THE DISAFFECTED FORCES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12364, 1 December 1905, Page 7

THE DISAFFECTED FORCES.

A GOVERNMENT DEFEAT FEARED.

THREAT TO BOMBARD SEBASTOPOL. The post and telegraph employees of Moscow have struck. M. Durnovo lias ordered the arrest of the organisers of the Telegraphists' Congress. The strike is general. Only St. Petersburg messages are received, via Finland.' It is stated that 130,000 workmen ore idle in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Lieutenant Schmidt; who was recently cashiered owing to his revolutionary sympathies, is in command of the crtiiser Otchakoff. He has threatened to bombard Sebastopol if tho sailors now ime prisoned are court-martialled. It is feared in St. Petersburg that in the event of a conflict the Government troops will be beaten. Tho "Novoo Krai" alone reports that the revolt is collapsing. Other papers state that tho battleships Tria Sviatitalia and Rostislav have joined the mutineers. General Linievitch has expelled 160 agitators from tho army. I Two hundred and thirty soldiers of the School of Electricity, St. Petersburg, have been arrested for demanding better treatment. Tho recent assailants of the officers in Vladivostock were former soldiers of Port Arthur, who complained that thoy were herded together and restrained to a greater extent than when they wore prisoners in Japan. The St. Petersburg Bourse is terribly shaken bj events at Sebastopol, and the recrudescence of the labour crisis. Four per cents, have dropped to 84. LONDON, November 29. Reuters Agency reports that two* Guards' regiments in St. Petersburg have refused to arrest any of their com- j rades.