Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-07-04
TWO REPORTS
ON OUTRAGES
At B|ALSTOK
Soldiers and Police Blamed
for Massacre.
MUTlNY AND DISORDER
RIFE IN IMPERIAL ARMY
Agrarian Outbreaks Continue in Rus
sia and CossaCk and Peasants
Fight Pitched Battle.

st. Petersburg, July 3.-All doEbt
of the existence of an organized mn
Jary revolutionary league whl9h is
Inspiring the mutinies and u9risings
in the army has been set at rest by
the discovery of the seal and docu-
ments of the league during the search
of soldiers attached to staff head
quarters at Wilma and detailed to the
various regiments of the third corps
War minister Rudiger has ordered a
strict investigation to be made OF all
disorders among the troops, in order
To determine the extent of the revo-
utionary propaganda and the pes'
methods of counteracting it.
Martial law was proclaimed today
at Odessa on account of the fermen'
among the troops there.
The administrative and parliament
tary views OF the Bialystok excesses
We're published tonight, the first re-
port of Baron Frisch, president of the
council of the empire. to Minister OF
the Interior Stolypin, published III
the Official Messenger, and the latter
in the report of the parliamentary
commission. Though they differ III
many respects they unite in holding
ferior police officials, guilty of incit-
ing and participating in the excesses
1t is significant that Colonel Shirems'
tieff, prefect of police of Blalystok
has been summoned to st. Petersburg
There is a slight discrepancy III
the statement of casualties. accord
ing to the report of Baron Frisch, 8.
were killed, of whom rs were Jews
and rs wounded, of whom SO Were
Jews. while the property loss Is
placed at 100000. The parliament
tary commission reports 80 Jews an6
six Christians killed and approximate
ly the same number wounded.
The commissions report VIII be
discussed Thursday. 1t gives details
in practically every case Of killing
and in eight instances it cites tht
names of the soldiers or policemen
who murdered one or more Jews a.
absolute proof of the participation o.
the military and police.
1t declares that the program ant
preliminary events show evidence o.
a general, deliberate plan.
The report urges in conclusion the
Interpolation of Minister of the In
terror Stolypin as to what measure:
have been taken to bring the guilty
ones to Justice and especially the po
lice officials and governor of Grod
no, who left Bialystok before ordel
was restored, and also an interpella
ton of War Minister Rudiger, as Il
the participation of soldiers in th'
excesses, the placing of detachment
of troops under command of petty po
lice officials and the suppression o
the local authorities by the military
before the proclamation of MARTA
law.
Baron Frisch's report takes thu
view that revolutionary activity ant
terrorism are responsible for the anti
Jewish feeling and alleges that thu
reactionary police were left FREE
hand after their brothers had beei
slain by the revolutionists.
The minister of war has received
kilograms to the effect that a seriou
mutlny has broken out in the Secon'
and Third battalions of Tirallers ant
the first railway battalion at Askabad
IT originated in the now familiar wa.
of the arrest of the soldiers and thei
comrades demanding their release an
the formulation of a list of replace
ment by men from the ranks.
The mutineers set the governo
general at defiance. Reinforcement,
of infantry, Cossacks and artiller
have been dispatched to Askabad from
Merv.
Agrarian disorders continue in tn
central and southern provinces.
desperate encounter took place be
tween the police and a crowd at
public garden In Tulla, and man
women and children were among tn
victims. At Matviefka there was
regular engagement between Cos
sacks and peasants. in which severa
rarsnna wera killed or wounded.