Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
SIBERIA SCENE
OF FIERCE RIOTS
REPORTS NOW SAY THAT THE
WORST IS OVER
On Opening Of TeIegraphic commun-
cation Government Learns of
Seriousness Of Irkutsk
Revolution
BY Associated Press.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 10, 1875 a.
m.-The first advices received by the
government from Siberia of the res
toration of telegraphc communication
show that the most critical conditions
prevailed there during the recent strike,
but that now, with the arrival of re-
liable troops from Manchuria, the worst
is over. owing to the interruption of
communication the local governors
were not aware that authority to de-
clare martial law had been conferred
on them by the emperor's ukase. The
paltry military forces at their disposal
were in open sympathy with the strik
ers and many of them were revolu-
tionists, thus preventing energetic
measures being taken to restore the i'm
rerial authority, which was practically
non-eXistent for many days.
Divisions under Gen. Sukhotin have
now arrived and taken possession of
| irkutSk, OmSk, KrasnoyarSk and other
towns and are arresting the leaders of
the insurgents and disarming the un-
reliable troops.
The first telegram arriving from
lrkutsk was a frantic appeal from the
| financial agent there for some one to
take over the administration of the
city.
The vice governor the chief of po-
lice and all his other superior officers
have been killed or wounded during
the insurrection. He reported that for
several days the revolutionists were in
control of the entire town except the
administration building and that this
n1 1Nr .
of the cadets of the military school who
swore on the colors to fight to the
death against the revolutionists.
hrasnoyarsk was also for several
days in the hands of the insurgents,
who elected a revolutionary govern
ment and eXaCted an oath of allegiance
from all citizens.
Observation of Red Sunday
The workmens council, after consult
alton with the leaders of the other
proletariat organizations, today decided
that the celebration of the anniversary
of January % (Red Sunday should
take the form of general pacific strike
for single day. Delegates were ap-
pointed to go to France, Germany and
England as well as other places abroad
for the purpose of thanking the work.
ers of those countries who propose to
join in general observance of the
anniversary
A three-cornered discussion is in
progress between Gen. Martynoff, the
MolVa CRuss) and the Novoe Vremya
over the question of personal bravery
of the Jews. The controversy was
precipitated by the publication of an
article signed by Gen. Martynoff in
which the Jewish soldiers We're stig-
matized as towards and in which it
was declared that they resorted to
every conceivable ruse, even to the
extent of mutilating themselves, in
order to avoid service. The article SAID
that those who actually reached Man
churia feigned sickness before every
fight, and that the fright of the Jews
in battle was enough to shake the
morale of an entire regiment.
The Jews, the article said, were also
guilty of constant desertion. and it was
alleged that there were 256 desertions
of Jewish soldiers from a single di-
vision, as compared with the desertion
of eight Christians. In concluding his
article Gen. Martynoff said that the
Jew, on account of cowardice and ply
sical weakness, was not fit to be a
soldier.
Takes Side of Jews
The Molva took up the cudgels on
behalf of the Jews warmly defending
their moral courage and giving them
credit Tor bearing the brunt of the
revolutionary struggle and explaining
that any faults they may have shown
at the front were born of their de-
testation of the rule of their oppres-
sorS.
The Novoe Vremya sided with Gen.
Martynoff but acknowledged the abii-
ties of the Jews, who, it said, We're the
real organizers of the Russian revo-
luton. 1t insisted, however, that while
the Jews had furnished brains and
arms to the workmen, just as they fur
mshed bombs to the terrorsts they
had done little actual fighting
In continuing it's side of the argu-
ment, the Novoe Vremya berates those
foreigners in the United States and
elsewhere, who raise money to buy
weapons for the defense of the poor
Russian Jews, which i'm reality are
used to fight the government Then the
foreigners blame the government for
the harsh measures adopted to ouell