REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1363, 26 January 1905, Page 2

REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

LYING, STATEMENTS OR THE OFFICIALS.

By, Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association.—Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG,, Jan. 21. 'An aged General, while sledging on Sunday towards folio troops, ,wasi ashed by, the infuriated crowd whether he was going to order the troops to, lire on them. The General told his coachman to Proceed. A well-dressed man struck his head, ! • , The General was thon evicted from his sleilgc, beaten, add trampled to death. The lire at Sevastopol was the work of infuriated sailors, who liad been badly victualled and harshly treated. They recently rioted and maltreated their officers, and yelled, *’ Down with Admiral Tiolijuohim ! Stop the war ! Down with absolutism Soldiers were summoned and volleyed in the air. The regiment Was sent to the barracks. The colonel, remonstrating, was told that it the soldiers were compelled to shoot them, their officers would he their targets. The lire destroyed the naval depots.

It is officially stated that no collisions between the troops and the crowds occurred on Monday, and l that no one was killed or wounded. There was, it is said, some pillaging and winfdowHbreakinig, hut order was quickly restored, and the city at night was quietThere is no excitement to-day. Thousands are idling in the streets. The military do not interfere, except to keep (the traffic clear, but the temporary lull' lias reassured nobody. There are persistent rumors of great unrest at Odessa. KharkofT, Sevastopol, Kishineff, Finland, anil Poland. There are ten thousand strikers in Moscow, No newspapers are published. M. Pobiobonustzeft, Procurator of the Holy Synod, is seriously ill. LONDON, January 24. The Daily. Telegraph states that at the instance ot journalists, literati, and others,, a body of men of standing have been constituted a qommitteo to form a future provisional government. They, are aware that failure to seen,re a constitutional regime is, equivalent to. exile or death. Reuter, states that the attitude of all classes in Mbscowi is threatening The householders arc arming. Other, advices state that the Imperial family is at Gatschina. A party of marines at St- Petersburg on Sunday declined to fire on the crowd. It is understood that the C.aar issues a manifesto to-day, and proclaims martial Jaw; in St, Fetersburg, ... He will promise a commission to investigate labor grievances. An official statement issued at StPetersburg sets forth that while the strike was orderly it was not suppressed, but when the Factory Workers’- Association over-stepped its intellectual' an'd religious objects and fell under revolutionary influence, then steps were taken against itGapon, its president, conoealeil from the majority the real character of .the insolent demands of a petition (purporting to represent labor, grievances, and also concealed the real purpose of the meeting whereto they were invited at the Square, The bloody collisions that took place were the result of a refusal to obey the police regulations or of attacks on the military. , The Times’- Berlin! correspondent says that the Russian telegraphic censorship,; latterly in abeyance, is now. being’ rigorously exercised. It is clear from what has been telegraphed that the authorities 'desired the agitation to come to a head. ■They did not oppose the preliminary organisation of a procession. The police were forbidden to prevent the development of a revolution, but were instructed to allow events to ripen for the action! of the military. Tbe Kreuzzeitun and other advocates of the traditional Russian- policy of representation defend the Grand Dukes. Liberal and Radical newspapers scathingly 'denounce the incident. _ . Russian stocks fell several points on the Berlin Boiurse. The new loan is quoted at 93(2The comments of many of the French newspapers on the St. Petersburg massacre are extremely bitter. They predict the downfall of C,zarism. Russian residents in America are greatly excited. Their union remitted to the rioters £IOO,OOO. , The West Ham Trades and Labor Council forwarded to Mr Balfour a resolution expressing horror at the wanton butchery of many comrades at St. Petersburg, and urge a protest bo sent on Great Britain’s behalf,;

STORM READY, TO BURST,,

SYMPATHY OK LEGAL FRATERNITY,-

By, Electric Telegraph—Per Press 'Association —Copyright.

Received 8.47 p.m., Jan. 25.. ST., PETERSBURG, Jan. 25. The train service at Tsarkosalo. •has been suspended. Three hundred and fifty barristers an'd solicitors passed resolutions of entire solidarity with the strikers, ie protesting against the Goverium-cnt’s ;e action in provoking bloodshed, Cossacks, in dispersing the crowd, e of workers yesterday, wpwided sevei- ral witli swords. s The city is in a high state of lens sion, and bristling with bayonets., r Numerous detachments guard the i co.urtyards .of public and private buildings. 3 M. Tregofl has been appointed Gos vernor-General of St. Petersburg , with plenary power, a The prefecture of Cino has been 3 abolished. 3 Bisson, editor of the Annensky, a 3 well-known writer, and several , Ipthers associated with the initiation of the committee for Provisional i Government, have been arrested. General Kuropatkin’s stores are imperilled, owing to the strikes. Efforts are being mado to terminate the strike at almost any, cost,

PARIS, Jan. 25. The Petit Journal’s St. Petersburg correspondent advises that armed workmen worsted the soldiery at Kolpino more than once during the massacre, lasting the morning and. the nighty The correspondent adds that, it is officially estimated that there were 10S killed and -380 wounded. The ■whole village was a scene of horrible deeds. Other French! advices state that the Czar is practically sequestrated. The persistent silence imposed on him by, dangerous advisers causes uneasiness, lest the people are-driven to desperation.- Hitherto, they were accustomed to. look to tho 'Czar as sole spiritual and temporal head. Bis present attitude Suggests a position of tutelage. Despite the obviously cliimsily-cen-scred news, there are unmistakeablc signs of tho attitude of the Russian, crowds in the large centres. They are sullen with pent up rage, and the storm is ready to burst.

A SIGNIFICANT ELECTION.

By, Electric Telegraph—Per Press 'Association —Copyright. ST, PETERSBURG, Jan. 25.M Galitziri, Mayor of Moscow, who resigned as a protest against the Government’s communique, condemning the reform: movement, Mas reelected by, .115 1^

FASHIONABLE THOROUGHFARE. IN. DARKNESS,

CHEMISTS' ASSISTANTS .JOIN STRIKE,

By Electric Telegraph—Per I J res3 Association—Copyright. Received 9.4 p.m., J|an. 25. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 25.

Electricians at St. Petersburg manned some electric lighting works and restored the light yesterday. Later on the suspension of work at the Belgian, Companies’ Central Station, which was fuKnishing most of the city’s electric light, plunged the fashionable Bolshaia-Morskaia thoroughfare ini darkness. The chemists’ assistants have struck.;

THE UPHEAVAL SPREADING.

“ DOWN WITH! THE MURDERERS OR LITTLE CHILDREN:!” By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright. Received 9.47 p.m., Jan. 25. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 25. When tile news of the St. Petersburg massacre reached Radom, the workers paraded, shouting, “ Down with the Czar ! Down with murderers of Little Children !”- Reservists broke out and joined the fighting against the troops. Three officers, many soldiers, and one hundred workmen were killed. Several buildings were dynamited. The upheaval is spreading throughout Russian Poland.

RESERVISTS JOIN THE CROWD,

A FIERCE FIGHT. HAND-TO-HAND ENCOUNTER.

By Telegraph—Frees Association—Copyright I Recoived 10 p.m., Jan. 25. London, Jan. 25. The Doily Express states that after the reservists joined the crowd at Radom, several companies of infantry aided. The gendarmes and police fired to restore order. The workmen violently resisted them. The leader fired a revolver, and killed the commander of the first company. The second commander fell to another workman's revolver.

The gendarmes were ordered to shoot the ringleador. The latter was badly wounded. The soldiers advanced to despatch him. There was a desperate struggle to protect him. The mob were bayonetted back, and the gendarmes hacked the nrostrate leader dead with their sword?,, The infuriated mob rushed wildly at the soldiers, and a hand-to-hand fight ensued. Fifty soldiers and one hundred workmen aD d reservists were killed. Late r on the military fired bullets at the as isemblages, and there were many victims.

'THE SEVASTOPOL RIOTERS,

FATHER GAPON AT MOSCOW.

■POLICE POWERLESS AT KOONO.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Received 10.15 p.m., dan 25. St. Petersburg, Jan 25. The police at Xccno were powerless_ to prevent the overwhelming demonstration of denunciation of the St. Petersburg slaughter. The public buildings were damaged. The officers systematically defrauded the sanlors of the Sevastopol of pay and ration's, victualling them on offal and tainteil food. Eight thousand attacked the officers quarters. An officer had a broken skull and others had broken limbs. Their residences were fired. The rioters threatened to invade the admiral’s quarters. The troops were summoned, with the reeult cabled. The sailors fired the whole of the factories and workshops. The damage is incalculable.

Father Gapon is at Mosoow, where twenty factories, including four of the largest, have struck. All tho factories and railway workshops at Koono have stopped.

« BLUNDERS AND CRIMES.”

EVEN RUSSIAN STATESMEN EXPRESS REGRET.

MR ARNOLD FORSTER SPEAKS OUT.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 10.15 p.m., Jan 25. London, Jan. 25.

The Daily Telegraph’s St. Petersburg correspondent says that M. de "Witte and Prince Mirsky deplore the latest relentless measures as blunders aud crimes. Maxim Gorky is a prisoner. The Czar’s whereabouts are unknown. Mr Arnold Forster, speaking at Croydon, said: “ The great people of Russia, ninety millions of whom were peasants, were well deserving of Briton’s sympathy. We desired that they should enter the heritage of freedom which we enjoyed through our forefathers' sacrifice. The best message we could send was one of sympathy, and a hope that their aspirations would bring them the same bappinesß and liberty which we enjoyed.”

CZAR’S DEATH DECREED.

SENTENCE OF THE TERRORIST PARTY.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 12.47 a.m., Jan. 26. Sc. Petersburg, Jan. 25. The Boyebayo, or fighting organisation of the Terrorist party, has decreed the Czar’s death.

Oniy tho briefest details of tho slaughter in the streets are to hand. It is in itself a sign of tho times that even so much as thut should bo allowed to pass over the Russian tolegiaph wires. Not two years ago things were different; The Russian correspondent of Tho Times was then arrested as a common pickpocket, and, under circumstances of contumely, compolled to leave the country. A section of the British soction at this time bewailed the fact that they had not a Pitt as Premier. Certainly the incident was humi. liming enough for Britain, for the offence of the correspondent was that he sent to his journal news of what wus transpiring in Russia. Russian officialdom, though at first asserting that his nows was false,

quickly abandoned even that excuse. It was not only untenable, but it was superfluous to oxcuse at sli, for Russia’s attitude then towards Britain was very insolent, and circumstances rendered it necessary for Britain not to be ready to seek a cause of offence, or oven to demand the restitution of a wvoDg. Another Power was propared to attack tho Mother Country if Bhe

went to war with Russia. But a change has come over the spirit of tho Russian bureaucratic dream, and although we may rest assured that the news sent over the Government wires has been garbled, it has Dot been suppressed altogether. Hence we learn of infantry soldiers throwing down their rifles and fraternising with the strikers, and of bitter hostility to their officers on the part of other troops. We

learn, for example, that when the mob was retreating along tho Nevski Prospect, , a magnificent promenade permitting the greatest advantage to troops, three volleys fired into the retreating crowd resulted in the killing of thirty only. It is true that many were wounded, aceording to the message, but if the proportion of killed to wounded were similar to that experienced in war only a hundred and fifty casualties occurred. Obviously in thiß case every bullet did not have its billet. Of the masses of troops who fired a large number I must have aimed over the heads of tho I poople.—Telegraph. I