenn
porary and simply confine the steam
for the final explosion No one doubts
the severity of the storm which will
arise in the country in response to the
emperor's dispersal of the men whom
hn ,n6 ~,
Winter palace as the best men in
Russia" But the die is cast. The
government has elected to fight, and
the capital bears eloquent testimony
of the preparations made to repress
the masses by force. The city is pack
ed with soldiers and resembles an arm
ed camp.
Troops Fill Capital.
Troops were brought in and disposed
of according to plans previously adopt
ed. The re-enforcements include four
infantry regiments of the Chevalier
guard, hussars, mounted grenadiers
and a battery of machine guns The
troops occupy railroad stations and
the bridges across the rivers and ca
nails, and the patrols of both police and
gendarmes are everywhere doubled
An imperial ukase relieves Mr.. Go
remykin of the premiership and ap-
points as premier Mr. Stolypin, who
also retains his present post of min
lister of the interior. Minister of Agri-
culture Stichinsky has resigned
The imperial ukase dissolving parlia-
ment says that a new assembly shall
be elected to meet on March of next
year.
Hundreds sof Arrests.
The work of gathering in revolutions
ary agitators began Immediately after
the ukase placing st. Petersburg in "a
state of extraordinary security" was
promulgated, and hundreds of arrests
were made.
The powers conferred upon NJ. Won
der Launitz, prefect of police, and Nj.
Zinovieff, governor of the province, are
little short of those of petty dictators.
Searches and arrests can be made
without process of law, newspapers
are forced to suspend publication and
persons deported by administrative or
der without trial Public and private
meetings are forbidden Those arrest
ed may, If it Is desired, be tried by
military courts and summarily execut-
tween extraordinary. security" and
full martial law
The Social Democrats and the Group
Of Toll in the douma have all along
recognized that when 1t came to con-
flict the burden must be borne by them
in the beginning, and the most elab-
crate preparations have been made to
repeat the tactics of last fall and para
lyze the country with Il general strike.
But the plans at this time have been
perfected with much more deliberation
and involve not only the paralysis of
cities, telegraphs, railroads and all
means of communication throughout
the empire, but complete strike of
peasants throughout the country.
They confidently believe the loyalty
of the troops has been so shaken that
the military supports Of the govern
ment will give way and that when put
to the test the army will be divided
against itself
Expect Peasants to Rise.
Although the news of the dissolution
of the douma spread like wildfire
among the members of the various po-
litical organizations, the masses here
generally are hardly awake. to the mo-
mentous event. The news travelled
fast in the country, and the general ex-
pectation is that the peasantry, accept
ing the dispersal of the douma as the
final blow to their hopes, win rise en-
masse.
The workingnen's organizations have
been preparing for months for just
such provocation to declare open war.
While M, Stolypin, who succeeds NJ.
Gorenykin as premier, undoubtedly is
much stronger man than his prede-