The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-29
RUSSIA Keeling
OVER A VOLCANO
Many-voiced GrowI of Vast Gatherings of the
People, Now Permitted by Trepoff, Makes
the Bureaucracy TrembIe.

gars description. In the great open
Pickering candies on a hastily con-
structed tribune, from 1000 to 5000
workmen, students and professional
men, stood wedged together in the cold
and wet snow fall. listening to revo-
lutionary harangues. Another great
meeting was held in the central hall
of the university, and scores of other
meetings of trades and professions
were held in the other rooms of. the
buildings. Halls were set aside for
teachers, physicians. bank clerks
journalists. printers, chinovniks, phar-
macists, women, engineers, lawyers
tailors and persons of other callings
and trades. and a room was even sci
aside for non-commiSsioned officers OF
the army, but only a half dozen OF
these were present.
Strike! Strike! They Roar.
In all the sections Il strong minority
urged conservatism; but these were
carried from their feet by the general
enthusiasm. and resolutions for a gen.
eral strike in every branch of social
activity were adopted with a hurrah
Even the c,iinovniks in the Govern
ment service whose meeting was large
ly attended, were possessed of the
same spirit and passed resolutions to
stop all work in the Government de-
partments tomorrow. This probably
will include the government telegraph
agency and may put the telegraph and
cable service out of commission.
During the afternoon reinforcementa
of troops kept pouring into the city.
The yellow cuirassiers, hussars and
the Omsk regiment have arrived here
from TsarskoeSelo and 5000 soldiers
are coming by water from Reval.
Several trains with military escorts
have forced their passage from Mos
COW, but the railroad tie-up is prac-
tically as tight as on yesterday. The
governments railroad battalions are
now exhausted. The last were sent to
Moscow and Syzeran last night.
Reports of Mutiny.
The most alarming reports are cir
culating about affairs in the South OF
Russia. Private reports received here
are said to confirm the stories OF
mutiny on board the battleship Cath
arine III and the destruction by incen
diaries of the battleship PateliemOn
formerly the KniaZ Potemkine, but the
authorities do not confirm the rumors
and kilograms of inquiry remain un-
answered.
In the interior of Russia the people
have neither mail nor newspapers and
are the prey to the widest stories Of
what is occurring. This is considered
to be q bad side of the situation, as
it is feared it may lead to peasant up
risings which in the absence of troops
might result in frightful excuses
In some towns a reign of terror
is reported to exist. At Minsk, the
people have shut up their houses the
governor having warned them not 70
venture in the streets at the peril of
their lives.
The Last INK Broken.
The last link of the railroads bind
ing capital with the outer world was
broken late at night when the Finland
Railroad suspended service between
st. Petersburg and the Finnish border
Telegraphic communication is still
open but there is a possibility that
the cable operators may be compelled
to join a general strike of telegraphers
today Up to the present there is q
total absence of disorder.