Show LIFE UNSAFE IN INTHE INTHE INTHE THE CAUCASUS Armenian Arel an and Tartar Rioters Beyond Control ANARCHY REIGNS SUPREME INHABITANTS MASSACRED AND TOWNS ABLAZE T PETERSBURG Sept Sept 7 a am ai ST S i m The news new from front Baku received up to the time of ot the tIme filing of this dispatch Is ia of the gloomiest character The Time Armenian and Tartar warring fac tac factions tons now flOW now appear to be entirely beyond control The streets of ot Baku seem to tobe tobe tobe Jaku be unsafe for tOl the inhabitants and the force torce of troops to be inadequate to restrain the anarchical tendencies of the combatants in the surrounding re region region region gion According to reliable reports repOts the troops have been b en forced force to withdraw from the time suburb of where Tuesday the rioters rioter set five fire to t the oil 01 works and that place is now in the hands of the who have com corn completed completed the work of destruction and nd who vho It i is said massacred the inhabitants inhabitants who did not ilot accompany the troops in their retirement and railroad communication between Baku and the suburban oil al centers are cut and late last night it i was reported that the wires into Baku were W c down clown Situation Is Desperate The viceroy of ot the Caucasus has dis cia dispatched patched reinforcements of troops from Tiflis but ring ing to th the conditions throughout the whole of the southern part of the time Caucasus with wih these re reinforcements reInforcements reinforcements the troops will wi be made inadequate quate qUIte to cope with time the situation In Inthe Inthe Inthe the suburban region the fight tight is des desperate de desperate and the time soldiers solders are using ar artillery artlery tillery Representatives of the the oil 01 industry here hero are utterly despondent and they timey declare that on the basis of the thu tele telegrams telegrams grams so fat far received more than half hal of the industry in the time Baku region has been wiped out and that the fire fre is making rapid progress inroads into the remainder of ot the oil oi territory Question Queston of Escaping Alive Alve The Baku representative of a prom prominent prominent company has lies telegraphed to his St Petersburg headquarters as folloWs fellows It I is no longer a a question queston of saving our property but one of getting out alive iv S SS S S SA A press dispatch from Baku ap approved approved approved proved by the censor says The Tue rival factions are concentrating their quarters here The situation is exceedingly intense Murders are fre frequent frequent quent quent Cannonading is heard herd from time timeto to time In the Moslem quarter tho the patrols patrols have been fired fred upon Balak hen han is on fire and ad the time Armenians are arc surrounded by armed villagers apparently Tartars and the te cannonading there re is unceasing The fire continues in the Black lIeck town quarter and Energetic meas mess measures measures ures urea and heavy hEv reinforcements of troops are immediately necessary Fierce Fires Raging Other advices state that a hot fight is g gin ging on between Armenians and Tartars at ut bt and that great gred fires fire are still tl raging at and fed by immense tank tanka of naptha of which there are 1600 18 in that region ju and d that the con conflagration conflagration at Ht Bal Balu regon u where up to last evening v the tanks of or the society of oC Baku Balm were intact Is steadily increasing Under these thee conditions condition with fighting going on in the streets and with wih a I hurricane blow blowing blowing lug ing ing the tue advices say it I will wi be he almost im ha impossible possible to extinguish the fires Urgent Need of Troops Oi Oi men who assembled at St Peters Petersburg Petersburg burg yesterday formulated measures which they deemed imperative and which they presented ren to Finance Minister Ko ICe These ho measures which Thich probably will wi be laid before the th emperor after de detailing detailing tailing the cause leading to tIme the l present reent situation ask that the oil on works be b sur mir surrounded rounded ro by troops troop and that the inflammatory inflammatory matory elements namely the Armenians and Tartars Tartara be entirely excluded from I the oil 01 region The oil 01 men declare that tut they do not hold the workmen responsible I ble hie and that the regrettable events event were not caused by b the move movement movement I ment which is i economic and political I but that ther their causes MUle are reen reeo rooted in inthe inthe 1 the tb long continued general disorder which has reigned in time the th region owing solely to t I rivalry among the time rices rc Loss Is Serious A prominent oil oi man mun explained to the Associated pre Pre reas that the Ute loss 10 would wold bo be more mort farrea hing than the Ut mere finan financial cial value Iut of the oil 01 and con eon consumed conme me and nd of the tanks buildings and machinery destroyed because time the tt supply of ot Oil 01 for purposes purpose pur of fuel could not bo be replaced II de of a I year far and end that the th of Russia Hu l which makes make a heavy 1 uw use of oil 01 for fuel would suffer stiffer greatly He lie said it i wits wag Wll the ou o om m to stacks lt of ot naphtha in iii winter fer consumption in summer and that there now was wa no recourse but ut to t import oil U at high prices or to have resort to the te costly coty adoption of or plants and locomotives which would consume other It I is 18 expected that the tho crume ministry of finance will wi take immediate steps step to remove or to reduce the time tariff on oil 01 as suggested ted by bythe bythe I the conference of experts and others in int interested t in tn the th use us ua of oil 01 for tor fuel r rl rim I centy held at the suggestion of th the min minister mm I liter ister of f finance |