The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-26
RUSSIA CUT OFF.
Empire Is Isolated From the
Rest Of Europe.
All Glasses of Workmen Organ
izing Sympathetic Strikes.
CRISIS APPROACHES.
Either the Strikers VIII Be
Starved Into Submission
Or Pillage and Accompanying
BIOOdshed Must Follow.
FLEEING FROM HOME.
People Of st. Petersburg Are
Leaving by Boat.
Or Pillage and Accompanying
BIOOdshed Must Follow.
FLEEING FROM HOME.
People Of st. Petersburg Are
Leaving by Boat.
Those Remaining at Home Are
Afraid to Venture Out.

practically isolated today from the rest
of the continent of Europe as the in
ternationaI train service on all the lines
has virtually ceased. The tieup in the
interior is more complete than yester-
day The only trains running are OPP
Grated by the railway battalions.
The strike contagion is spreading. All
classes of rWorknen are organizing SYM
pathetic strikes and industrial life in
the country IS coming to a standstill.
The situation can not long continue.
Either the workmen will soon be starv-
ed into submission or pillage with mill
tary interference and bloodshed on a
large scale are bound to follow.
At Moscow 500 cabmen have already
fought the strikers whom they charge
with taking the bread out Of their
mouths. In many cities, especially at
Moscow, the question OF food is be-
coming extremely serious.
Collisions between troops and strikers
are reported to have occurred at several
places.
At Ekaterinoslav a regular pitched
battle between the soldiers and strikers
was fought and the city was left in
darkness. But as a rule the revolution
arye leaders are keeping their men in
hands e s1os ~
Whole Country Alarmed.
Communication by telegraph with
many interior points is interrupted. The
whole country is becoming alarmed and
in St Petersburg an incipient panic pre-
walls. The boats and the Finnish trains,
the only means of egrSss are crowded
with people fleeing abroad. The situa-
ton here has grown much worse over
night. The ranks of the 10000 1Vorklnen
from the mills and factories who joined
the strikers yesterday were increased
by 10000 more this morning. All the
employees of the port, 1000 in number
walked out and 1900 other men from
the steel works left work in q body.
The Inhabitants of St. Peters burg
awolze- to find the capital resembled a.
! belea guerede city. The shops in the
Vasiliostrov district and all the suburbs
are closed. windows are boarded and
barred and mounted patrols are to be
I seen everywhere in the streets. Except
| in the heart OF the city, women and
children are afraid to venture out.
Workmen are gathering at all the places
| frequented in the days of Father Gapon
| but they are quiet and the Cossacks
have had no Drovocation to interfere.
The general appearance of the town is
| menacing.
Food Prices Advanced.
| The prices of food have gone up and
/ the supply of beef is only sufficient for
| three days but there are ample sup
I plies OF wheasNandg rye for two months
The emperor and the court at Peterhof
are supplied by. a warship from St
/ Petersburg. All the families who can
afford it have fastened to lay in sup
plies and stand a siege. The suffering
falls the heaviest on the poor who live
from hand to mouth. All the bakers
sold out their bread before noon. The
meat dealers have been ordered by the
revolutionists not to deliver meat to the
troops under pain OF death and conse-
quently the soldiers are living on can
ned food. The butchers have notified
their patrons that the meat markets
will probably be closed tomorrow be-
cause of the lack OF meat. All the st.
Petersburg schools were closed today
and the children We're sent home with
/ instructions not to return until their
parents think it safe to do so.
+ The great strike promises to delay
\ and possibly interrupt the negotiations
for the new Russian loan. The interna-
tiona1 bankers who are here do not seem
greatly disturbed by the situation al
though they are constantly in receipt
Of threatening letters from the revolu-
tionists warning them that if they con-
tract a. loan without the consent of the
national assembly it will be repudiated.
Nevertheless they are not disposed to
close with the government until the sit
uation has cleared up The fact that
the strike may jeoDardize the success
of the loan is one of the most potent
levers behind the government and makes
the foreign bankers the unconscious
allies of the advocates of the far reach
ing reforms which are about to be pro-
mulgated.
Kniaz POtemlin Destroyed.
London, Oct ga dispatch to the
Evening Standard from odessa says il
is reported there from Sebastopo1 thai
the Russian battleship Palelion (form-
erly the XMAS Potemkin) has been de-
stroyed by incendiaries.
ATutiny at SebastopoI.
London, oct. "a special dispatch
from Odessa says it is reported that E
nutiny has occurred on the Russian
battleship Catherine H. at Sebastopo
and that 400 of her crew have been ar
rested.