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Show ;a : PMMI1 WILL BE SUSBiNE:) mm nathjnhl mmu vsm jWders Say They Have Organized the asantry, and That the Anticipated Famine Will Make Them Desperate; Struggle in Zemstvo Congress. , rt - LODZ, Russian Poland, Nov. 20. About 200 persons were ar Vsted by the military in the Catholic church of the Holy Cross here J sterday for singing patriotic songs. When the soldiers reached Al kalajiewski street with their prisoners, a crowd of people abnsed tCVscort and the officers in command ordered the troops to fire. Two pien and one woman were killed and four men were wounded. .V7TARSAW, Russian Poland, Nov. 20. The Consuls have asked . tbXjuithorities to protect the foreign residents, owing to the precarious preca-rious conditions prevailing. BULLETIN. ODESSA, .Not. 20. The situation ? in -this city is again somewhat dis--Vquleting. A recrudescence of the disorders dis-orders is threatened by the so-called loyalist element, and there are rumors of a mutinous spirit among the troops. . The members of the British colony held conference today under the presidency of the Consul, and arranged ar-ranged at the first sign of disorders .to assemble at the consulate and de- jnand that the Russian authorities send a guard of soldiers to the consulate.." resolutions to be offered by M. Nemlro-veski, Nemlro-veski, Mayor of Saratoff. and M. Kuch-eroff. Kuch-eroff. Mayor of KhrakolT. proposing co-operation with Count Witte in the general pacification of the country and the introduction of.the reforms with the understanding that the national army will work out the details. Reactionary Measures. The men who are making a fight on the necessity for supporting Count Wltte urge that unless the country Is tranauilized. the Government will be forced to return 'to reactionary measures. meas-ures. From the dispatches received, however, it is likely that even If the radical wing is outvoted, certain guarantees guar-antees will be demanded as the price of the co-operation of the Zemstvoists. It is significant that a delegate to the Zetruavoik who presented himself as the representative of the Jewish population popu-lation of : Vilna. Lithuania, was excluded. ex-cluded. ' Sure to Result in Split Many Liberals here believe that the Congress is sure to result in a split and that the Radical wing standing on its insistence upon a constituent assembly and universal suffrage, will refuse all connection with the Government. The plan loudly discussed by the Extremists Extrem-ists a fortnight ago of turning the Congress Con-gress Into a constituent assembly appears ap-pears to have fallen through. While no further information has been received regarding the reported false Emperor, who was said to be marching at the head of thousands of peasants in the province of Penza, the turbulence there has become so threatening threat-ening that the Government has placed the province in a state of siege. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 20. With the collapse of the strike the leaders of the "Reds" say they will now devote their energies to the-preparation of a universal political strike to sustain, the revolutionary programme when the national assembly meets. v These plans, which were suddenly "v upset by tbet precipitation of the rail-ttoad rail-ttoad strike last month, are exceedingly r ambitious, involving the co-operation not only of the workmen of the cities, '. but the peasantry, and if possible the, ) army and navy. The propaganda among the soldiers and sailors' will be j pushed energetically. Peasantry Is Organized. The leaders already claim that they have organized the peasantry in five districts of Kharkoff province, the peasants having agreed not to work for the landlords when the strike is called. The anticipate that the famine, which Is at the doors of almost 15,000,000 peasant peas-ant of the central provinces, accord-inttO accord-inttO estimates, will prove an effective tfot the agitation as they can prom- ls1 to give the peasants land to an unlimited un-limited extent. Te plague, which is moving north-4. north-4. ardjjpm the Kirghiz steppe, if not (Jtamped out In the Vistula region, may loon serve the purpose of arousing the ignorant and superstitious peasants. 'The leaders will urge the proletariat everywhere to secure arms and be prepared pre-pared to fight for their rights. Struggle at Moscow. The struggle in progress in the Moscow Mos-cow Zemstvo Congress is watched with interest The main question to be decided de-cided Is whether the Zemstvoists will co-operate with the Government and on what terms. The test probably will come up on the |