PEOPLE LACK enthusiasm STRIKE LIKELY TO FAIL prom present ind cat one the russian government has the situation well in hand and will win out st petersburg with a general strike formally declared and the coun try apparently on the threshold 0 a gigantic struggle minor issues fade in the background if the strike inaus saturday gathers sufficient headway to endanger the life of the state it has virtually been decided that grand duke nicholas nicholaie Nicho lale will be named commander of all the troops la the empire where mar bial law exists which would be tan lamount to the decreeing of a military dictatorship it Is possible however that the government will not be daiv en to this extremity as the showing made by the st petersburg proletariat was not impressive although nearly 70 workmen are reported to be out many of the men appear to be entering the struggle with heavy hearts the spontaneity with which practically the entire nation ar rayed itself against the old regime last fall I 1 lacking the endurance of the people has been tapped by the long strain the sympathy of the more con lve liberals has been alienated by tear of revolution and the lowest elements of the population have been organized into what are kaohn as black hundreds and are ready to anter the fight on the side of the gov it the signal Is given