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Show UNIVERSITIES AT PETROGRAD CLOSED Purpose Is to' Reduce the City's Population Popu-lation on Account of Lack of Supplies. PETROGRAD, Sept. 22. All the universities uni-versities here, except the medical schools, have been closed for a year, commencing today, in pursuance of a plan to evacuate the unnecessary proportion pro-portion of the population in Petro-grad. Petro-grad. Manager Saltikoff of the department of the interior announced that the supply question is in no wise desperate, the most serious shortage being coal. It may be necessary to divert coal from industrial enterprises to the railways. rail-ways. , Flans are being perfected for the removal re-moval of some government departments to other points, but this entirely precautionary pre-cautionary measure does not necessarily necessar-ily mean an immediate remova.l By. a decree of the provisional government, gov-ernment, M. Nikitine, minister of posts and telegraphs in the Kerensky cabinet, has been appointed minister of interior, lie will also retain his present portfolio. |