The Washington herald., 1906-10-20

Great PFeeIsiOn-COuntry Forced
Gar TO Grant Liberal Concession
Under Which Renewed Prepare
tions for Revolt Have been Made.
St Petersburg. Oct. - (yia the From
tier).-A crisis is impending IN the af-
fairs Of Finland, and upon the best Of
authority it can be stated that the Rev
dictionary party is now preparing to give
the werd to its members-and three out
Of every four Firms are members-to rise +
against the car and his ministers
Arms continue 70 pour into the coun
Try. They no longer consist in the main /
Of revolvers Of the Browning and similar
patterns, but include all manner OF
weapons from the cold steel knife and
bayonet 20 short rifle and portable rapid /
fire guns. 1t is open TO doubt whether
the Russian arseuals I'm Finland contain 1
anything like the assortment Of weapons /
hidden away in Finland's poplar copses
and pine forest by the Finnish revolu- /
tionary redoubtables.
It is OF nc use longer blinking at hard /
IS preparing in Finland. Exactly twelve |
months ago Finland's revolutionary /
preparation wrested from an alarmed (
car an instrument which stiIl later trans /
formed Finland into a semi-autonomous /
state. Finlanu's revolutionaries won +
where Russia's revolutionaries of the /
Moscow type courted fasco- Helsingfors /
counted on a united Finland before pre- /
senting its ultimatum to Nicholas at the /
end Of last year, and Finland won to an 1
extent apparently only family grasped /
abroad
Finland Was Prepared.
The Car and his advisers were point /
eddy Informed that the constitution prom 1
ised Russia last autumn was not the /
constitution Finland either required or /
would accept. At another time and /
under conditions other than those which +
held last autumn it would not be difficult /
TO forecast the tenor of naughty Rus /
sian Emperors rejoinder TO such demands /
from any state incorporated in his vast 4
dominions. But concurrent with the /
ultlmatum of FinIand's people 10 the cen
traT government came disconcerting rs /
surauces from the Cars then governor /
general ia Finland, Prince Obelyenski /
that Finland's people from UIeaborg 10
Lake Lad0ga. were ready and determined
In act as well as parley-
tn plain words. Finland was armed
She had, too, been arming on general. .
intensive. and only too well organized
lines. Like the japanese, the Flnlander. !
mt "a period of national crisis. is close
He prepares methodically. perfects his F.
organization. assures himself that no I.
stone has been left unturncd to assure 7.
success. and leaves his enemy to find out 4
too late for what and with what he IS 4
ready to negotiate
People Want still More.
After the people of Finland practically /
elhoWed all manner Of Russian officials
oul Of the country. or. like the Russian
frontier customs, allowed them 70 remain
for the nOnCc on sunerance, after an eff
ficient Red Guard and other military or
ganizations were fait accompH. the +
Car found it expedient .graciously'' to /
grant TO Finland the constitution nc /
had found expedient 10 deny To any and +
every other area I'm his doniuions.
finland's inhabitants We're given q wide I
measure of popular acknowledgements /
electoral competency exceeding that of not /
a lew foreign states already cnfranchised /
ior decades or generations What espe- /
l-1lly GIsc0nceTts the central government !
authorities in St. Petersburg. however Is /
that the appetite OF Finland for reform 1
has like Oliver Twists been but ternpor- /
arily aDDeased. Finland wants more and. /
from the point Of view of the home Office /
what is very much worse, Finland is
further ready to clinch for more
Weapon for Every Adult.
AT The present moment. at a modest .
computation. the stock of reviewers. long
barrels. long distance pistols. carbines. .
Berdans, and other rifles in Finland is OF 4
suficiency To arm effectively every male /
in Finland over twenty years Of age.
They have poured into Finland through .
the Bothuia Gulf, been stored in the PROV (
inee Of Uieaberg. under the very. nose of 4
Russian frontier and other officials. com
PEELED TO wink at these cargoes Of cased 4
weapons and ammunition. smuggled /
through from Hamburg or Swedish ports
The organization of the country ms
been So perfect that not ufTeQuentIy cased |
reviewers, rifles, and ammunition have
been got through To points as far distant
as Nlporg and Tcrc0ki from TIea borg
and signed for by the local Finnish guards
OF other national defense, within "a couple
of weeks of the landing Of tine gross con-
Segment away I'm the far North Bothuia
Il must be carefully borne i'm mind thar
the recent disarmament of the bulk of
capt kokhuIs former Red Guards of Fin
land did not In any way effect either the
actual military readiness of Fiulaud-s rev
oiuuonaries for later contingencies ar
the firm determination Of Finland'S re-
formers 10 demand, and IL possible obtain.
further Independence of Russian rule.
The Russian central authorities tEe,,7
selves are fully active ID the fdct that
Finland is again rapidly becoming dil-
6erous.
RevOIutionists Wen Under Cover.
a Finnish leader. asked how many trau.-
cd men he could muster in mid-Fin.and
in fortnight, is reported TO have an
severed that he had not he latest Fin
plsa census al his command In answer
10 further remark strange. though,
't'le or nothingsis to be seen anywhere
q armed groups he is reported to have
uryly rejoined further that good Firms.
thr good Dummies, knew when to keen
10 their burrows; they are not peacocks.
situtths publicly IN arms 70 show their
delight
Among military men here Il is now
Freely mooled that when the naxt wa-e
or leFoiutlon sweeps over the aIrpir2 it
Viii BIobably sweep over st. Petersburg
lJseH from The north and the. yi-f-it,-
Of Lake Ladoga- The torpedo-boat ao-
Una 70 stop contraband nut in that lake
some months ago, has proved useless i'm
preventing the landing of arms and am
n'unition such military men point fur