Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-11-30
RUSSIAN SITUATION
EXCEEDINGLY CRAVE
Telegraphers Have Declared an
International Strike.
ST. PETERSBURG is CUT OFF

the. .Dark-Workmen's Council May
Order Another General Strike-No
News from Sebastopol.
st. Petersburg, Nov. 29.-The situa
ton has again suddenly grown exceed
ingly grave. The Russian capital is
shut off from Geographic communica-
ton with the interior. The Pan-Rus
sian strike OF the telegraph operators
declared yesterday has gone into op-
GRAFTON and the workmen's council is
celebrating whether to declare a gen
eral political strike throughout Rus
sia tomorrow, predicting this time the
alleged unwarranted arre& of the
members of the peasants congress at
Moscow and also calling on the people
to compel the employers of st. Peters
burg who locked out 10000 men to
open their doors.
The telegraph strike draws an i'm
penetrable curtain between the capital
and the provinces which in sucl a cri-
sis renders the position of the gov
ernment most desperate as being in
instant and constant toucn with the
military and local authorities in tle.
interior is imperative If the tele-
graph strike can be maintained the
government will be compelled to grope
blindly in the dark.
The employees of tne offices have not
yet struck, but they are expected to-
walk out today. Only two lines are
working out of st. Petersburg. Tele-
phonic messages from Moscow which
are momentarily expected to stop, say
that the operators on the Siberian lines
and on all lines south, north and east
of Moscow have struck.
Communication with Sebastopol and
Odessa has ceased. The operators on
the lines throughout the Baltic prov
inces have also struck
The Telegraphers' strike is the di,
rect outgroWth of tle governments
circular prohibiting the telegraph op
orators from joining union which pro
hibiti0n is attributed to M. Durnoyo,
minister of the interior, for whose re-
movaI from office the radicalx are Wig
orously working The minister re
Gently summarily discharged the lead
ers of the Moscow union and yesterday
their colleagues sent a twelve hour ul
timatum to NJ Durnoyo and Premier
Witte demand the reinstatement OF
the dismissed men and the withdrawal
of the obnoxious. circular. No answer
being forthcoming at the specified timeI
the strike was declared.
The telegraphers of Moscow after
leaving their keys held a meeting in
an adjoining building and upon the ap
pearance of the police and the troops
sent to break up the meeting they de
clared they would not disperse even
if the authorities used force
SebastopOl being cut off from tele
graphic communication with the CAPT
tai, it is not known mere whether the
mutineers have surrendered or wneth
er General Neputueff, the commander
of the fortress began active operations
against them today
The last dispatches which came
through announced that Sebastopol
was practically deserted except for
the troops. The scared population
have fed in all directions, and Balak
lava and neighboring towns were filled
with refugees. The streets of Sebas
topoI was reported as being flooded
with incoming troops and artillery and
machine guns had been placed so as toI
command Admiralty Point, the strong
hold of the mutineers, while the guns
of fort Constant have been trained or
the sailors barracks. General Nep
tueff and the other military officers
according to t1e advices, were consult |
ing with the view to working out al
plan to take the mutineers by siege
and without bloodshed, if possible. Nol
further statement was made regarding
the attitude of the Black Sea fleet.