The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-24

ted persons to prison. During the night over 1000 arrests of workmen, agitators and revolutionary suspects were made. The railroads leading out of the city have been placed under martial law and the gendarmes search the passengers and baggage on all trains for arms and political docu- ments.
 Not only the Tauride palace, but the gates of the park leading to 1t, are closed and the surrounding streets are alive with gendarmes and secret po- lice. In the court yard of a neign- boring harraek of one of the guard regiments, the correspondent saw two 1 companies drawn up in marching or der and shortly afterwards he met a travei-stained detachment of gray cuirressiers gallopinR from Krasnoye- Eelo camp.
 With the regular garrison. there are now more than 6o.000 troops mnssed In the city. including forty batalions of infantry, practically the entire cav- airy of the guard, division of in- fantry of the guard, field battery, four other batteries and four com panies of machine guns
 Upon all the dead walls are posted proclamations of the prefect Of police ordering all proprietors of houses. porters and door guardians to obey ana aid the police in case of disorders. prohibiting meetings, public or pri- vate. without permission: prohibiting the collection of money for illegal purposes. the distribution of procla- nations, ths raising of flags and sing ing in the streets
 The hall of the economic society as well as other halls where assem- blages have been frequent are closed and under guard. A meeting of en- gineers was broken up at two o'clock this morning and score of persons were arrested.
 Newspapers Carefully Watched.
 The prefect of police placed police officers in the newspaper offices last night to see that they did not trans- gress the limits of the law under threat confiscation of their Issues This accounts for the comparative nfldnes of the press comments this morning. Even so the edition of The Rech was seized soon after 1t had left the press
 The Rech terms the dissolution of parliament incredible in view of the events of the past year and says:
 Tt is true that new parliament has been summoned. but in the present temper of the population 1t is mean ingly less. With the hopes falls the prestige of the peoples popular rep- resentationa. If the best men in the
  could not restore tranquility. what chance has the discredited ministry to prevent an elementary explosion. The old methods of repression can only re- suit in untold terror. We profountly regret what must follow, but the con science of parliament which tried to avoid conflict is clear. The blood of the martyrs will not be upon It's shoul- ders. Parliament has not sat in vain. It has strengthened the cause of Iibcr- ty and proved to Europe that Russians are not barbarians, but are fitted for self government"
 Parliament Was Sincere.
 The Novoe Vremya, while expressing no regret at the dissolution of parlia- ment, says that whatever mistakes par liament made, 1t was honest and sim cere, adding:
 God grant that the next will be worthy in these respects and that the country will live through the coming ordeal"
 The Novoe vremya also says that the population has learned to look to Par llament as the protector of its aspira- tions for liberty and justice and accepts the imperial manifesto as an assurance that the principle of popular repre- sentation has not been abandoned,
 Among the persons arrested are number of terrortsts on whom were
 
 victims as in case of General Koslov's assassin.
 The country's interior shows that the fermentation in the cities has already begun. There is a renewal of the strikes in Poland and in the south, but no rioting on a big scale with the ex- ception of at Kahrkon Is reported.
 From every direction come reports that an era of repression has been inaugurated including the coniiscation of radical newspapers and wholesale arrests of political and revolutionary suspects and there is every indication that most serious outbreaks will oc- cur In the cities of Southern Russia and that a rising of the peasants will begin in the Volga region and the fa- mine stricken provinces The signal for a general strike, however, has not yet been given.
 RIOtlng nt KharkOM.