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Show I STRIKE IS WORSE IN ST. PETERSBURG! Collisions Are Constantly Taking Tak-ing Place Between Strikers and flip Troops. MACHINE GUNS SWEfJP THE NEVSKY PROSPECT Alarming Extension of the Strike in the Outlying Provinces. ST. PETERSBURG, Dor 27. 11 p. I m. Then is no further nows from Mofi-cow Mofi-cow tonight. The- Associated Press correspondent there sucee-eeled In potting pot-ting tho St Petersburg buroau by tele-phone tele-phone this evening, but ho had only uttered tho words, "I nm going to t 51 you a horrible story." when he was cut off Since then nothing has horn heard from tho correspondent. The Semtnovsky regiment of guards was dispatched to Moscow by train tonight. to-night. Thia Is considered lather ominous. omin-ous. ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 27. Minor colllpjonn between the troops and strikers, of v. horn there are almost 60,-000 60,-000 still out. are taking place rnn-Btaritly rnn-Btaritly In St. Petersburg. Cossack patrols are oharging and dispersing workmen whenever they collect. Tho most serious affairs occurred at the Narva g.tte and on the Molka canal, in which fifty persons were killed or v ouhded. Guns Sweep Nevsky Prospect. Automatic guns have been mounted on tin- bridge over the Fontanka anal, from which they can sweep Nevsky Prospect In either direction, and also both ways of tho canal. The battery Is enclosed In a collapslM. Bhed in order not to attract too much attention. Following the example of the authorities authori-ties at Moscow, about half the police if St. Petersburg are now armed with rifles, and the unwonted spectacle of policemen with bayonets on their rifi. s adds to Hie Public alarm. I Alarming Extension Outside The news from the provinces today shows an alarming extension of the strik.-. Koknov a fortress town Of Lithuania, having about 80 000 inhabitants, inhabi-tants, seems absolutely In the hanrls Of tho Socialists, who have summoned the people to an armed rising, and the situation (a so serious ;it Krem-cntchug. Krem-cntchug. South Russia, that the Gov- i nor has declared martial law for the purpose of restoring peace and insuring insur-ing -the elections to the National As-m As-m rnbly. Employees Dismissed. The employees of the Southwestern railroad did not report for duty yesterday, yes-terday, and were dismissed. At Tlflls, Caucasia, peace has been patched up between the Mussulmans and Armenians. The strike, however, Is almost general. The Social Demo-ciats Demo-ciats eOr.trol the railways Have to Reconquer Baltics. The situation is really far more serious in the Baltic provinces, cau- nsla and olh-r noi,-;cusi;' n provinces, where the entiie population is hostile. Tu the case of the Baltic provinces It Is realized that It may be necessary to practically reconquer them. The first divisions of the first army corps, which belongs to St. Petersburg province, have begun to arrive here from Manchuria, but they are being dispatched to the Baltic provinces without stopping here. Strikers Erect Barricades. It Ih reported that the strikers this afternoon erected barricades In the Vicinity of the Narva, gate. The employees of the Risan-Ural railroad Stjrtck today The Narshad-ney Narshad-ney and half a dozen satirical papers have been suppressed and their offices sealed up by the police. Remove Socialist Officials. Interior Minister Durnovo has Issued an order directing the removal of all officials of the Ministry and Interior who are actively participating in the Socialist camn.-'itm. Aniom- r.thgm . I four editors of the official Russian news agency. The Bourse Gazette announces that Prince Peter Kropotkm, the famous revolutionist leader, is on his way to St Petersburg, being free under the amnesty decree to return to Russia. |