Show GUNS MAY BE TU ON ST PETE great uncertainty As to what the russian soldiers will do witte and emperor listen to the workmen 8 dec 1 p na the crisis continues the telegraphic tie up throughout russia is practically complete and the government does not know what is happen lne in the interior 0 the empire emissaries ot the strikers have been sent to finland to induce their comrades to join in the strike ahls would cut off cable communication which remains open for the press and government messages although the central office here is nominally closed much as the government would like to resist it Is powerless with the threat of a general political strike next monday hanging over its head and the fact that interior ter durnovo will probably be sacrificed to secure the resumption of telegraph communication at the same time the government is fully conscious that the demand tor the reinstatement of the leaders ot the telegraphers union and the dismissal 0 M durnovo are mere pretexts and that its surrender only serve to encourage the revolutionists to new effort these efforts ollow tae the tactics in the case of the cronstedt Cron stadt mutineers muti aie certain to batee the form ot a fight to save the lives ot the sevastopol sebastopol Seba mutineers muti for the purpose of again proving the proletarian ts solidarity with the army and navy the russ declares the situation IB such that the in unable to guarantee that tomorrow the guns ot cronstedt Cron stadt will not bombard the capital the watte government seems utterly unable to find a weapon to fight the passive revolution while it hesitates hoping that the tide will somewhat subside and permit the realization ot the reforms in an orderly way meanwhile the country Is threatened with a counter revolution with all the horrors of a vacquerie Jac insurrection of peasants and it becomes more and more apparent that there are only two modes of egress the government must put the whole country under a dictatorship and martial law or proclaim a ready made constitution premier witte refuses to consent to the former although the court officers and the imperial guards are clamoring for it the advocates of the latter are increasing M editor of the eremya openly announces this is the only possible hope of rallying the moderate sentiment of the country to active support of the government the associated press learns that none of the sevastopol sebastopol Seba mutineers muti will be executed no further details arc obtainable of the circumstances of the arrest at selo of soldiers belonging to the imperial guard st petersburg dec 1 A state ot minor siege has been declared in trans cappla and |