RISING IN POLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 38, 14 February 1905, Page 5

RISING IN POLAND.

GERMAN TROOPS ACTING. A FRONTIER DEMONSTRATION. 3 CASUALTIES AT LODZ. (By Cable. Association.—Coiiyrigti/t) (Received 8.35 a.m.) NT. PETERSBUKG. Fcbniary 13. Victims to the niunbtr of 144 have been buried at Ixadz. in Poland, while two hundred wounded are in hospital. Owing to the indifrnant fury of the people at the Polish town of iSosncKriee since the massacre in the Catherine Colliery, largely augmented detachments of j Prussian mounted police are patrolling i I the frontier. I j niese troops are allowed, if necessary. | Ito enter Prussian territory for the pur- 1 pose of convincing tlie Poles that unauthorised refugees will not be. allowed to cross. Concerted measures are also being taken to protect the Russian railway bridgp across the Brinitza. Many reservists at Volhyni-a. and Podolia ha\<e taken reitige in the forests.

DEMANDS OF THE STRIKERS.

ST. PETERSBURG, February 13. There are still 100.000 men on strike at Lodz. They are demanding an eighthours' day and lOd per hour. The manufacturers offer a ten-hours' day with a moderate increase of \\-p.gc?. There are 10.000 troops at Lodz, and more have heen summoned. There is renewed disorder at Warsaw, and erijninals have plundered the gunsmiths' shops. The printers are ,i n strike, and all the big factories are idie. The police intend to expel all the strikers at present in Warsaw whose residences arc outside the district.