The Russian Crisis.

Opunake Times, Volume XXII, Issue 774, 19 September 1905, Page 2

The Russian Crisis.

St. Petersburg, Sept. 15. The Russign Government's secret circular to the Governors of the provinces and Mayors of towns betrays the greatest distrust of the Zemstvos, declaring that once they are done away with the disorders in the oountry will stop. It directs the authorities to closely watch these demagogues, and arrest them on the slightest pretext. The officials are ordered to prevent the distribution of publications calculated to seduoe any ' from allegiance to the autocracy. Further reinforcements have been sent te Baku.

The Governor of Elizabethpol has made a request for troops, as the situation has become more menacing.

A revolutionary proclamation issued at Tiflis urges a general rising. September 17.

The Czar has ordered an immediate concentration o f troops at the oil fields to ensure order, and the formation of a police force, recruited from reservists, to protect the works. The Czar pencilled a marginal note in the report dealing with the bomb explosion at Tavastchus, to the effect that if such affairs continued a state of war would be declared in Finland. The situation at Batoum suggests massacres similar to those at Baku. A brigade of infantry and artillery is proceeding thither. The report upon the cause and circumstances of the disturbances states that two French women were arrested at Odessa for smuggling revolutionary literature, great stocks of which were seized aboard the Messageries Maritimes steamer Guardian. Constantinople, Sep. 15. Germany is suspected of trying to induce the Porte to concede a naval station at the Island of Thasoß, near the Dardanelles.