Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-30

ed refugees.
There are persistent rumors in c!rcula-
ton here today that the crews of the YES
sells composing the Black sea fleet mutinied
on arriving at Samsun. on tie coast OF
Asia Minor killed Admira!s Brief and
Chouknin and sailed back to Sevastopol,
after hoisting the revolutionary flag.
1t Is impossible to verify the rumors. The
authorities are confsoating all ro,iticIl
kilograms
Excitement at Warsaw.
WARSAW, Russian Poland October 81
(noon.-The excitement in tie street shows
no signs of abating. Every now and then
the crowds overturn q street car, with the
object of stopping traffic, but no serious
conflicts have thus far occurred The 20
lice are trying TO induce the shopke epers to
reopen their shops. threatening to fine them
If they do not do so but the merchants are
between two fires since the soc a.ists prom
Use to smash Their windows If the shutters
are taken down.
A telegram received here from Moscow
says the strikers have destroyed the belt
railroad and two houses on TwerSka street,
one of them belonging to the governor.
Thousan nds of wealthy inha bitants of Mos
COW are leaving the city by any and every
means available. The military telegraph
operators are complaining of having to
operate the commercial service. They de-
clare they are too tired to perform the
work
Telegraphic communication between War
saw and Wilma has been severed.
Situation Worse at Lodz.
LODI, Russian Poland, October 30.-The
situation here grows worse hourly. The in
fantry, when ordered to fire on the people,
are discharging their rifles in the air. The
shops are closed. and those whose owners
refuse to shut up are destroyed. Crowds
are busily tearing down Russian flags which
were displayed by order Of the police.
Bands of peasants in the government OF
Suwalki are destroying the government al
cohol stores.
People Ominously Silent.
PARIS October Accommodation be-
tween ST. Petersburg and Paris remains un-
interrupted. The streets of the Russian
capital are filled with soldiers, and the peo-
pie maintain an luminous silence, but no
serious disorders are mentioned in the
meager reports received here. There is
no confirma ton of the London Daily Tele-
graphs statement that Emperor Nicholas
has accepted the liberal program, which
gives legislative powers to the proposed
national assembly.
dispatch to the Journal from st. Peters,
burg quotes a parsonage of the court as
saying that a constitution will be promul-
gated november y, anu QuOleS dholhoi
f,inctionary of the court saying that the
law providing for liberty of the press,
which is about to appear, gives little real
relief. The functionary added that Count
Witte is about to be clothed with extreme
power to meet the situation.
The telephone girls at st. petersburg have
ioined the strikers and soldiers are replac-
ing them. but the latter are attending chief
ly to official calls. Many of the theaters
are closed. the actors being among the
strikers.
A dispatch to the Petit Parisien from st.
Petersburg says the managers of the news
Novoe Vremya, which has become anti
governmental.
BERLIN, October 30. AS p.r1.-The tele-
graph has been working all the morning
with St Petersburg and the principal cities
hours was entirely cut of from telegraphlc
connection.
The telegraph offices are twelve and four
teen hours behind with their work because
of the extraordinary quantities of dispatches
being exchanged between the governments
and their representatives at St Petersburg
the masses of press kilograms and the
large amount of commercial business due
to the desire of business connections In
Russia to arrange for the future. Occa-
sionally a line goes down, but it Is restored
Offering kilograms are informed that they
can only be accepted without responsibility
for delivery and subject to indefinite delay.
COPENHAGEN. October 30.-The Russian
minister. M Iswolsky, started by steamer
for ST. Petersburg today. The legation Off
cials say he is going to the capital on pri-
vate business.