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Show Sitatiti in Livonia Is frightful, With Ancrchy Prevailing and the Streets ' Rowing With Blood; Strikers Mowed Dovn With Machine Guns. ! . , . : WAESAW, -Bussian Poland, Dee. 11. The central committee of the j. j union f railroad men now in session at Moscow, will probably order ; a 1 general railroad strike to oegin at midnight in consequence of the arrest of lM. Xrustaleff, president of the -executive committee of the workmen'i Tv council at St. Petersburg. The local committw of .the - railroad - men'i ... unions, has received a notification frt-m the committee at St. Petersburg to that effect. ' ' ' ' " ' : ST. PETERSBURG. Deo. JO. (Sunday rosjltig). via Eydtkuhnen, East Prus-, Prus-, sia,7ec. 11. There is every indication this ' morning that ' the GpvernrAent's challenge will be accepted and -that - within - forty-eight hours a general strike throughout Russia will be ordered. or-dered. A terrible storm has been raised -by the arrest of M. Krustaleff, presl-. presl-. na dent of .theexecutlve .committee of the '- Workmen's council, which was followed fol-lowed during the night by the impris-'"v impris-'"v ; onment of the members of the Workmen's Work-men's council and a number yf. Social-i Social-i istic leaders. . l "The reaction has come, were th" . j words on every,lip' and in the IJbe: - ' ' extremist camp there was . only opinion, namely, that it must be rt ,; ed to the bitter end. - , i Government Forced Their Bands. KX. an the meetings last night, V of which lasted until morning, the o; I' i'lon . was unanimous that the , Govt . ment had forced the hands of the r i letariat and that the supreme weapon ' a general strike, must be invoked, i.v .The newspaper editors at last even- Ing's meeting decided that the temporary tempo-rary press law forbidding the discussion discus-sion of vital questions affecting the welfare of the nation violated the principles prin-ciples of freedom 'of speech and press guarantee- by the imperial manifesto, and that it must be defined. The result was that . the editions of the Russ and half a dozen more radical papers were confiscated. BaUroad Employees Strike. The employees of the Riga-Orel railroad rail-road have declared a strike on account of the declaration of martial law .in Uvonla, and have sent an appeal to the other roads to Join. lLast night the ilroad men of the Baltic lines decided follow the example of the Riga-Orel ' . .'ie situation in Livonia is frightful. ;i olute anarcy prevails. A messenger , v i arrived here this morning declared t the streets .of Riga were flowing i h blood. After a meeting the rail-' rail-' men of Riga were mowed down by -? - fire of machine. guns and artillery. ' iuatNot BissTFallu.-: '"' . The raOroad men of 8b Petersburg at a meeting yesterday evening resolved that inasmuch "At the reaction is gaining gain-ing force and the Government Is seeking seek-ing to retract what. was won by the first pan-Russian strike." the railroad. men stand ready to obey the signal for a general strike, but advise their fellow-workers fellow-workers ' to await the word from . the central committee at Moscow as a failure fail-ure roust not be risked. Union Ceaders Arrested. : Simultaneously with the arrests here, M. Dronshilny and all the members of the union of-the-employees of the post and - telegraph - operators ; of ' "Moscow with M. Kokhanowski at ' their head were arrested at Moscow. Interior Minister Durnovo today issued is-sued an official proclamation not only notifying all the 'post and telegraph employees that their failure to return to work tomorrow will be equivalent to, their discharge, but that all those who agitate for a continuance of the strike or are guilty of cutting or otherwise destroying de-stroying wires and apparatus will be prosecuted to the' full extent of the law. |