Show germans are to protect themselves in baltic provinces st petersburg dec 13 wednesday morning via L east prussia dec 14 the government is making little headway in crushing the telegraph strike the kirea ot the few lines over which service has been temporarily restored are constantly cut and not a single wire is working out ot st petersburg this morning at the present rate feehs will elapse before the service can be really ie stored the news from the baltic provinces today Is to the effect that many ol 01 the german landlords who have not fled are establishing a network of small tort and are standing a regular siege there has been much killing and burning inhabitants of the baltic provinces aso are now in st petersburg were immensely gratified at the publication yesterday of the imperial ukase promising local self government which they say means the abandonment of the policy begun in to destroy the unity 0 the old provinces of the ukase practically insures the restoration ot the status quo ante creating a solution for the questions of reform 0 the peasant conditions the institution ot local sell government and schools and a governor general as the office cd before 1876 the papers generally regard the aa opening the door to decent realization and as the end ol 01 the policy under which the bureaucracy absorbed all power and stifled the ambitions of people the cries for a strong policy to end the tyranny of the revolutionary organs are taken up by such men as charles schwambach Schwa ebach a former minister of agriculture in an interview he denounced premier wittes policy as fatal declares ij hat the strike law will oe as useless as the press law and says that too ony sane method Is lo 10 ansar by force threats of the organizations which are caling to the people to make armed resistance such interviews increase the feeling diab premier position Is almost lost and the humors of the emperors intention to establish a exist on the other hand it is insisted that be premier still enjoys the confidence of the emperor despite the people who are fighting him the has decided to prosecute in court all violations of the new press law tae first prosecution frill be abat of the editor 0 the asha for printing the resolution of the post and telegraph employed emp loyes of st petersburg of dec the new committee of the postal telegraph union has decided to continue the strike until the strikers demands are completely satisfied the official messenger today announced th atthe new electoral law which has been dratted will immediately be laid before the emperor mi TaH acheff formerly for meily russian financial agent in london has ben appointed chief editor of the official SIes |