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Show COUNT WITTE HAS HERCULEAN TASK People Have Peculiar Way of Celebrating New-Foun d Freedom. RENEWED DISORDERS IN INTERIOR GIVE CONCERN Socialists Bend Every Effort to Precipitate Republic-Producing Catastrophe. AT PETERSBURG, Nov. 1. Although todav passed In comparative quiet in St. rrTPr.shurg and Moscow, a floo.1 of dlH-prt.-hes from all parts of the empire, report re-port disorders In many r-itlea, with a heavy total of dead and wounded. The peoplo while celebrating thlr new-found freedom were in many Instances set upon by I'opsocks and police, while sometimes tho spirit of mob violence broke forth and t h lower elements of the population gave thrmsclvea to plllago anil destruction. Serious at Odessa. The most serious disorders apparent l occurred at Odessa, where hundreds of peraona are reported to have been killed or wounded, and where the rioting Is momentarily mo-mentarily expected to nrn out into repetliii.n uf the slaughter of irtst .Inland .Inl-and at Kazan, where a three days' reign of terror was ended oiily by the retirement retire-ment of all Cossacks to their barracks Antl-Jewish Uprisings. A deplorable feature of ih news from the Interior Is that anti-Jewish uprisings have occurred In many places, especially In southern Russia, where the populace vented Its hatred of the -Jews by sacking their stores and clubbing the members of the race, in aomo cases resorting to the torch. , Cossacks Let Loose. Ph'-' attacks mi tin- crowds nre reported to he In most i. ises the work f CoSSACke who many times were apparently let looso upon th, p.-,.pi. with.. nt dir.-. tluti or authority. au-thority. Trepoff Holds Tight Hand. In St. Petersburg today Gen Trepoff. in accordance with hw announcemenl of last t.lL'ht. prevented Ihe esunptlon of revo-lutlonarj revo-lutlonarj demonstrations by having th. rowd? dlsoersed whenever and whtftver thej gathered ECacan place and the Novsky prospect were several times cleared by Cossacks Bad police, and th. crowds were driven from the vicinity of the unlversltj with whips .uid the Bats of s,alirs flm Trein.ff was .ilde.l liv thi, weather, which wa.i cold and rainy and which kept many persons off the streets Witte Is Disappointed. Count YVltte's task In sc urlng a fulr trial for tho new i perlment In constitu-tiuti.iHsm constitu-tiuti.iHsm lfl ;i niost dlfHcult our. He is disappointed al not securing the support of th Liberals, on whose co-operation he uuntcd. Many of these are holding aloof and seem rathe, to enjoy the predicament pre-dicament In which the new Premier llnds himself Socialists Want Republic. Meanwhile the Socialists and revolutionaries, revolu-tionaries, who believe they have the G v-ernmenl v-ernmenl stampeded, are bending every effort ef-fort to keep tin mot em nl going and to precipitate a catastrophe from which tiny hope a Socialistic Republic will emerge. This is a consummation as little to be dealrcd hv the majority of Liberals, especially the Zemsosts as by the Ijnv- eminent Itself and therein lies the chief hope that tho force gathering under the Manner of Count YVItte Is sufficiently strung to niako head against the revd lutlonary movement and the spirit of unrest un-rest throughout the country. Liberty of Press Overlooked. Count Witte Is doing his utniosi to meet the chief objections against the new regime. re-gime. In addition to I lie promised amnesty am-nesty for political prisoners, liberty of the press has been granted. Count ltte Offering to a deputation of editors who called on Iii in to demand the abolition of the censorship regulation the amusing explanation th-it in the hurry of writing the manifesto the words 'liberty of the press" wero Inadvertently omitted, and that tho omission had not been noticed until the complaint was made. The (Jfllclal Gazette formallv announces that the term "liberty of speech'' Is to be interpreted as including the press. Won't Dismiss Trepoff. Against the demand fur the removal pf Gen. Trepoff. Count Witte, however Is inflexible He informed a delegation from the. strike committee, which called on him today to demand the release of their Imprisoned comrades and I lie, removal of Gen. Trepoff that It would be mednSSS for him to dismiss the onlv man capable of maintaining order in the city at the present Juncture. Industrial Strike Off. Nominally for the purpose of peife.t-ing peife.t-ing their Organization and gathering funds the stnl;,, ouminltt. tonight ib - elded to call off the St. Petersburg Industrial In-dustrial strike at noon Friday next, but in resume It at an opportune moment Think Soldiers Will Desert The St. Petersburg railroad nun have resolved to continue their strike, declaring declar-ing they have assurances that the Soldiers of the rallru.ul battalion will . -s.-rr If a little psrsussion In the way of train-wrecking Is employed No newspapers win be issued tomorrow tomor-row and probably not until Friday at noon. Disregard the Censor. The printers have determined to work only for the Journals which refuse, to submit themselves to the censorship regulations. The Publishers association has met this determination by resolving to disregard hereafter all circulars is- sued by the censor and to print what they please The nl papers now ap-pearing ap-pearing are the official publh atoms and the Worklngmen's Gazette which tomorrow tomor-row will contain an article attacking Count Witte and Gen. Trepoff calling tho former by the name of "Sly Fox'' and the latter hj the designation of "the l a venous wolf " i |