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Show WILL BLOOD RUN RED IN RUSSIA Serious Apprehension for May Day. Agitators Anxious to Make It Another "Red Sunday." JIaDy Bombs and Arms Known to Have Been Smuggled in; Workmen Work-men Urged to UscVThem. i ST. rKTERSBURO, May -VTomor-row, the Russian May clay. Is aw ile .1 with nervousness by both tho public and tho authorities. The, revolutionary nlta-tors nlta-tors would llko to make It another "Red Sunday" In every city of the empire, and every where aro urging worimcn to le-brato le-brato the fete with nnti-aovdrnrne.nt demonstration dem-onstration and to resist with ;irm6 If the police and troops Interfere. Radicals Give Covert Aid. The agitators are covertly aldod by fx-imo radical who have, not tho courage to come out Into tho open, and who urn trying to pave the way to set up th" i ry of shooting down of innoctonts in the event of bloodshed by w.rnJng the authorities au-thorities with meetings whlHi BTO i n tended to be pacific. But a perusal of the countless proclamations with which St. Petersburg Is flooded prmVs conrluslv . that it is really intended to psedpltate collisions. Many Workmen Armed. Many workmen nr- said to bo armed with bomh9 and revolvers, and ri large stock of pistols of an automatic repeating type, smuggled in for the r. v..l it mnlsts, nro being offered for sale to the initiated et cost price. Fortunatelv snner Liberal and even those of radical views, realizing the futility fu-tility of bloodshed, am . . nfri-ellivr tho workmen not to Jeopardize th.ir lives Uselessly. The police also hzavo Issued svstcmatlc. w.irnlncrs. Call Big Meetings. Nevertheless, dlsdninirg the rulvlce of well-wlsher9 and defying the warnings of the police, the So 1 I n-mo-rnts utd Social So-cial Revolutionists have . -.til. -d hit meetings meet-ings to bo held at Smol. r.i Ib id m Vhs-lli Vhs-lli Island, at tho Preobrajnsk r. incV.ry. on the, Bchuaaelburg cha iaee where some of the victims of January 22 are hurled, at the Petrovsky park in the Fiborg quarter, al several places in the Pmlioff district and at Other Industrial centers Bloodshed Seems Assured. It is almost too much to hope the rtiv will pafls in Russia without collisions .or bloodshed. Governor-Gen. r I Trcnad and Director of Police Kovalenaky, while expressing the hope that all will bV qulel tomorrow as far as St. Petersburg Is concerned, admit tho possibility of disorders At the same time they Insisted In-sisted to the Associated Press that If blood l spilled the responsibility must rest on those who deliberately provoke It. Elaborate Precautions Taken. Elaborate precautions have been taken. The garrison of the city was further reinforced re-inforced during the week, and a largo ! tachment of Don Cossacks aiTlved tonight. to-night. Thev stared open-eyed at their View of the St. Isaacs cathedral and other sights of the big city as they rode t" their quarters. Twenty-five thousand Cossacks were stationed tonight In various quarters of tho city, principally In the outskirts and all of the guard regiments are under arms, but specific orders Issued by Prince Vassllchlkoff. Grand Duke Vladimir's Vladi-mir's aide, who will be In active command, com-mand, arc that the orders to fire must under no circumstances be given until tho troops ore nctually attacked. Special Orders Given. Special orders have also been given to the Cossacks, who. with the gendarmerie, gendar-merie, will bo used to disperse the crowds, to not even draw th lr . itlru-'e unless In tho event of a Cossack being killed or wounded, but to employ their whips freely if necessary to scatter demonstrators. dem-onstrators. Peaceful crowds, if not organised or-ganised for demonstrating, will bo permitted per-mitted to assemble. No Sign of Trouble Saturday. Todav there was no sign of approaching approach-ing trouble. The workmen paid their accustomed Saturday visits to the bath houses and went shopping In the town' and otherwise enjoyed the half-holiday. There was no indication of the tension apparent on the eve of tho trouble of January 2l. At Goulyanye park beyond tho Poutlloff Industrial quarter there was tho traditional promenade of girls of the poorer classes before prospective benedicts, and tho merry-making wee as noisy and hearty as ever. |