The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-08-03
BIG STRIKE IS DECLARED
RUSSIAN REVoLUTloNlsTs TIE
UP CITY TOMORROW.
ARE uNDAuNTED AT RgveRsEs

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Leaders Declare Flame OF Revolt viii
Spread to Corners OF Czar's Empire.
Strike is Formally Announced to Be-
gin Tomorrow at Noon.
st. Petersburg, Aug. 3.-A general
strike was today formally declared In
ST. Petersburg by the revolutonsts.
The strike will begin in this city at
noon tomorrow.
st. Petersburg, Aug. 3.-Although
the mutinies at Sveaborg have been
ended and the one at Cronstadt has
been practically put down, the out
look is still black. The revolutionists,
whose hands were suddenly forced by
the premature rising at Svoaborg. ap
| parently are undaunted at these initial
reverses, and intend to persist in their
program of calling a general strike on
Sunday or Monday.
One of the leaders of the revolution.
lists with whom the Associated Press
spoke last night boasted that the word
had gone forth and that the fire OF
revolt would spread to the corners OF
the empire. His closing words to the
correspondent were: Now watch Re
val, Riga and Libau."
The news OF the mutiny on board
the cruiser Pamyat Azova, off the
Esthonian coast, is fraught with enor'
nous possibilities. The crew of this
vessel rose and killed the commander
and four officers.
Ambassador Meyer has received a
dispatch from the American consul at
Reval saying that the Pamyat Azova
entered that port with the red flag at
her masthead Should this cruiser,
under the flag of the mutineers, sail
to the northwaFd and appear in the
presence OF the main squadron in the
Gulf of Finland, the loyalty of the
crews of these vessels would perhaps
be put to a stronger test than they
could stand Although the admiralty
asserts that the squadron off Sveaborg
| did not waver in its allegiance, there
is something mysterious about the re
ports of the actions of the ships which
warrants the suspicion that all is not
right aboard. Only two ships fired on
the mutineers, the others remaining on
the horizon as if the admiral were not
sure that they could be depended
upon. The mutiny on the Pamvat
Azova may possibly raise international
complications. as in the eye of the
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temkine in the Black sea in the sum.
mer of 1905, Is pirate. There is
reason to believe that the German
fleet has orders covering just such a
contingency as this. and that It would
not hesitate to put an end to the rene.
gade cruiser as a danger to commerce.
When the firing began at Cronstadt
there ensued wild panic in the i'm
perial palace at Peterhof, as the pal.
ace lies under the guns Of the for
tress. All preparations had been
made in advance TO fee to Tsarkoe Sc.
loe, but the report that the czar and
his family had fled in the middle OF
the night was denied. It was ex.
planned that on account OF "dampness"
at Peterhof arrangements had been
made for the return of the imperial
family to Tsarkoe Seloe.
| Martial Law at Cronstadt.
Martial law was proclaimed at
Cronstadt during the day, and all day
long reinforcements have been land
| ing there from the mainland. No one
| is permitted on the island without a
| pass, and although the correspondent
| of the Associated Press was thus
| equipped, he was held up and
searched upon disembarking from a
rowboat The correspondent found
that there were about 1000 mutinous|
| sailors barricaded in their barracks,
which were surrounded by troops.
While passing the arsenal the ccr'
respondent heard ragged vOlley
| respondent heard ragged vollov
which he subsequently learned had cut
short the lives of six pioneers who
had been sentenced to death by drum
head courtmartial. 1t was declared
| that 300 sailors who had surrendered
during the night had been shot earlier
In the day but 1t was impossible t.
| obtain absolute confirmation OF this
statement.
On the heels OF the other bad news
comes the startling statement that the
emperor has fatty refused to accept
the conditions to which Premier Stoly-
pin agreed in his negotiations with
Count Heydon, Alexander Guchkoff,
Prince Nicholas Lvotf. Paul Vinogra-
dotf and Senator KIM for the reor-
ganization OF the cabinet. There is
an increasing apprehension that the
emperor proposes to take the nnal
step Of turning the country over to
the military dictatorship of Grand
Duke Nicholas. The streets OF St.
Petersburg again are filed with pa.
trolls.
General Markeraffsky Slain.
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