Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1905 — The Rioting at Warsaw. [ARTICLE]

The Rioting at Warsaw.

While the disturbances are not yet ended in Russia, they have reached a stage where their futility i# Self-evident. The world is aware how they were extinguished in St. Petersburg in the blood of their authors. The same repressive measures were applied in Moscow, Riga, Libau, Saratoff and other centers of agitation, and the mailed hand of militarism is enforcing obedience to the reign of the knout in Warsaw, Lodz and other cities of Poland. At Riga, eight miles from the Gulf of Riga, the soldiers and mob came into bloody conflict. When the soldiers opened fire great crowds rushed down the embankments of the river Dtina, hoping to escape across the ice. The latter gave way and scores are said to have been precipitated into the water, where they sank to death in its icy embrace. At Riga the disturbances were purely political and were fomented by students from other parts of Russia. The most serious disturbances of any outside of St. Petersburg were the distinguishing features of Warsaw, Poland. There, too, the agitation was political in nature and there, too, the demonstrators, to a greater degree than elsewhere, boldly faced the soldiery, using revolvers and knives ngniust the representatives of autocracy and repression. In the desultory fighting which was carried on in the streets 1(>0 persons, it is estimated, were killed or wounded. One phase of the • Russian situation that created a deep international interest was the posting of proclamations in various cities, wherein it was charged tlint English ngents were fomenting the troubles and furnishing the necessary funds, in order to embarrass Russia in the work of sending re-enforcements, naval and military, to the far East. Great Britain took exception to this, acting in diplomatic channels, and the placards were pulled down and a rebuke was administered to those responsible for them. Another incident which once threatened to take on an international importance was the Wounding by Russian troops of the British consul and vice consul in the streets of Wnrsaw. The affair, however, was purely accidental and the matter quickly subsided.