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Show BLOODY OUTBREAK IS FEARED IN RUSSIA ST. PETERSBURG. March 28. Despite the Government's assurance that another extensive outbreak In the Immediate future fu-ture Is Impossible, the clouds are lowering and there are other Indications that a big storm may break before Parliament meets. The resentment against the terrible terri-ble repressive measures of . the Government Govern-ment is arousing the people, especially the workmen In cltien, to fury. This is playing into the hands of the revolutionists, who are planning a strike and a general uprising. They believe the right moment will come in mid-April, and both sides are preparing for the fray. If it comes it is likely to be bloodier and more terrible than anything previously witnessed in this country. The record of arrests last week in St. Petersburg, besides be-sides showing an awful state of lawlessness lawless-ness in the capital, is eloquent testimony of the methods by which the Government hopes to prevent th threatened explosion. According to the returns, 659 beggars, 216 persons without passports. 217 thieves, 270 highwaymen and 10o7 "unclassified'1 persons, which means political suspects, were taken into custody. At no time during th war was th War office more busy than now, making dispositions dis-positions to suppress the first evidence of rebellion. Machine guns and ammunition are being dispatched in every direction, troops are being shifted at and concentrated concen-trated at strategic points; armored trains are being stationed at railroad centers, and Ironclad automobiles are being sent to the larger cities for use in street riots. |