Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-03
TOday's Telegraphic News
Conditions inRussia.

Conditions in Russia
st. Petersburg, Jan. S.-The cores
pendent of the Publishers Press at Mos
COW in a telephone communication sent
this morning said: although many
revolutionists have been arrested and
the officials are proclaiming that they
have many OF the leaders in custody, 10
order to create the impression that this
is the fact. know Ofmy personal knowl-
edge that only one important revolution
ist was captured. The Others all es-
capped and are now preparing new plans
for keeping up the revolution.
Other advices from Moscow state that
corpses are Uttered along the Kazan Rail
way, over 300 persons having been SHIT
by the soldiers A court martial tribunal
composed Of officers decreed the execn-
ton of one hundred strikere after hear
ing of two minutes.
Many indescribable atrocities are
charged against the troops. The gov
eminent just at present is directing its
principal attention to the Caucasus and
eastern Russia, where the rebels admit
tedIy have gained the upper hand.
Premier Witte is confident that ne
will succeed in pscifying the empire
1t is asserted on good authority that
White personally ordered the massacre
at Moscow in order to clear the atmos-
phere and test the loyalty OF the troops,
while demonstrating to the public the
determination Of the government to put
down the revolution. The hospitals at
Moscow, it is reported, contain 1000
wounded per.ons and $40 dead have been
buried 10 the last few days. Engineers
declare that the railway losses because
of the last strike. at Moscow will reach
the figures of so, 900, 900 roubles.
London, Jan. S-The correspondent Of
the Times at Warsaw wires cOnfrma-
ton of the report that the strike in Pol
and is Z fasco, owing mainly to the pre-
cautions taken by the authorities. IN
stances of violence on the part of the
troops have been remarkably few. The
suppression of the nationalist newspaper,
the Goniec, is calculated 10 excite the
Poles, however. The paper has since
appeared under a new name
Glasgow, Scotland, Jan. S.-The cor
respondent of the Herald at Moscow
wires that the tOtpl number of victims
during the revolt there is $4,000. The
majority of the casualties were among
peaceful citizens The revOlutionists
who still remain in arms are to be
starved into submission. The city is
very quiet.
St. Petersburg, Jan. S.--The Minis
ter of War has issued circular in
which he fOrbids officers in the Russian
army to become members of any poiiti-
cal union. Officers disobeying this rule
are threatened with severe punishment.
Berlin, Jan. "a dispatch received
here from St. Petersburg says that Pro-
lessor Megulin, well known financial
expert, offers the following estimate of
the losses suffered by Russia as the
result Of the revolution. Direct losses;
Conhagration at Baku, $50, 900, 900;
500 castles, and residences of land own
ers burned, SS5, 900, 900; damages to the
port at Odessa, $25, 600, 900; factories
destroyed, 500, 600, 600; damage wrought
in sixty plundered towns, $50, 900, 900;
damage to naval and military arma-
menis, s25, 900, 600; total direct losses,
5000, 900 Indirect losses, dimin-
ished railway returns, $40, 900, 900; loss
in wages on account of the strikes,
800, 900, 900; Russian capital trans
ferred TO foreign countries, 100000
900. Bankruptcies resulting from the
revolution, $50, 600, 900; withdrawal Of
foreign firms from business in Russian
business enterprises, $50, 900, 900; losses
to share holders in Russian business
enterprises, more than $500, 900, 600.
Total indirect losses approximately,
5000, 900, OCO; grand total, over ST.
600, 900, 900.
st. Petersburg, Jan. S.-The NOvoe
Vremya today publishes an extraOrdi-
nary statement which it attributes to
Admiral Rojestvensky, who commanded
the Russian fleet which was destroyed in
the battle of the Sea of Japan, in which
Rojestvensky says "At the battle of
Tsu-Shima, the British squadron at
Wei Hail. Wei had orders to attack the
Russian feet 10 the event of Japa-
nese defeat"