Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-03
ENTIRELY SEVERED
st. Petersburg Still Isolated
From All Quarters
BY TELEGRAPH CUTOFF
WARSAW THE ONLY POINT OPEN
TO THE WORLD
For Any News From the Russian EN-
pire - What the Telegraphers
Demand-Strike Diminishing.

LONDON, December ZIP to midnight
London, Berlin. Copenhagen, Paris and
Stockholm were completely cut off from
telegraphic communication with st. Peters
burg.
Early this afternoon the Great Northern
Telegraph Company which has two routes
into St. Petersburg, one by way of Copen-
hagen and Libau and the other by way of
Finland announced that communication
was completely severed. Copenhagen and
Nystad the last named on the western
Finnish coast, being the most easterly
points from which and to which 1t could
accept messages. The Great Northern
company further stated that the quickest
means for reaching east Finnish coast
points was by cable to Nystad and thence
by letter TO Helsingfors other points
The Associated Press is endeavoring to
get into communication with the capital
from Hesingfors, the nearest point to ST.
Petersburg, but finds that route impossible
by wire, and there is some doubt whether
the water is sufficiently free from ice to
permit boats crossing to Helsngfors from
Russian ports
The Associated Press and the Reuter-
Telegram Company, well as the Eng
lISh newspapers have sent urgent dis
patches to their correspondents all over
Russia, and especially at frontier points,
the interior; but none of the cable COM
panies in London had received a word up
to midnight. Furthermore the companies
are unable to say what prospects there are
for renewal of communication.
Warsaw is the only point from which
any Russian news has been received since
early this morning and this, with the ex
ception of private message over the rail-
read line briefly speaking of conf1ag gra-
ton at Moscow, was practically confined to
events at Warsaw and Lodz.
Many Railway Telegraph Couriers.
BERLIN, December "A correspondent
of the Lokal Anzeiger reports from Kieff,
by way of Podwlooczyska Con the Austrian
frontier in Galica) that the Russian Of
ficials communicate with ST. Petersburg by
the railway telegraph couriers.
Two hundred postal and telegraph dele
gates have assemhued at Moscow, the cor
respondent adds, and demand the recog-
milton of the old Russian League of Post
and Telegraph officials the removal of NJ.
Durnoyo, acting minister of the interior;
the freedom of the assembled delegates and
the reappOintncnt of dismissed officials
The Tageblatts Kieff correspondent an
nounces that the strike is diminishing
Acting Minister of the Interior Durnuvo he
says. is supported by the reactionists and
his dismissal has been postponed as the
government will not make advances to the
strikers.
Great Fire Raging at Warsaw.
WARSAW, Russian Poland, December
,. 1859 p.m.-A Russian telegraph operator
at Moscow says that great incendiary
confla graft is raging there.
The striking telegraph operators threaten
in case reprisals are made against them, to
destroy the government lines
Owing to the aEollshment of martial law
many political offenders have been released.
Coal Famine Threatened.
LODI, Russian Poland. December "a
coal famine is threa tened and the factories
here may be forced to suspend operations
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