The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-07-27
OUTBREAK IS POSTPONED
RUSSIAN WoRkMEN URGED Tc
DEFER CALL FOR STRIKE.
EMBARGO ON PRESS DISPATCHES
Government Determined Not to Let T.
Be Known What Is Happening
Throughout Russa--ConrilNon No
Ripe for General Revolt.

DO known what ls Happening
Throughout Russla--condiAon No
Ripe for General Revolt.
st. Petersburg. July 26.-Though II
Is difficult to obtain IA true picture OF
the conditions in the interior, owing
to the embargo that has been put
upon press dispatches, all indications
point more and more to the postpone
ment OF the threatened general strike
until the government shall be less anc
the country more prepared for such
an event, until the harvest Is finished
and the revolutionary movement do
velops spontaneously among the idl,
peasantry.
What news has been received from
the provinces indicates that conditions
are scarcely ripe, except in the famine
districts for an upheaval The STRAIT
egists of the revolutionary council are
laboring with the hotheads to induce
them to defer tho call for a general
strike until 1t can come as supple
ment to the movement already under
way. A definite decision will be
reached within a day or two in the re
organized council OF workmen,
The remnant of the constitutional
democratic deputies, many Of whom
after having collected the arrears OF
salary and mileage due them, hava
started homeward, are caucusing In
dustriously, but their importance has
gone, neither the government nor tho
revolutlonists paying much attention
to the former dominant party in the
lower house OF parliament The gov
ernment, indeed, has not abandoned
its efforts to enlist moderates in the
cabinet. Prof. Mou omtseff, the presi
dent of the dissolved house, for whom
Premier Stolpyin was vainly search
ing with an invitation to go to Peter
hof while the former was presiding
over the outlaw parliament at Viborg
was again approached, but there is not
the slightest prospect that he can be
swayed, even by imperial command
to take Office.
The most urgent problem before tho
government, In case an immediate
outbreak is postponed, is the reliei
of the distress in the interior. Tho
cabinet meeting was devoted to con
sideration of this subject, and 1t was
voted to extend relief works in the
famine districts. A commission was
appointed to decide where the budget
could best Oe cut to find the $500, 600
voted by parliament for famine relief,
II will be necessary also to provide
moro cash for the settlement of claims
for damages to estates during the
peasant excesses, the commission for
Yekaterinoslav province alone do.
manding $150.000 in addition to the
$3.50. 900 already expended. but this 10
capable of being deferred.
Premier Stolypin announced to the
council OF the empire that he had OBJ
tanned from Emperor Nicholas special
powers for Admiral Skrydloff in re.
storing and maintaining order and dis.
cipline in the Black sea feet The
admiral, who departed for SebastopoL
told the Associated Press that his first
task would be to investigate the ar.
rests of sailors of the fleet and lib
crate those who were unjustly sent to
prison.
The Rech says that the recovery on
the bourse was due to loan of $3.50,
100000 by the Mendelsohns to sus'
tain prices.