Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 12, 1906

— An epidemic of cholera is raging at Manila, P. I.

— About 80,000 former residents of San Francisco are still drawing upon the relief stores there for food or clothing.

— The Wellman expedition in search of the north pole sailed from Tromso, Norway, July 5. Mr. Wellman will repeat the attempt of the unfortunate Andre to reach the pole in a balloon; but he will be able to direct his course in the air, by means of a motor and rudders, and he will be in other ways better equipped than was Andre.

— The terrorist secret organization at Warsaw is waging a war of extermination on the police, and so many of the latter have been killed that the remaining members of the force have been withdrawn from the streets. Many policemen received notices that they would be killed unless they resigned on or before July 3, and when a number did resign on that date, they were arrested by the authorities.

— Reports of fourth-of-July casualties received the day following the celebration show a total of thirty-eight persons killed and nearly three thousand wounded. Later reports, when tetanus has developed from injuries sustained, will materially swell the total of deaths. This is equivalent to the loss sustained in a small-sized pitched battle; it is the same as if such a battle were fought in this country yearly. The property loss amounted to $66,000.

— Mutinous outbreaks on the part of subjects of the czar are reported from Samara, Odessa, Sebastopol, and Vladivostok. Dispatches received at St. Petersburg, July 5, from Samara state that two regiments garrisoning that important provincial capital had mutinied and presented a series of political and service demands. The officers promised to satisfy the service demands if the mutineers would return to duty, but the men replied that they would be satisfied only with compliance with all their demands. The mutineers still command the situation, but are not indulging in excesses. The situation is complicated by the fact that in Samara the revolutionists are pushing a movement to proclaim a republic in case a general strike is declared, and may seize the present opportunity to further their aims. A commission appointed by the Douma to investigate the massacre at Bialystock has made a report stating that the evidence secured shows the following facts: (1) that no religious race prejudice existed to warrant the measure; (2) that the rioting was deliberately prepared by accusing the Jews of being revolutionists; (3) that the day of the riot was announced in advance by the authorities; (4) that the administration and the troops acted lawlessly in permitting the systematic killing of peaceful Jews, including women and children, under the guise of suppressing a revolution, and that six of the military and civil authorities not only assisted, but participated, in murders, tortures, and robbery. The commission recommended that steps be taken to punish the guilty civil and military officials.