Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-30
SITUATION ALARMING c
st. Petersburg Still Shut Off
by Telegraph
FROM INTERIOR TOWNS
MOST DISaUIETING REPORTS ARE
CIRCULATED.
Telling of Disaffection of the Guard
Regiments-Nothing Official About
the Sevastopol Battle.

ST. PETERSBURG. November 80, 2:15
p.m.--The situation is very alarming. Rus
sia is a complete blank so far as direct
news is concerned. All te,egraphic corlmuni-
cation with the interior has ceased. The
worlmen's council has decreed that the
general post Office in ST. Petersburg shall
close at o'clock this afternoon, when COM
munication with the outside world may
cease.
The most disquieting reports are in circu-
lation regarding the disaffection of the
guard regiments, two of which, the work
men boast have definitely resolved not to
fire on the people.
The government still manages, with the
aid of the admins trative officers along the
line, to keep communication open with Sc
vastopo1. The manager of the Moscow Of
flee is himself working at a key there. The
contents of the cipher dispatches received
by the emperor from Vice Admiral Biriloff
minister of marine. however, are carefully
guarded.
Public in the Dark
The navy department is closed not only
to the public but TO the officers. except of
those of the general staff No official state
rnent the subject of the battle at Sevas-
topoi yesterday has been issued. and the
public remains in the dark, compelled to be
content with the countless rumors which
are IN circulation. Ii is reported from a
semi official source that although the Otch-
akoff the Dnieper and transport were
set on fire and sunk during yesterdays bat
tie, all the mUtineerS have not Yet Surren-
dercd.
Vice Admiral Chouknin was in command
OF the loyal vessels, some of which, in
Guiding the Palietomon, participated in the
engagement. Gen. Baron Meller Gakomel-
skie, commander of the 18th Army Corps.
with 21,G00 infantry and artillery was in
chief command ashore
The newspaper accounts of the details of
the lighting at Seyastopol. which are based
on the reports circulating in the city. are
very conflicting, but they all say the battle
ended at about $50 yesterday afternoon,
when the ships of the mutineers surren-
dered. The Novosu says that 5000 men
mutineers, it Is added, have already been
executed. Two battleships have been
blown UP.
Conditions at Warsaw.
WARSAW, November 30-The deadlock
in the postal and telegraph services be-
tween Warsaw and the interior of Russia
is practically complete The latest infor-
nation from Moscow is that the soldiers
of the telegraph battalion have refused to
fill the places of the striking telegraph
operators
The greatest anxiety prevails here where
1t is feared that a general strike involving
the whole of Russian Poland may break
out at any moment. The arrests of num-
bers of prominent persons and their exile
without trial continue.
Sevastopol Details at Warsaw.
According to the few details which have
reached Warsaw regarding the sea and
land battle at Sevastopol the rebel fleet in
the evening of November 2S opened an at
tack on three loyal warships. the battle
ship Rostislav, the torpedo gunboat Captain
Sacken and the armored cruiser Pamyat
Azova. ~
The latter replied briskly, damaging the
rebel torpedo boat destroyer Svirepy and
sinking a torpedo boat. The coast batteries
also Joined in and set fire to the cruiser
Otchakoff, commanded by the rebel lead
er, Lieut.. Schmidt.
The latter, with his mutinous followers
tried to escape in boats, but were captured
by loyal torpedo boats. At the same time
the Bielostok regiment attacked the bar
racks occupied by the mutineers. Fifteen
hundred of these, with ten Maxim guns
surrendered during the night. The number
Of killed and wounded is not known.
Situation at Odessa.
LONDON. November 3O.-Private advices
received in London from Odessa tell of
most interesting situation there. While
there Is no disturbance at Odessa, the in
habitants are in dread of the arrival of one
or more of the mutinous warships from
Sebastopcl and are preparing to flee on
sighting those vessels.
AS to the actual happenings at Sebastopol
the people of Odessa are ignorant, but ru-
mors of al kinds are afloat. The English
employees of the British telegraph Office re-
main at their keys, but as there is no way
OF delivering the kilograms received and
people are not permitted to approach the
telegraph office to send dispatches, the oper-
ators have nothing to do.
All the Russian employees of the post Of
flee in which the British telegraphers are
accommodated, are strike and the build
ing is surrounded by troops. The foreign
operators pass between the Office and their
homes unmolested, but the Russian admin
istration declines to receive or deliver teIe-
grams.