Show RUSSIA FACES GRAVE DANGER a Strike by Socialists t BLOODSHED VERY PROBABlE J AUTHORITIES PREPARING FOR FORAN FORAN AN OUTBREAK t T PETERSBURG Jan strike ST 0 situation is becoming v very ry grave Tonight there are o men out on strike and the movement Is spreading to the big cotton mills Which employ over oer op operatives Meetings have haye been called for tomorrow at which the Social Democratic leaders wH use their utmost endeavors to convert the strike Into a vast political demonstration which at the present prent crisis might have haye most moat serious developments The authorities are adopting everY precaution to avoid an outbreak hut but the Socialistic are the strikers and there Is Teat great danger of a collision with troops which would be almost sure to De be fol al lowed with ith red flag Clag ac accompanied accompanied companied with great Rioting Expected The community Is full ot of sensational ru more and rioting Is g generally neran expected In conjunction wIth the Epiphany cehe which win will occur tomorrow the meetings ot of strikers will make the tho day It critical on one for tb Thus far the strikE has preserved a pare I hy economic aspect The Th great lEat industrial quarter of St Petersburg presents th the appearance of an armed camp The idle are surrounded b by ot of police an and patrols of InfAntry march about the plains Led by a Priest The strikers are by a 8 priest t named GOpin who is idolized hy by th the workmen and who represent them in negotiation with the employers This Is th the first great strike In nort northern t rn Rt Rissia Hitherto the workmen have been unorganized and strikes In St have not involved more than mt men n The If strike leaders claim to have haf funds enough to hold out for COr a month hut this is dou doubted wd and the lack hack lackor or money and tile the of oC winter and perhaps government interference are expected to make the strike short and sharp TIle The strikers who at first declined an offer of support are reported to hse accepted a contribution from Moe I cow con Bearing en the War WarI WarThe I The strike has hasan an important bearing on onI the war In Ia the far east as every pery dR days s I delay delao In completing government con contracts tracts with the Iron works means the loss I of time In the starting of the third Pacific squadron I |