BUŁYGIN GOES—TREPOV STAYS
After the secret tsarist constitution has been shown to be politically bankrupt, it is natural that the father of the infamous “Imperial Duma” follows his child into the kingdom of the shades.† Bułygin’s farewell‡ also means the farewell to the swindle of the constitution. Trepov will indeed remain as lord over the situation, which means the blatant rule-of-the-sword, slaughters of the Jews, and mass murders in public squares.
Petersburg, November 4 (report by the Petersburg Telegraph Agency). An imperial ukase accepts the request from Bułygin, Minister of the Interior, to be relieved of his post. [Pytor] Durnovo,§ who had been Bułygin’s aide until now, will temporarily fill Bułygin’s post.
Petersburg, November 5. The city Duma spent the whole day yesterday informing themselves about the means with which they could prevent the spilling of blood at the funeral ceremony today. In this, the Duma turned for support to Witte, who declared that he would permit the rally, and that in any case it was not in his remit to dispose of the troops. Whereupon the Duma decided to publish an appeal to the population, and sent a delegation to Trepov.
A BLOODBATH FOILED
A mass demonstration of the workers was planned for November 5 in Petersburg, to correspond with the burial of the victims of the tsar’s thugs. Trepov evidently prepared to turn this opportunity into a bloodbath, a general slaughter of the revolutionary working class in the capital city. The workers’ leaders decided, however—correctly recognizing tsarism’s intentions—to only go into decisive battle at a point that would be favorable for the working class, a point in time when the armament of the proletarian militias of the people would be more complete.
Petersburg, November 4 (report by the Petersburg Telegraph Agency). The Council [Soviet] of Workers’ Deputies has cancelled the rally planned for Petersburg for Sunday, and reserves the right to schedule this rally for a later point of time, when it would seem advisable to the committee.
THE COUNTERREVOLUTION MOBILIZES REACTIONARY ELEMENTS
Petersburg, November 6. A government communiqué invites the authors of the disturbances to apply moderation, and calls for loyal subjects to contribute to the pacification of the country. The government expresses its wish to be able to rely on the majority of the population, prudent as they are and focused on peace, in its implementation of the reforms. Knowing that this majority holds dear Russia’s future development based on civic freedoms and on territorial integrity. The government is counting especially on the support of the press, which must grasp that the current situation demands a unification of the mental power of the whole of the people.
Moscow, November 5 (report by the Petersburg Telegraph Agency). Several students, chased by a crowd of reactionaries, fled into a college for engineers and shot from here at their attackers, who were smashing in the college’s windows with stones. Cossacks were called, who surrounded the building.
Warsaw, November 5. The “national democratic” and “loyal” elements of the bourgeois, nobility and petit bourgeois have organized a large demonstration today under the motto of “unity of the people” and enmity against the Social Democratic “agitation of the people.”
THE COUNTERREVOLUTION MOBILIZES MEN OF THE CLOTH
Petersburg, November 5. The synod has commanded the orthodox clergy to block the population’s struggle, as it degenerates into a civil war, with all means at its disposal. Warsaw’s governor-general has been informed by telegraph that the immediate release of Catholic clergy, confined to monasteries due to religious offenses by order of the civil authorities, would be appropriate.
THE COUNTERREVOLUTION ORGANIZES ARSON AND MURDER
Baku, November 5 (report by the Petersburg Telegraph Agency). While conservative Russian and Muslim workers (or, to put it in real German: police stooges) with national flags and pictures of the emperor organized a rally, other individuals shot at and threw grenades at houses of Armenians. Whereupon the agitated “workers” set fire to the house of an Armenian; the fire spread to twenty further houses.
The “pro-manifesto party”* looted four shops. During these proceedings, roughly twenty persons were killed or injured and several of the looters were arrested.
Tbilisi, November 5 (report by the Petersburg Telegraph Agency). When a number of reactionaries with pictures of the emperor moved through the city today, revolver shots and grenades were targeted at them. Troops who were accompanying the procession responded to the shooting by killing ten persons and wounding around thirty.
Tbilisi, November 5 (report by the Petersburg Telegraph Agency). Yesterday, during alternating reactionary and revolutionary rallies in Vladikavkaz, both parties collided. Both sides fired off shots, killing four persons and injuring seventeen.
Ivanovo-Voznesensk, November 5 (report by the Petersburg Telegraph Agency). Disturbances directed against the Jews commenced today. Numerous houses with shops attached to them were looted; and Jews were also killed and wounded.
Warsaw, November 5. A few pathetic miscreants, who intended to call for a pogrom against the Jews, were battered to death by the workers.
Warsaw, November 6. Persons arriving here from the scene report that the scenes of terror in Kiev continue. People are looting both day and night, and the rabble is ruling the streets, without intervention by either military or the police.
Moscow, November 6. As reported in the Russkoye Slovo [Russian Word] from Odessa, looting continued throughout the whole city yesterday. Gangs of felons roamed the streets carrying out all manner of atrocities. Children were torn away from their mothers and cut up into bits. Doctors, nurses and priests were killed in the presence of plainclothes police agents; everything going was looted and stolen to the last. We can assume that the disturbances were organized by police spies.
THE GENERAL STRIKE PERSISTS!
Brest, November 5. Delegates from the workers in the arsenal voted in principle for the general strike.
Łódź, November 4. On order of the authorities here in the city, forty-nine detainees have been released from prison. The strike is holding out.
Moscow, November 4 (report by the Petersburg Telegraph Agency). All restaurants and hostelries selling meals are closed because of the food workers’ strike.
THE LABOR PARTY IN FINLAND DOMINATES THE SITUATION!
Helsinki, November 5. After negotiations between the bourgeois Constitutional [Democratic Party]* and the Labor Party,† the latter published an ultimatum today, in which it stated that it would vote in a provisional government and would offer the Constitutional [Democratic] Party two seats in this government. The Constitutional [Democratic Party] has refused meanwhile to take part in such a government.
THE PROLETARIAN “DICTATORSHIP”
Przybiernów, November 5 (private dispatch to Vorwärts). Here, in the Dąbrowa Region, Social Democracy has constituted a kind of “provisional government.” Countless representatives from all classes of citizens come to the office, opened in all haste, to request permission to hold meetings, to inquire about directives and news, and to receive the latest proclamations. The working class is ceaselessly putting on huge meetings.
THE INSURRECTION AMONG SAILORS AND SOLDIERS
This semi-official telegram reports:
Tbilisi, November 4. Participants at a patriotic (that means organized by police stooges) rally, who paraded through the streets of Baku with a picture of the emperor, were ambushed by twenty sailors from the Caspian Fleet, armed with carbine guns. The sailors were disarmed and arrested by the troops accompanying the demonstrators.
Shots aimed at Russian and Tatar pro-manifesto supporters came from houses lived in by Armenians, which were then put under cannon fire.
Kronstadt, November 5. A crowd of sailors, soldiers, and workers looted several buildings (probably public buildings—the editors) this evening. The military, which had been sent to suppress these breaches of the peace, fired off many shots and cordoned off a number of streets.
The Berliner Zeitung receives the following telegraph from Paris. As reported in Le Matin, a whole regiment of infantry has gone over to join the revolutionaries in Liepāja. A division of Cossacks, which wanted to move against the crowd, was forced to flee by the mutineers.
PARTIAL RECOMMENCEMENT OF RAILROAD TRANSPORT
Berlin, November 5. The Bromberg Railroad Division has made the following statement: They are now again accepting goods intended for transit to Russia via Prostki, but only those intended for stations on the southwest railroads, with the exceptions of Odessa and Kiev.
Warsaw, November 6. The first train arrived yesterday from Petersburg, with further trains following today. According to rumors, this means that the Poles should be entitled to significant concessions. (The government obviously wants to win over the “well-meaning elements,” in order to use them against the working class in Poland.)