Show GREAT STRiKE HAS COLLAPSED Russia on With Outside W I LIMIT HAS BEEN REACHED I FURTHER AGITATION WILL NOT BE ALLOWED St Petersburg Dee U 1 o p lines with Mos Alos Moscow cow Rieff KIeft Nov gorod Archangel and Nuda are working to today a Many ot of the em cm pJ have hao resumed work and it itI itIs I Is believed that the tho strike Is col coli i The malls have not at am d from time the south own to the railway ralla strIke Intelligence from the provinces Is Impatiently awaited especially 4 details or of tile the 1 The fhe government apparently has I resolved to have resort to 4 4 coercion 4 4 4 T PETERSBURG Dec 10 Sunday ST S morning via East PrussIa Dec is evor every indication this thi morning mornin that the So SoI gov challenge will be accepted I and that within fOlt hours a general strIke throughout Ru sia will willbe willbe be ordered A terrible storm has been raised by time the arrest of M i Krust leff president of the committee of tile the council which was followed during the night by the im imprIsonment of the members ot of the tho council and n a number of socialistic leaders leader The reaction has haa como come were the words cn every lip and in the liberal camp there thero was only one oneo o namely that it must be re resisted to the bitter end At aU all the meetings last night some ot of which lasted until morning the opinion was unanimous that t the e government had forced the hands ot of time the proletariat and that the supreme weapon a gen end strIke must be invoked Newspapers Confiscated Time The editors at yesterday s rn decided that time the temporary press law forbidding the of vital questions affecting the welfarE of the nation violated the I prInciples of freedom of f speech and prom guaranteed b by the tho imperial mani manifesto festo and timit it must be defied The result was that time the editions of the Russ and halt half a dozen d more papers wore were confiscated Time The employee of time the rail raU railroad road have a strike on account 0 of the declaration lion of martial 18 law W in J and have sent an a appeal 1 to I time the other lO road d to join L Last fist ni ht the nan men Qt th the liti d j to the l f th men inca Absolute A Anarchy i The situation in LIon tl is frightful I Absolute anarchy prevails A mossen I Igel gem gel who arrived here this mornIng do dared that the streets streett or of Rigs Riga were I with blood After Aftel a meeting the railroad men of IUga were mo mowed l down by the fire of machine gims and artillery The railroad mert or of St 81 Petersburg at It a meeting yesterday evening re resolved resolved solved that inasmuch as the reaction is gaining force and the government Is seekIng to retract what was won b by bythe the first strIke the rail railroad I road mad men stand roo ready y t to obey the sig I Inal mini nal for a general but advise their felIo fellow workers to await the word from time the central committee at Moscow as a failure must not be risked j with time the arrests here I IM M ir and aU all the members of I Ithe the union of of time the posts and telegraph operators ot of Moscow with I Il l M at their hoa were arrested at Moscow Durnovo Manifesto InterIor Minister today is issued issued sued an official proclamation not only notifying all the post past and telegraph I es that their failure re to return to I work vork tomorrow will HI bo be equivalent to their discharge but that aU all I agitate for a continuance ot of time the strIke or are arc guilty ot of uttIng or otherwise destroyIng wires and nd apparatus will willbe be prosecuted to Ute the full extent of the law lawIt lawIt It is learned on high h authority that the government has final finally decided against universal sUffrage and all ally in favor of the old project of tW lItone workmen and ad time the extension ot of the ballot to the small rent pa payers ers merchants and time the educated classes S However time the law must still sUll pass the council of t e cm pime and revolve imperIal approval It the decision is upheld it Is apt to end endaU aU alt question of time the support ot of the zemst t The men claim they have been informed that se several rAI sections actions of tile the southwestern alre 1 to the appeal tOl or a 8 general I strIke Cooler oter heads are arc ad advising j against action which might r result In failure and are ara urging a nt ot of action until 1 the or 01 throuGhout the country countr have havo be ben Liberals Wavering It is iB believed thAt if the attempt at is ii persIsted in the tue moderate I LI Liberals w who e are lirt disgusted with tIme the tactics tactic of the and inclined to support the will wUl surely he be driven I beck baek Into UtE the aun ot of the extremists Witts s declare em tb that t h he has never nevor been In I of oC armed and they In that the the I strike leaders must be charged to In Inh h tailor rio Minister who insisted that Ime he h had d proof which could be eq en in the court that Y M let was l an armed revolution antI and that beside attempting to subvert the government lIe he bad Imad attacked Its credit In circulars ln the Ule work workmen men inca and p to withdraw their funds from the savings banks Not ot this doubt Is ep expressed cd as to wh M 1 Durnovo can call Ih his case caie u as time the specific fa tan la iB agitation for tOr polities 1 strikes which inter interfere Cere with the railroad posts post etc ete a criminal offen offense e has lIas not yet be been It I Is g expected however that the Ule Ja law will be pt gated d before the und ond of the week wl when on it Is Kid Ute the can an probably Y time the tt of the tho asi agi asit agitators t tors It Is J understood that General Dedulin oSt of 51 Fe has refused to carry out u M purn vp a or Of d dora that he h has s r d nfl t at ho he hao haa been 1 by Barop DeMey Me c of r ins bod body guard Continued on Page 2 GREAT STRIKE HAS COLLAPSED Continued From Page 1 A humorous sidelight on the sitUa sitUation tion is the action or of th the cooks hun bun dresses and potters of the asylum for forthe forthe the Insane in striking and d demanding I that time the chief be chosen by bp the equal direct and secret ballot of the employee I Printers of the tho Russ RUH the chief organ I of the liberals an edition of which was seized last night have now I because the proprietor hu has refused to 1 pay tl them for time Ume lost the last I strike The sItuAtion Is e exceedingly ominous Public opinion Is practically unanimous I the tho government has entered upon upon the fatal path of reaction and that Wittes ministry mm must ni nat fall fail ReaCtion and revolution confront each other hi hia i a death struggle Both General I and General Count according I to the tho popular Impression are being held heId In rf reserve rye to execute the pro I ramme of repression It Is 18 again pUt that the tho entire Co Cossack ack strength of I wIll be mobilized in ina a supreme I Ieti eti lt to crush the revolutionary force Rivers of Blood 5 I General said r think wo we are coming cominS to rivers of blood In which the revolutionary party will wUl lose I theIr game and her liberty Certainly the appearance or of St Fe and time the c here hele tody seem to justify this black picture of oC the tho future The capital tl a great military camp Time The patrols every I whore el and grim looking rumbled the What smacked or of orthe the old A large workmen was dispersed by Cossacks The building in which the executive committee of the l gue of leagues moots meets was surrounded by troops and no one was p to enter it the colonel in command replying to all In 10 I have my orders At the same time a 0 vast ast meet Ilg of loyal lets was permitted at which speeches were made the em emperor emPeror and amI the To cap the time the funeral of Gene 1 former of was assassinated at S Dec 5 with an imposing array of military rep rel representing I resenting all arms of time tho horse guar guards s ad foot soldiers ed un ul the Prospect be between between tween sullen crowds Councill Counci TIme The remnants of the comm cU ih with from tIme the m mens ns union and other organizations tion are holding balding a meeting tonight to t o othe the ot of n a general strike If r time the I government plans a elmal chal challenge lange lenge now It has chosen its time well as the funds of th the are low and many workmen are tired of the tho strike and of starvation It is under understood stood that when M was ar arrested arrested rested yesterday a cash bOx was captured Some Somo of the Ie bid Id Idora era ora have lashed themselves Into fury tury and arc that the governments I must be Immediately ac |