The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-29
st. Petersburg Cut Off From
Interior Communication.
Telegraph Operators Strike
Throughout the Umpire.
/ GENERAL TIE UP.
is Being Discussed by the Work
mems Council.
The Situation Of the Govern.
ment Is Growing Desperate.

st. Petersburg. Nov. 2s.-12.1O p. M
The situation has again suddenly grown
exceedingly grave. The Russian capital
Is sls1t or from telegraph communication
with the interior. The Pan Russian
strike Of telegraph operators declared
yesterday has gone into operation and
the Workmen's council is celebrating
whether to declare a general political
strike throughout Russia tomorrow,
predicating this action upon the alleged
uuwarranted arrest OF the members Of
the peasants congress at Moscow and
also sailing on the people to compel the
employers at St Petersburg who locked
out 10000 men to open their doors.
The telegraph strike draws an impen-
etrable curtain between the capital and
the provinces which in such a crisis rem
ders the position Of the government al
most desperate as being In constant
touch with the military and local au-
thorities in the interior is imperative If
The telegraph strike can be maintained
the government would be compelled to
grope blindly in the dark The employees
OF the office here have not yet struck
but they are expected to walk out today.
Only two lines are working out of St.
Petersburg.
Telephone messages from Moscow
which are momentarily expected to stop,
say that the operators on the Siberian
lines and on all the lines south, north
and east OF Moscow have struck. Com
munication with Sebastopol and Odessa
has ceased. The operators on the lines
throughout the Baltic provinces have
also struck.
The telegraphers' strike IS the d.
rect outgrowth Of the governments cir
cular prohibiting telegraph operators
from Joining a union which prohibition
j. attributed to n. Dunovo. minister Of
rrssT ~
nee the radicals are vigorously work
ing.
The minister recently summary dis
charged the leaders Of the Moscow IN
ion and yesterday their colleagues sent
y hour ultimatum to N. Dunovo and
Premier White. demanding the rein
statement Of the dismissed men and the
Withdrawal of the obnoxious circular.
No answer being forthcoming at this
specified time the strike was declared.
The telegraphers Of Moscow after Ieav-
ing their keys held a meeting in an adj
joining building and upon the appear
ance Of the police and troops sent to
break up the meeting they declared
firmly that they would not disperse
even if the authorities used force.
SebastopOl Deserted.
Sebastopol being cut of from tele-
graph communication with the capital
il Is not known here whether the mutt
neers have surrendered or whether Gen
Nepteu6, the commander of the fortress
began active operations against them
today. The last dispatch which came
through announced that Sebastopol was
practically deserted except for the
troops. The scared population have
fed in all directions and Balalzlava and
neighboring towns were filed with ref
uEees. The streets of SebastopOl were
reported as being flooded with incoming
troops and artillery and machine guns
have been placed so as to command Ad-
miralty Point, the stronghold of the
snutineers while the guns OF Fort Con-
Gtartine had been trained on the sail
ors' barracks. General Neptuehf and
the other military officers ACCORDING to
auViceS were consulting with a view to
working out a plan to take the mutnf-
GERS BY siege, without bloodshed il pos
sibls.
No further statement was made re
garding the attitude Of the Black sea
feet.
A dispatch to the Novoe vremya says
not more than a thousand sailors are
now supporting the leaders Of the
nutiny who number a hundred. The dis
patch also says that there are only 40C
rides in the sailors barrack and thai
only Few cartridges are available. The
slave which is supporting County Wltte
has been exceedingly pessimistfc. Il
says revolution constitutes a double
danger as every success Of the revolU-
donlsts enable the reaetiOnists to poini
out the danger OF continuing the reform
Program while every turn of the whee
backwards stimulates the revolutionist.
20 make new attacks on the govern
u1eut"
The editor of the new pictorial satirf
cal paper Poulemet who was arrested
November ~ has been released. Writins
his experiences he says he was arrested
at O'Clock in the morning, that hi.
apartments were rifled and that he was
held for two days in prison in violation
OF the inviolability Of person guaranteed
By the imperial manifesto. The publ,
prosecutor, however, found that the edf
ker had not committed any crime ant
~ Durnovo was compelled to order hi
liberation. yet this is called the new
regime. p says the editor. In conclusion.
Line TO Berlin Interrupted.
Berlin. Nov. 2S.-5:25 o. nth
imperial postofice announces that al
telegraph communication with Russi
has been Interrupted since noon.
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