Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1905 — REVOLT IN RUSSIA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

WARSAW AND LODZ UNDER RULE OF “RED TERROR." Bloody "Riot, in the Street, of Two Cities—Ten Regiment, of Troop. Battle with Sixty Thousand Striker.— Many Women and Children Shot. Russia again seems at the beginning of a revolution. Poland Is aflame wltn excitement and the workingmen in all South Russia are in a ferment The Czar's government is in as great danger at home as is his army In Manchlirifu The Jews and the Gentile peasants are making common cause against the government The story of the Lodz massacre is filled with details of unspeakable cruelty ed I?/ the Cdlsaclis. Tud and young, mem women an 3 children were shot down like dogs. The present trouble began Tuesday after the funeral of the victims of the conflict between troops and terrorists the previous Sunday. The ’Christians were permitted to bury their dead, but the Jews were prohibited from doing so, and the police secretly Interred the bodies of the Jews at night, which excited Indignation and terrorists’ riots were initiated Thursday. The most serious phase of the rioting developed when the crowd deliberately pillaged liquor shops, and numbers of persons, inflamed by drink, led a crowd of at least 50,000 to further and more serious attacks. Police and military were attacked wherever they appeared in small force and many individual members were killed. Much of this disorder took place on Piotrokow street, one of the principal thoroughfares of the city. After pillaging the liquor shops the crowd set fire to them and prevented the firemen from extinguishing the flames. This was repeated deliberately at many places. The fury of the mob ■was given full vent, and even children, caught by the contagion, were seen kissing red flags and heard swearing that they were ready to die for liberty. A Jewish girl mounted a box in the market square and addressed an immense crowd. Suddenly the police appeared, fired a volley, and the girl fell dead. Market gardeners coming in were

stopped and their carts used in building barricades. Wires were stretched In front of these barricades and the cavalry was unable to charge. Meanwhile the mob had secured arms and they were freely used. The military finally secured the upper hand, but not without considerable losses to themselves and fearful slaughter to the rioters. The soldiers exhibited the utmost carelessness as to whether they killed peaceful*persons or rioters, and as a cohsequence many women and children were among the dead. At dawn Friday began a day of terror. The city was given over to bloodshed. Anarchy and fierce street fighting prevailed all day. In Warsaw Saturday night gendarmes charged a crowd and infantry patrols fired two volleys. The crowd was also armed and fired upon the troops. The social democratic party of Poland and Lithuania has issued a proclamation calling out workmen as a protest against the Lodz massacre and the men in the workshops of the Warsaw and Vienna and the Vistula railroads struck. Other workingmen’s organizations threaten a general strike because of the sentencing to death of Stephen Okreija, who threw a bomb into the Praga police station March 26, killing six policemen. Processions were formed and marched with red flags. A mounted patrol crossed the procession and one of the marchers threw a bomb, which exploded and wounded two gendarmes. The man who threw the missile eseap*J

All the street railways, except on the principal thoroughfares in the city, have been stopped and the newspapers have suspended publication. Two thousand persons have been killed or wounded as the result of three days of tierce street fighting between rjpters and Russian soldiers in Lodz. “Black Friday” In Lodz surpased all the horrors of “Red Sunday” in St Petersburg. • The conflict was continuous except for a short lull following the throwing into the city of heavy re-enforcements. Shooting was resumed Saturday night. Bodies were left lying in the streets for hours and the Cossacks robbed the dead of jewels and money. The city, dispatches say, resembles a shambles, and the

terible scenes will n&ver be wiped from the memory of the Polish people. The fighting spirit of the people is fully aroused. They have tasted blood and want more. Certainly the revolutionary spirit is abroad, and it remains to be seen whether military measures will have the same effect as previously.

COSSACKS CHARGING RIOTERS IN LODZ.