, - , - - Ji -Jt t : : I:.--::;.::!::: b .St. Pctcrslfrj n::ll; ' .S:;;ress:: Ly Police. , movement wai almost Impossible, trie snow-covered boulevard was b'nc with a tangled mass of sieighs tuieU mHtly with the curious. loward 1 o'clock the workmen end students stu-dents seemed to saxrm toward tne cr-rer cr-rer of the Hotel Europe. opposite f a K&xan cathedral. The police, reconizi' i tnat the critical moment was approacn-Ing, approacn-Ing, tried in vain to keep back the hums hu-ms n tide. Then, when there m lot e.stnr'e mounted pou. man In ht, on the strode of 1 from the heart of t&e thlckly-weded crowd a blood-red flag, like. Jet . of Game, suddenly shot up. . r It was the signal. Other f.aps appeared tn the crowd, wavins; franticauy overhead; and Uiey were ft reeled wkb a hoarse roar, "Down wl'h autocracy." 1 The student surged Into the street singing; "Marseillaise," while innocent spectators, seeking to extricate themselves, them-selves, crowded into doorways and hug-fed the walls. i - , Dismounted polio made a single attempt at-tempt to force their way Into the crowd to wrest the flats from the demonstrators, demonstra-tors, but the students and workmen, armed with sticks, stood close and beat baok their assailants. Then, like a dash. from, behind the Kaxan cathedral came a squadron of gens darmes. The doors of adjoining court yards were thrown back, and battalions bat-talions of police) cam - out. A. double squadron charged the Sank ef the dem-' dem-' operators with drawn sabers. , : 1 - -----Dea 22. A. 'rr 'Ur ariU-Govemraent demonstration, tne rartlcipanta Jn' t : included the larfe fcircbera of sllents of both sexes, began be-gan at midday in the Nevskt prospect and lasted about two hours. Is cf po'Jce and mour.ted gens Vrr s were Ud3an in the court yard of tie j .t'.'.o bull-ilr-g, emerged suddenly and . . c ar; ;d the crowd at full gallop driving t. de&onstrators in headlong confusion and screaming with terror upon sidewalks side-walks and Into s-ijacent streets. This led to serious encounters, fifty persons per-sons being mors or less severely Injured. Large numbers were arrested. Not sines the rtets of 1901, when Cossacks Cos-sacks stretched across the Nevskl prospect pros-pect front bull ding to building, charged . , dowa tie boulevard from the Moscow Station to the Neva, has the Russian cap. ' ital lived through such a day of excitement excite-ment as this.- The newspaper waralnrs. by giving notice no-tice to thoe not apprised of the prospect' of a demonstration, defeated the very object ob-ject for which they were designed, attracting at-tracting seemingly h whole population of this vast city to the broad thoroughfare; thorough-fare; and long before the hour fixed, despite de-spite the pleading of the police, who lit-- lit-- erally lined the sidewalks, the ' throngs on the pavements were so dense that ' Five other squadrons circled the mob, cutting through the fringe of spectators, who gladly scurried to caver. The main wedge of the demonstrators stood fast 4nly a moment or two. There was a sharp rattle of cudgels and sabrs, then the- wounds showed that the police struck principally with the flat of their sabers. The women were especially fierce in their resistance. Many were struck and trampled, and blood streamed down their faces. While the mob stood those within managed man-aged to throw thousands of revolutionary pioclamations over the heads of their fellows. The police urged their horses fiercely into the srowda, driving thoee who resisted into the court yards, the Hotel Europe and the Catholic church. The Intense excitement lasted abost ten minutes, after which mounted squads of the gens d'armes patrolled the streets and the policemen devoted themselves to keeping the crowd moving, fate of the Zrmstvs programme was In the balance such a fruitless outbreak will bo sure to prejudice every observer and put the strongest weapon in the bsird of the bureaucratic reactionaries.