RUSSIA AND HER PROBLEMS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 8, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 10.

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RUSSIA AND HER PROBLEMS.

A REPORT from Berlin states that the whole of Caucasia is in open revolt; that Armenians, Prussians, and Circassians have formed a coalition against the emperor of Russia, and seized arms and even cannon from the soldiers; that they hold the governor of the district a prisoner; that revolutionists are organizing camps outside the cities. The Baku district is said to be panic-stricken; banks are closed and business suspended as a result of the attacks of armed Mussulmans on Armenians. Many murders are reported. The strike situation in the Southwest is said to be spreading.
As a result of the murder of Grand Duke Sergius, martial law has been declared at Tsarkoe-Selo. Numerous threatening letters are being received by officials. The chief of police has ordered special precautions to prevent any outrage upon members of the royal family. At a great meeting of students and educators at St. Petersburg, it was decided to suspend school work. Almost the whole educational system of Russia has entered upon a period of stagnation, the protest of the youth of Russia against the bureaucratic system.
A German manufacturer who has just returned from Warsaw, reports that in the conflict there between troops and strikers, no less that 2,000 dead covered the battle-field in the center of the city. One-third of these were declared to be women and children. A later report from the same place states that strikers are resorting to violence. They have destroyed the great switch-board railway station, and cut the telegraph wires. The government of Warsaw admits that it does not know how to handle the situation. The strike situation is spreading in every direction. The Vienna railroad is completely at a standstill, and Western Poland is completely cut off from communication with Middle and Western Europe, except by telegraph.
In spite of the peace talk indulged in to a considerable extent during the week, reports still indicate the determination of the Russian war party to continue hostilities. The czar hopes to defeat Oyama, and then secure more favorable terms. There is considerable activity along the entire front of the two armies in Manchuria.
The fighting wing of the Russian Socialists is said to have decreed the death of every member of the Russian royal family, and the empire is in dread of the next move.