New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-30

row. The Council sent requests to both General
Trepof and the Minister of the Interior M.
Bouligin, not to arrest the members of the
deputation but the police, nevertheless took
them into custody. On urgent representations,
General Trepoff released them hour later.
The people are bordering on panic and are
easy victims of every sensational rumor. Among
countless baseless reports which received ere
dence to-day were that the Emperor had en-
barked on a vessel and fed to Denmark that
General Trepof had been killed by a bomb and
that Vice-Admiral Birileff had been assassinated
by mutineers in the Black Sea
With strike in the government postofice to-
night. communication with the interior practi-
cally ceased. Government troops were placed
in the telegraph office. but only few lines
working. Many lines, including the land lines
to the continent and to Libau, where they
meet with the cable. have been cut.
At 10 o'clock, however the cable by way of
Nystad and Sweden was still open This is now
the only thread connecting Russia with the
outer world. Admiral Durnovo. superintendent
of posts and telegraphs, told the representative
of a European power this afternoon that he
could not tell how long cable communication
with the Continent would last a-s---s-
The foreign embassies have discussed the sit
uation. but have as yet taken no steps regard
ing the safety of foreign residents. AS pre-
caution the State Department at Washington
has been requested to confer authority to char
ter vessel and to hoist ii the American
flag as refuge for Americans.
The negotiations for loan will be form
ally adjourned tomorrow. neither the gov
eminent nor the bankers are prepared to close
the negotiations while the present situation
tinues.
J. Pierpont Morgan, jr., and George W. Per-
kins are negotiating with the Hamburg-Amer-
lean Steamship Company for the dispatch of
vessel to take them off in case of necessity
The university and the Polytechnic Institute
were surrounded by troops who blocked all the
adjacent streets, and the students and professors
were kept within the confines of each institu-
ton.
Even the druggists have struck, and there are
many cases of sickness in the city; the army
been opened to fill prescriptions. At meeting
tonight the physicians divided the city into dis
tricts and selected stations where first aid to
the wounded will be given in case there should
he collisions between the troops and the people
Such news as comes from the interior shows
M commencement in the situation. The govern
ment everywhere seems poweress to break the
great political strike At Kharkof order was
restored only after the Governor had formally
instructed the troops not TO fire. and upon the
demands of the BLACK Heads" IT Revai the
soldiers were sent out of that city and the place
left In charge of a local militia. which had been
organized by the citizens
At Moscow the real Russian capital, accord
ing TO private reports. the Municipal Council
and the Committee of Public Safety are sitting
continuously struggle is momentariy ex-
nected between the League of Russian Pa
trfots" a reactionary organization led by the
nriests and the newly organized militia and
students The Moscow Municipal Council is also
,snorte6 10 have sent an ultmatum to the EN-
neror demanding the PRONUNCIATION of con-
stitution.
Although it is impossible officially to con-
firm these reports they seem to admit of no
doubt that the ant-government forces have the
upper hand.
The Government is no longer in communica-
ton with the forces in the Far East except by
cable by way of China
The situation cannot well he exaggerated
1,-;+, the nresent indecision of the Emperor, tho
,ernn,ent has neither head nor policy to
meet the crisis, and things seem TO De orllths
toward anarchy. The revoiutionists openly an
nounce that the government has ceased to exist,
,5 that nothing remains TO his majesty except
IN abdicate With firm hand at the helm
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