Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1905 — RUSSIAN THRONE SHAKING. [ARTICLE]

RUSSIAN THRONE SHAKING.

Red Revolution Threatens the Empire of the Czar/ Revolution is shaking the throne of Russia. All the Baltic ports are in revolt. Immense arsenals and naval depots are almost within thengrasp of the rebels. A gigantic conspiracy has been discovered in the navy to capture the naval depots at Li'bau and Reval and the arsenals at Kronstadt, the doer to St. Petersburg. The bureaucrats are panic-stricken. Emperor Nicholas himself is alarmed. He has recognized the desperation in the situation by issuing a ukase declaring that civil war exists at Odessa and ordering that the people be crushed. Sebastopol displays signs of disaffection. If the garrison of that mighty Black Sea fortress espouses the cause of the revolution the government will be doomed, at least so far as southern Russia Is concerned. The fortress is tilled with vast stores of guns, ammunition and clothing, sufficient to fit out a rebel army. With Sebastopol as a base the revolutionists could soon secure control of every city in the Black Sea region, for it has long been known that none of those cities was firm in its loyalty to the Emperor and the ruling bureaucrats. On the contrary, all have been rife with sedition. Perhaps, however, the most alarming feature of the situation for the government lies in the naval plot in the Baltic. Hundreds of officers are said to be involved in the conspiracy. Nobody can tell yet how extensive it is. At Kronstadt are the arsenals with stores of rifles, the arms and ammunition factories, and the cannon foundry. These factories and stores in the hands of skilled workmen would solve the problem of supplying a revolution with arms and munitions of war. Eight thousand imperial sailors, together with the workmen at the yards and docks of the naval port of Kronstadt, suddenly refused to work and practically a state of mutiny exists there. The revolt at Libau already is serious. The sailors revolted Wednesday night, on the pretext that the food served is not fit to eat. They secured rifles and ammunition, wrecked their barracks, and attacked and looted houses. Then they attacked the offi-

cers' quarters, firing shots through the windows. A detachment of troops, including artillery, was ordered out, and it is repoised that only after severe fighting were they able to repulse the mutineers, who, however, escaped with their arms. The mutineers, of whom there were 4,000 or more, fled to a big forest, where they defled the soldirs. Cossacks and a regiment of infantry were sent against them Thursday. Not since the unsuccessful insurrection in December, 1825, when a portion of the guard regiments joined in an attempt to set up a republic in Russia, has the situation of the autocracy and the Romanoff dynasty been 'so serious as at present.