THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 274, 16 November 1905, Page 4

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.

The outbreak ol anarchy at Vladivostok throws light on two important features of the Russian revolttticiiaiy rising. Now that rebellion has broken out in the extreme Eastern limits of *he Czar's dominions, it is pladn that the length end breadth of his great empire must be undermined by sedition. The revolution is not confined to European Russia, nor are the resources oi its eaders limited to the borne territories of the Czar. But there is an even mat* noteworthy aspect of this Vladivostok mutiny to be considered. Here, as at Kronstadt and Sevastopol, the revolutionaries have been joined by sailors and soldiers. lake the Back Sea flee! and the Baltic squadrons, the remnant of Baissia's Pacific fleet is permeated with revolutionary teachings; and it is easy to understand -why the Imperial Council has refused to bring back the Manehurian .armies to aid in crushing the rebels in Europe, The revolutionary eaders have always boasted of their influence over the army and the naw; and if the soldiers and sailors stationed at Vladivostok are a fair sample of the forces to which, they belong, toe €zar will do well to keep them far beyond the Urals. All that the revolutionaries need now is armed strength to assist them; and when they w»< anee meet force with force the doom of the fioumanolTs will be -quickly sealed. So far, indeed, there seems to have been but little. direct assistance afforded to the revolutionary movement by the Russian army or fleet in the mass. The Kniaz Pptemkine incident in the Black Sea and the outbreaks at Revel, libau, and A_ronstaat may have been occasioned by personal grievances or local conditions not necessarily connected "with the propaganda of the reformers. But whaterer the leaders of the revolt against the Autocracy may hope or expect from the army or the navy, they appear to '> be trying every possible expedient that can supply their lack of actual fighting power. The Council of Workmen's Unions has at last carried out its threat of proclaiming a general strike throughout Russia; and we have now to see how tie Autocracy will fare when it has to face the pa save resistance of the millions of Eussia'g patient and resolute toilers. If the WorVmen's Council, which is, in fact, a revolutionary organisation, can carry out its purpose effectively, the industrial and '•ommercial life of Russia will come at once to a standstTL The Emnire will be paralysed, nnd the Czar may find these peaceful methods of argument even more convincing thnn the bombs and daffsers of the NThTist. But even the Czsrr must understand by this time that he has lost, beyond hooe of Tecoverv. the confidence and sympathy of his subjects. The monstrous outra?es committea upon the Jews, the slaughter of hrooeent and helpless -women and children, and the eunninw evnaons "by wlrch ttit Lntopracy has striven to avoid carrvin? out its promised reforms, hive combined to exasperate the people of Eus=ia beyond ccmtrol; and any moment we may hear that the flu-mec of revolution Warm? so fercplv in VladivoetoV to-day have brok"tj forth in unqueTiehnbV fury at the Peterbof or the Winter Palace or the Kremlin.