The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-28
Russian War Office Was Never
 So Busy As Now
CLOUDS ARE MORE OMNOUS
Machine Guns, Ammunition and troops Are Being Dispatched In Every Drection-Reactionis
 lntrigues Are Ceaseless.

St. Petersburg, March 27,-Despite tho governments assurance that another eX- tensive outbreak in the immediate future is impossible. the clouds are lowering and there are other indications that a big storm may break before parliament meets.
 The resentment against the tereble re- pressive measures of the government IS arousng the people, especially the work men in the cities. This is playing into the hands of the revolutionists who are planning a political strike and a great uprising They believe that the right moment will come in mid-April and both sides are preparing for the fray. If it comes. it is likely to be boodier and more terrible than anything previously witness ed in this country.
 The record of arrests last week in St. Petersburg besides an awful state of law Iessness in the capital, is eloquent testi- mony of the methods by which the gov ernment proposes to prevent the threaten ed explosion. According to the returns 659 beggars, 215. persons without pass ports. PIT thieves, 27O highwaymen and 106f unelassifed persons, which means political suspects were taken into GUS tody.
 War Office Never So Busy.
 At no time during the war was the war office buster than now, making dlsposi- tions to suppress the first evidences of rebellion Machine guns and ammunition are being dispatched in every direetion; troops are being shifted and concentrated; ; armored trains are being stationed at railroad centers and ironclad automobiles are being sent to the larger cities.
 Here and in Moscow the cossaeks and other cavalry are again patroling the streets night and day. A project for a wireless telegraph system to enable the government to communicate with the in- terior in the event of a strike of the telegraph operators is being hastily work ed out and soldiers are being instructed how to man trains and work the telegraph lines.
 The intrigues of the reactionists at court are ceasess. In fact the cabal seems actually to be fostering an outbreak in order to suppress it mercilessly and con- vince the Emperor that the people cannot De lIuSltu NllI DOlllNdl ilbtl titHs All illi portant secret conference between Gen eral Trepoff, commandant of the palace and a rlngleader of the cabal was held at Tserskoe- Selo on Saturday night and the Nasha Shisn says that privy council Tor Kokovsoff, former minister of finance. is going to Paris and that if he succeeds in negotiating a loan he will supplant Count Witte as premier
 It is believed that threatened mas af Ia.. sat I< on nt1 ar n places in Bessarabia and Podoia, for which the anti-Semitc campaign of the court cabal Is directly responsible will be prevented.
 Railroad Men Are Cautious.
 The central bureau of the Pan-R Russian railroad employees fearing that the rail- road men lncensed by the dismissal of so large a number of their comrades will prematurely inaugurate partial strikes, has issued circular warning the men that 1t would not be wise to take nasty action. which Is sure to fail. and in- structng them to prepare for q struggle and await the decision of the railroad congress which is to be held next month, The elections which everywhere are in full blast are contributing to the politi- cal excitement. 1t is significant that the results of the second degree of the mu- nieipal elections in the cities and towns which have no separate representation in parliament have been favorable to the constitutional democrats and progress ives.
 Out of 42 municipal elections, the con stitutlonal democrats who are now sometimes designated the party of the peoples llberties' elected 30 representa- tives. which proves the advanced stage of the political development of the cities. It is by no means clear, however, that they can overcome the conservative dele gates of the peasants and landowners in the provincial congresses.
 Among the prominent men who have thus far run the gauntlet are Prince Dolgoroukoff. constitutional democrat at Kursk, and Michael Stakovich. October st, at Orel. The noted reactonary M. Pavloff. co-editor of the Gringmuth. has been elected by the landowners of Sara toff.
 Municipal elections In the towns of this province, except St. Petersburg, will oc- cur tomorrow. Prof. Milukon and M. Hessen, constitutional democrats, are the most prominent candidates.
 The government regards the Baltic provinces as being sufficiently paclfed to fix the dates for the provincial con gresses which will be held in Esthonia April 21 and in Courtland and Liyonia