New-York tribune., 1905-10-26
ALL RUSSIA In REBELLION.
factories the banks OF the Neva struck this

factories on the banks OF the Neva struck this
afternoon.
Men and women are moving about the Streets
but are orderly, the leaders enjonng quiet.
The street cars in several districts have
stopped. In the Narva district, where the rough
est working element congregates. the situation
is considered alarming
The Emperor at PeterhOf is cut off from rail-
road communication with the capital.
A special meeting of the Committee of Minis
ters was held late this afternoon under the
presidency of Count Witte to consider the strike
situation. M Manukhin. Minister of Justice
who went to Peterhof this morning to report to
tbe Emperor. could not return by train and
drove back in a carriage through drenching
rain to be present at the meeting.
There was considerable excitement to-day at
all the railroad stations, which are IN possess
sion of the troops Not train departed The
railroad battalions called out, and an at
tempt will be made to man train TO Mosco"
and the frontier Tomorrow.
Great crowds assembled at the Moscow sta
ton and gendasmes interfered twice to restore
order. but there was bloodshed.
The leaders of the strikers on the Mosco"
and Warsaw lines have planned big meeting
for October 27.
This afternoons reports showed enormous
extension of the strike. All the Poland lines are
tied up, and a strike has begun on the great
Southwestern system, covering the territory
southwark from K Jeff toward Odessa.
Trains in the Baltic provinces are not running,
and the situation is reported extremely serious
at Riga and Libau.
In addition to the strike of the worknen Of
the Obukhofr. Putilof. Nevsld. Alexandrovski
and Kolpino works. all the employees of the fac
tories on the Schliisselburg Road walked out to-
day in sympathy with the railroad strikers.
The price of food is increasing. Meat in the
markets Is one-third higher than yesterday.
The people are becoming alarmed.
The postofylce refuses to accept registered let
ters parcels or money for transmission abroad.
The radical papers are in open sympathy with
the strikers. The "Nasha Slisn has been con-
fiscated
Hospital trains having on board five hundred
sick and wounded soldiers from Manchuria are
held ND near Moscow The condition Of the men
is said to be pitiable.
There are four hundred thousand railway en-
ployes in the empire and their average wage is
S140 year.
The British Ambassador Sir Charles Har-
dinRe,
Yesterday previous to leaving St Petersburg on
a rnisson In connection with the proposed
Anglo Russian understanding. was unable to
start for England this morning because
trains we're running He left the capital this
afternoon, going to Finland, and thence to
Sweden
Telegraphic communication between ST
Petersburg and Kharkoff is broken.
The Social Democrats believe they have the
government at their mercy. with the rail-
roads stopped, the authorities are poweress to
transport troops.
The strength displayed by the Social Demo
Gratis has amazed the authorities. who
taken much by surprise as they were at the
time of the "Gapon rebellion"
The distress in the central provinces is great
ly increased by the enforced suspension Of the
famine relief work.
Some of the revolutionary leaders hero say
the present strike is simply a test of strength
as a prelude to complete strike Of all the
Social eroups.