Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-27
the meetings II opinions are uttered which
are supposed to threaten public order
Situation Elsewhere Not Improved.

The news from the interior Is meager The
situation has not improved. According TO
reliable reports the troops at kharkoff sided
with the students and strikers. In many
places the schools are closed. The high
school girls of Pskoff walked out this MORN
ing.
The Russ. now the leading organ of the
constitutional party, declares that Count
Whites accession to power will not satisfy
the people unless he comes forward with
program which will meet the wants of the
nation. Only absolutely solid guarantees
for the future. the paper declares, can now
avail to reassure the people that the past
will not repeat itself
City in a Semi-Panic State.
During the afternoon the widest rumors
spread and the city was seized with "a
semi-panic. The students began to con-
gregate at the university in the Vassili
Ostrov district. announcing that they in
tended to hold the building, as the students
Of Kharkoff held their university against
the military, and to hold big meeting to-
night. to whichworkmen of all the social
groups are invited.
Warnings having been issued last night
that the government would not permit revo-
lutionary meetings at the universities and
higher schools under the guise of student
assemblies. General Trepoff dispatched
troops to surround the building, and trouble
Is momentarily feared. To add to the
alarm, the strikers have succeeded in stop
ping the machinery of the electric light
plant, and the city is plunged in darkness.
Troops Pouring Into the City.
Reinforcements of troops are pouring into
the city. The yellow cuirassiers, hussars
and the Omsk Regiment have arrived here
from Tsarskoe-Selo and 5000 soldiers are
coming by water from Reval
Several trains with military escorts have
forced their passage from Moscow but the
railroad tie-up is practically as tight as on
yesterday. The governments railroad bat
tallons are now exhausted. The last were
sent to Moscow and Syzeran last night
The most alarming reports circulating
about affairs in the south of Russia
Private reports received here are said to
confirm the stories of the mutiny on board
the battleship Catharine II and the destruc-
ton by incendiaries of the battleship Pate
lemon. 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 oc-
curing. This is considered to be a bad
side of the situation, as it Is feared 1t may
lead, to peasant uprisings which, in the alb
sence of troops might result In frightful ex-
cesseS.
In some towns a reign of terror is report-
ed to exist. AT Minsk the people have shut
up their houses, the governor having warned
them not to venture in the streets at the
pearl of their lives
Strike in Full Swing at Warsaw,
WARSAW, Russian Poland, October 81
Telegraphic communication between War
saw and st. Petersburg, Moscow and Ber-
lin was severed today in consequence of
a fire In the telegraph Office caused by the
fusing of electric wires
The strike is in full swing at the fac
tories here. and the agitators are urging
the employees of the banks and insurance
and commercial houses to leave their work
The shops are still open. The workmen
are holding big meetings without interfer-
ence on the part of the police.
THORN, Prussia, October PA message
from reliable source in Warsaw received
here today says that an incendiary fire
which started there last night has not been
extinguished, and that one part of the city
Is in flames.
LODI, Russian Poland October 81
The employees of all the local factories.
street car lines and the suburban railroads
have struck.
Regard Situation Alarming
PARIS, October 27-OficiaI dispatches
continue to arrive here uninterruptedly
from St Petersburg. They show the gen
eral condition of the agitation, leading the
authorities here to regard the situation as
alarming. Unofficial quarters and the news
papers discuss the Russian situation as
verging on a revolution.
Travel Into Russia Discontinued,
BERLIN, October 27.-Railway communi-
cation beyond the Russian frontier is now
i,oI,
rived at the boundary stations yesterday are
and many travellers bound for
Russia are stopping at hotels here The
Prussian railway authorities are unable to
say when communication is likely to be re-
stored.
A Russian who was determined to get to
Moscow left Berlin by train for Memel last
night. Thence he designed to proceed on
horseback along the coast to Polangen and
Libau and then make an overland journey
to Moscow. Other travellers are gong by
sea to Riga or Libau or are taking coasting
steamers for Stettin..
Telegraphic communication with Warsaw
and other points was interrupted during the
night, but the wires are working this morn
ing Telegraphic communication with st.
Petersburg has never been entirely inter
rupted, though some of the lines have been
down. Business on the tele-
graph lines has doubled and extra operators
dinary volume of press dispatches double
the usual number of commercial and per-
sonal kilograms appear to have been ham
died.
The German telegraph lines also han
ding Austrian kilograms for Russia, as the
lines beyond Lemberg are not working The
telegraph lines In the interior of Russia
seem to be cut.
Trouble Feared Tonight.
ODESSA, October 27.-The university
building is surrounded by cossacks and po-
lice to prevent meeting of 5000 students
announced to be held tonight. The stu
dents, notwithstanding the presence of the
armed force, are, the dispatch Is fled
gathering in the neighborhood of the uni
versity. serious conflict is feared.
PATRICK MUST HANG.
Court Denied Motion for Reargument
of Appeal.