Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-12-01
IS GOING FROM
BAD TO WORSE
Part Of the Russian Army is Now in
Open Revolt, as Well as the
Navy.
THE STRIKE BECOMES GENERAL
TeIeoraphers Quit, and communiea.
tion With the Provinces 10 Shut
Off-The Outlook Dark.

ceedingly grave. The Russian capital
is smut of from telegraphic commun-
ication with the interior. The Pan
Russian strike of telegraph operators
began yesterday and the workmen's
council is deliberating whether to de.
clare a general political strike through.
out Russia tomorrow, predicated this
time on the alleged unwarranted ar.
rest of members of the peasants con.
gress at Moscow and also calling on
the people to compel the employers
at st. Petersburg who locked out TO-
600 men to open their doors.
The telegraph strike draws an i'm
penetrable curtain between the CAPT.
tai and the provinces, which in such
crisis renders the position of the
government almost desperate. as be-
ing in incessant and constant touch
with the military and local authorities
In the interior is imperative. If the
telegraph strike can maintain the gov
ernment will be compelled to grOpe
blindly in the dark. The employees of
the office here have not yet struck,
but they are expected to walk out to-
day. Only two lines are working out
OF st. Petersburg. Telephone mes
sages from Moscow, which are momen-
tarily expected to stop, say that the
operators on the Siberian lines and on
all the lines south, north and east of
Moscow have struck. Communication
with SebastOpOl and Odessa has ceas-
ed. the operators on the lines
throughout the Baltic provinces also
have struck.
The Cause Of It.
The telegraphers' strike is the direct
cutgrowth of the governments circu-
Lar prohibiting telegraph operators
from joining union, which prohibi-
ton is attributed to NJ. Durnovo. min
lister Of the interior. for whose remov-
al from office the radicals are vigor-
Gus working. The minister recently
snmmarily discharged the leaders of
the Moscow union and yesterday their
colleagues sent twelve hour ultimat-
um to Durnovo for the reinstatement
OF the dismissed men and the with
drawal of the obnoxious circular No
answer being forthcoming at the spec.
ified time, the strike was declared.
The telegraphers of Moscow after leav-
ing their keys had a meeting in an ad-
joining building and upon the appear
arce of the police and the troops sent
to break up the meeting they declar.
ed firmly that they would not disperse
even If the authorities used force.
Mutiny Of the Troops.
SebastOpol being cut on from tele.
&. aphic communication with the cap.
ital, it is not known here whether
the mutineers AVE surrendered or
whether General Neptuff, the com.
nander of the fortress, began active
operations against them today. The
last dispatch which came through an.
Eounced that Sebastopol was practi.
cally deserted except for the troops.
The scared population have fed in all
directions and Balkava and neighbor.
ing towns were filled with refugees.
the streets of Sebastopol were report.
ed as being flooded with incoming
troops and artillery and machine guns
had been placed so as to command
Admiralty Point, the stronghold of the
mutineers. while the guns of Fort
Constantine had been trained on the
sailors barracks. General Neptueff
and the other military officers accord
ing to the advices. were consulting
with the view to working out plan
to take the mutineers by siege and
without bloOdsned If possible. No fur.
tber statement was made regarding
the attitude Of the Black sea fleet. A
dispatch to the Novoe Vremya says
that not more than thousand sailors
are now supporting the leaders of the
mutiny which number a hundred. The
dispatch also says that there are only
400 rifles in the sailors barracks and
that only few cartridges are avail.