Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — PROCLAIM WAR. [ARTICLE]

PROCLAIM WAR.

Rnsslann Rebels Formally Proclaim for Armed Uprising. It is no longer a strike but an open, armed rebellion, in Russia. The council of workmen-met secretly in St, Petersburg Saturday night and after an eighthour session adopted a" resolution to call off the strike Monday “because the fight of the people against the government can no longer be limited to the disorganization of the economic life of the nation through a univercal strike and is already in many parts of the country taking on the character of an armed uprising.” “The council of workmen’s deputies,” the resolution concludes, “decides to proceed immediately with warlike operating a*.d the organization of an armed uprising.” The council recognized tlint the attempt of an immediate uprising could not succeed in the capital, but while making preparations it would be necessary to undertake a sort of guerrilla warfare, consisting of the disarming of police and soldiers wherever they are found alone in the streets, the use of bombs from ambush and other acts of terror. The council drew up a proclamation to the Cossacks warning them that if they continued to fight against the people they would be treated like mad dogs and if they desired to be treated like brothers they should remain in their barracks. An appeal was also drawn up requesting the proletariat of all countries to support the fight begun at Moscow.