Disorders have broken out at St. Petersburg and several shops have been plundered. The streets are crowded with workmen and shops are rapidly closing.
The railway strike is general in European Russia, Trade is paralysed, Three thousand passengers, strike-bound at Moscow, have been fed and sheltered by the authorities.
The tradesmen are exasperated by the dislocation of business, Warsaw is completed isolated.—Reuter, London, 27th October.
At the conclusion of a Council at Peterhof the Ministers were unable to return to St, Petersburg by rail and were conveyed in the Imperial yacht. 7 A conflict occurred at the Nikolas station, St, Petersburg, between the strikers and some engine-drivers who were desirous of taking out a train. Revolvers were fired and_several were killed and injured—Zeolusive service, London vit Bombay, 27th October.
The Council of Ministers has definitely decided in favour of the formation of a Cabinet and that the Premier shall be entitled to propose all Ministerial Appointments except the Ministers for War and the Navy, and the Foreign Minister.—Reuter, London, 28th October.
The delegates of the workmen's corporations at St. Petersburg have resolved to continue the general strike to the bitter end, but to give no occasion for violence—Ewolusive London vii Bombay, 28th October.
Martial law.has been proclaimed at Kharkoff, but generally the strike movement is making headway without disturbances.
Fresh provisions at, St, Petersburg are at exorbitant prices. The gar-risen are on short rations.
General Trepoff, commanding the troops at St. Petersburg, has issued a stern warning that he will nip any disorders in the bud. He has ordered the troops and police unhesitatingly o suppress any outburst with ball, cartridge.
The lawyers have decided to strike until a Constitutional Assembly summoned. It is stated that 50,000 professional men are involved. The
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