Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-23

Successor to NJ Goremykin as Premier of Russia
more than G0G0O troops massed in the city.
including fifty battalions of infantry. prac-
tically the entire cavalry. of the guard. a
division of infantry of the guard, field
battery. four other batteries and four COM
panies of machine guns.
Upon all the dead walls are posted proc
lamations of the prefect of police ordering
all proprietors of houses, porters and door
guards to obey and aid the police in case
of disorders. prohibiting meetings, public
or private. without permission; prohibiting
the collection of money for illegal purposes,
the distribution Of proclamations, the rais-
Ing of flags and singing on the streets.
The hall of the Economic Society and
other halls where assemblages have
been frequent, are closed and under guard.
A meeting of engineers was broken up at 2
o clock this morning and a score of prison
ers were arrested.
Newspaper Offices Policed.
The prefect of police placed police Of
ficers in the newspaper offices last night to
see that they did not transgress the limits
OF the law, under threat of confiscation OF
their issues This accounts for the COM
parative mildness of the press comments
this morning. Even SO, the edition OF the
Rech was seized soon after 1t left the press.
The Rech terms the dissolution of pariia-
ment incredible in view of the events of the
past year. and says:
been summoned, but In the present temper
of the population ii is meaningless. With
the shattering of the hopes of the people
falls the prestige of the principle of popu-
lar representation. If the best men in the
country as the emperor called them, could
not restore tranquility, what chance has
the discredted ministry to prevent an ele-
mentary explosion. The old methods of re-
preston can only result in untold horror.
We profoundly regret what must follow,
but the conscience of parliament which
tried to avoid conflict Is clear. The blood
of the martyrs will not be upon its should
ers. Parliament has not cat in vain. 1t
has strengthened the cause of liberty and
proved TO Europe that the Russians are
not barbarians, but are fitted for self gov
ernrnent"
TIE Novoe Vremya while expressing no
regret Mt the dissolution of parliament, says
that whatever mistakes parliament made 1t
was honest and sincere. adding:
"God grant that the next will be worthy
in these respects and that the country
Will live through the coming ordeal"
Was Done in Stolypin Selection.
The Novoe Vremya also says that the pop
ulatIon has learned to look to parliament as
the protector of it's aspirations for liberty
and justice. and accepts the imperial mani
festo as an assurance that the principle OF
| popular representation has not been aban-
doned Moreover the paper regards the Sc
| lection of NJ. Stolypin. a profound sympa-
| thizer with the regeneration of the country
as premier. as being additional proof OF
| this 1t regards NJ. Stolypin as a man OF de-
termination of character and undaunted
| courage, as shown by his willingness to as
| sumo the heavy task before him.
Among the persons arr,,sted are mum.
ber OF terrorists on whom were found pho
| tographs OF their intended victims, as In
case of Gen. Kozlovs assassin.
The news from the interior shows that the
| fermentation
| gun. There is renewal of the strikes In
| Poland and In the south, but no rioting or
a big scale with the exception of Khar-
| koff is reported.
From every direction come reports that ar
era of repression has been inaugurated, IN
| cluding the confiscation OF radical newspa.
| pers and wholesale arrests of political and
| revolutionary suspects. and there is every
| indication that most serious outbreaks will
occur I'm the cities of southern Russia, and
! that rising OF the peasants will begin In
| the Volga region and In the famine-stricker
central provinces. The signal for general
| strike. however. has not yet been given,