The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-08-24
REIGN OF BLOOD IN OLD WARSAW
A Massacre Of Police and Other
Officials.

ST. Petersburg (By Cable). = Acting
apparently with definite plan and at
a signal, the terrorists and revolutionists
Wednesday inaugurated a carnivalof muir
derous attacks with bombs and revolvers
on the police and troops in various cities
in Poland, echoes of which are heard from
Samara, Ufa, Yalta, Kiev and even far
away Chita, where Acting Chief OF Po-
lice Gorpinchenko was slain almost on
his own doorstep. The revolutionist
campaign famed out with especial viru-
1ence at Warsaw, where over a score
were slain in the streets and many more
wounded. Among the killed, according
to the latest official advices, were two
sergeants of police, eight patrolmen,
three gendarmes, FIVE soldiers, Jewish
merchant and woman. The returns are
not all in.
Policemen and soldiers were shot
down like rabbits in the streets Their
assailants, who Travelled in small bands,
almost all escaped among the terrorized
but sympathetic populace. The only
considerable capture was a band OF 10
men who had invaded grogshop and
killed soldier. These were taken by a
passing patrol Troops fired into
crowd, killing IS and wounding $50 with
bullets and bayonets.
Bombs were employed in an attack on
the police station of the Nolsk precinct
in Warsaw, where a sergeant, two pa
trolmen and soldier were wounded.
Other Polish cities singled out by the
terrorists were LODI, where six soldiers,
three patrolmen and the wife of police
captain were wounded by the explosion
of bombs in the police station, and two
soldiers and two terrorists killed IN the
streets; Radon, where a bomb thrown
into the police station killed the wife
and child of a captain Vletslovsll, where
the chief of police was slain, and Flock,
where at a given signal the policemen
on all the posts were simultaneously at
tackled and several of them wounded.
On account of the agrarian disorders,
and especially several attacks on post
trains, the railway between Samara and
Zlatoust which already was carrying
guards on all its trains, was placed I'M
der martial law. Two of these attacks
occurred near Ufa, revolutionists in each
case tagging train, bursting open the
doors of the mail cars with bombs and
rihing the registered pouches The
booty in one case amounted to $4,000;
in the other case the amount Is not
known.
Fresh evidences of discomfort among
the troops are furnished by the soldiers
in Trans Caucasia, who are on the point
of rebelling. Late advices indicate that
the situation is serious. and it would
not be surprising if an open mutiny
broke out.
The garrison at Tihis is badly affect
ed and dispatches received say that the
discomfort is spreading. Even the Cos
sacks have rebelled to the point of re-
fusing to do police duty, and have made
threats against their officers. A number
of arrests have been made among the
soldiers.
The investigation into the attempt on
the life of Grand Duke Nicholas ON Au-
gust 10, at the Guards camp maneuyers,
at Krasnoye- has not only develop
ed that ball cartridges were used in 90
rifles of the sharpshooters, but that the
Krasnoye-Selo incident was preceded
earlier in the week by two sensational
occurrences directly due to disloyaliy
among the troops.