Show RH flAG RIOTS IN CZARS CITY The Streets of St Petersburg Packed by a Mob of Forty Thousand Revolutionists Troops Charge the Rioters and Many Are InjuredOnly Calmness of Officers Prevents Recurrence of Day Like Red Sunday St Petersburg The opening on Tuesday of the douma or lower houso of the Russian parliament although In Itself devoid of Incident was mado the occasion ol a great revolution demonstration by the St Petersburg proletariat and students which resulted result-ed in several encounters between the police and tho populace and more or less serious injury to a number of the latter The situation was such that the author Ies finally were forced to fill the streets with military patrols as In the ominous days of the Trcpoll regime After the adjournment of tho house a tumultous crowd estimated to number num-ber close to forty thousand persons with red banners flying and accompanied accompa-nied by the music of revolutionary chants started toward the central quarter of the city where the winter palace of the emperor Is located Few elements of tho prelude of lied Sun ida i-da were lacking and the command I Fire would have precipitated a similar massacre But the present prefect pre-fect of St Petersburg General Dra cheffsky followed another course and dispersed the procession by charges ot mounted gendarmes armed with whips By an Imposing display ot force he prevented the demonstrators from reforming |