THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.

Evening Star, Issue 12843, 19 June 1906, Page 6

THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.

{ Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ! “ A CRUEI"mXsSAORE. j PROVOKED BY THE AUTHORITIES. | A SCANDAL TO CHRISTENDOM. LONDON, Juno 18. Unocnsored reports from special correspondents representing the Polish papers published in Austria state that the massacres at Biclostock wore arranged by the local "authorities. The number of victims is variously estimated at from 700 to 2,000. The Jews in many other towns are panicstricken, believing that the massacres at Bielostock is the beginning of an organised series of massacres. Four Jewish members of the Duma have appealed for foreign intervention in order to avert a terrible catastrophe. CRIMINAL NEGLECT. THE JEWS FLEE. ST. PETERSBURG, Jnne 18. Tbo ‘ Novoo Yremya’ admits that the massacres at Bielostock were intended as a punishment of the Jews for the murder of a popular police officer, although the Jews declare that they ore innocent. A fortnight ago the Jews appealed to tho Governor of Grodno to take precautions, but lie replied that nothing would happen. \ Though five infantry regiments, besides dragoons and many police, were in Bielostock, the authorities did not Intervene for two days, allowing an almost continuous butchery. Every shop and house in the seven principal streets was wrecked. Six thousand Jews have fled to the forests. Order is reported to have been restored. A WICKED LIE. THE JEWS FALSELY ACCUSED. ST. PETERSBURG, Juno 18. (Received June 19, at 8.33 am.) II is officially admitted, that tbo first telegram marked “ official,” stating that the Bielostock massacre was caused by bombs thrown by Jews, was a baseless fabrication of tho St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency, made in order to foment trouble. ANARCHY RAMPANT. PANIC ON THE BOURSES. THE DDMaTsUPPORTED. LONDON, June 18. The St. Petersburg correspondent of ‘ The Times’ reports that the political situation is nearly desperate. Tho authorities are powerless, and the troops mutinous, while anarchy prevails everywhere. Tho Duma is on the point of being extinguished. There has been a considerable fall in Russian bonds abroad. The Bourses at St. Petersburg and Moscow are in a state bordering on panic, and the brokers predict certain financial disaster unless the Government yield to the Duma. Tho Cossacks at Odessa refused to fire .on a meeting o? strikers, who cheered the soldiers, and then hoisted tho red flag, which the Cossacks insisted should be removed. The sailors at Kronstadt threaten not to tolerate any interference with tho Duma. (Received June 19 at 8.33 0.m.) Tho unrest amongst tho sailors at Kronstadt is increasing. The inhabitants are fleeing. Two regiments of Guards, twelve quick-firers, and twenty-two machine guns have arrived there from Krasnoe-Selo. A GENERAL STRIKE. ST. PETERSBURG, Juno 18. (Received Jnne 19, at 8.33 a.m.) There is a general strike at Archangel, and steamers are unable to load or discharge. A GLOOMY OUTLOOK. BERLIN, Juno 18. Depressing news is published in this city respecting tho Russian outlook. RUSSIAN ANARCHISTS ARRESTED. ZURICH, June 18. Sixty Russian students of both sexes, all said to be Anarchists, were arrested at a house in Zurich. Some revolutionary pamphlets and a liquid supposed to be used in the manufacture of an explosive were seized. [Bielostock is a town of 45,000 inhabitants in Russian Poland, in the government of Grodno. It has a gymnasium, a fine park, a palace, and many manufactures.] THE TRUE STATE OF RUSSIA. “A friend of mine,” writes a correspondent of a London daily, “who has visited Russia on business annually for over a dozen years, gave me a pitiful account of what he saw on the visit he has concluded. The condition of the country, he said, was infinitely worse than the most lurid newspaper accounts had painted it. His first visit was to a place in the district of Moscow, where he had always been accustomed to stay. He arrived to find that the place no longer existed. He wait on to another spot where he had also done business. That, too, had been almost completely destroyed. Before starting off again, for a third of his regular halting places, he took the precaution of writing to the woman who had hitherto put him up. She neyer received his letter, and upon his coming plied him, with questions. Her son had gone to Manchuria to fight in the war, and from the day of his departure she bod never bad any news of him whatever. She had written to make inquiries, but ho bad received no reply. It was impossible to form any idea of the ruin and blight upon the country unless one travelled through the country-side itself. Newspaper correspondents had naturally kept chiefly to the towns, but terrible as things were there the uniform desolation of the countryside was far more impressive, and, judging ly what he saw and the unprofitable results of his visit from the business point of view, he estimated that it would take Russia a full generation, if not longer, even under favorable circumstances, to recover from the crisis she has passed through.”