REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1364, 27 January 1905, Page 2

REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

FEELING'S AGAINST ■“ .THE MIS- j CRE-ANT, CZAR.” ‘ By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, January 25. Military reports state that a mob < of twenty-five thousand at Kolpino, carryijng a petition, met a regiment | of infantry, and half a field battery from •Tsarkoe.' .The soldiers fired, QnijJ the fighv continued until the workers retreated, tire soldiers pursuing them. Order was restored during the afternoon. The Inhabitants of St., Petersburg are incensed at tlie installation of M. Tripoh at the Winter Palace as dictator of the Capitol.. Movements similar to that In Moscow have begun at [Viliia.. The Daily, Mail states that the massacre of unarmed Kalpino petitioners preceded a battle when the workmen, were armed. ■An officer who, was an eye-witness described the battle and terrible repression as a bath of blood. One thousand workmen at Helsingfors rioted. There were fifty, arrests .

The Daily Telegraph says that 'Father Gapon’s revolutionary manifesto to the soldiers, and his letters 1 to the workers, were so violent that they were burned when. read. 1 .Secret meetings denounced the i v miscreant Czar,” who was accused < of indifierenee to the peopl'd by Hes- - ! sen and other reform, -leaders not connected with the committee or so- I cret organisations. .They desired l r merely, a deputation-to M. de Witte, asking him to prevent bloodshed. The consensus of opinion is that 31. „ Trepoff is a tyrant, " The reactionaries momentarily have the upper hand in. .the Czar's counsels., ’ The National Zeitung is informed f that the ’ chief danger of the moment J is the possibility; of- the Grand Dukes 11 arranging for a military revolution, involving -the Czar’s more ox, less p voluntary resignation. a Mr White,, formerly American ams hassador at St, Petersburg, says 1 the Czar is hopelessly unfit to grapple with the crisis, and that important changes are coming. . . The Governor of Koono warned, the workmen that a violent outburst " .would bo vigorously suppressed. The 8 Government would investigate an'i dry to grant the claims for increased 1 wages and factory, reforms. n Want of funds is operating to stop n the St. Petersburg strike. Some ? masters arc willing to concede nine hours, a day..

THE LATEST NEWS, By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright. Received 10,55 p.m., Tan. 26, LONDON, Jan. 26. The Kreuz 'Zeitung and Berlin Post express admiration of the merciless suppressions. At St. Petersburg an important triai has been postponed, a barrister finding it impossible ho plead owing to recent events. The jurymen agreed with the -barrister’s views. A ukase vesting 3f.'- Trepofii With the most absolute powers, declares 'that the, events of the last few days have shown the necessity for extra precautionary measures for the -preservation of civil order and public security. The 'Czar thanked M. Trepoff for hia Uiistinguishe'd and zealous eervicea at iVloseow. A notice allows St. Petersburg strikers 24 hours in which to resume work, ; ' Those refusing will be deported to villages. By M. Trepoff’s orders the victims were buiried at five in the morning. The relatives in most cases were not permitted ‘ta see the bodies. The latter were identified by. the clothing.

Received 11.37 p.m., Jan 26. St. Petersburg, Jan 26. All the Reval and Riga factories have struck.

A deputation of St. Petersburg press •presenting Prince Mirsky with a petition, emphasised that had the freedom of the press existed the massacres would not have occurred.

Priuce Mirsky intimated that he was consulting M. Trepoff. Two tobacco factories have resumed work. By the Czar’s orders, M. Kokovtseff, Secretary of the Empire, has issued a proclamation warning workers against disturbers whose agitation is alien to the workers’ interests. The workers are in vited to co-operate with the Government’s pacifying They are reminded of the Czar’s reforms decree. The Government are ready to listen to workers’ just desires, and to satisfy them wherever possible.

Barristers at Moscow decline to plead. Davitt is journeying to St. Petersburg. Paul Cernikoff, nihilist leader, is in London. Ten thousand sterling has been offered for his capture, dead or alive. He says he is returning to the motherland, carrying his life in his hands, to help in the hour of distress.

Received 12.26 p.m., Jan 27. St. Petersburg, Jan. 26. Thirty thousand at Moscow have struck. A delayed message declares that Cossacks fired at 3000 demonstrators on Tuesday and many were wounded. The authorities placarded Moscow with telegrams purporting to emanate from Paris, statiDg that according to a London correspondent, disturbances at the Ad miralty works, St. Petersburg, Libau, Sevastopol and the collieries of Westphalia are due to ADglo-Japaneee agents, the provocateurs being to prevent the Baltic and Black Sea squadrons proceeding to the Far East. It adds : The English forwarded enormous sums to Russia to organiso a workmen’s revolt. At Tzarskoi desperate figbting occurred between revolutionaries and police. At iLodz there were many deaths. Bombs killed several police. The prison and other buildings were wrecked. An incendiary fire at Libau marine depots is reported. London, Jan. 26. The Times’ Berlin correspondent states Shat some degree of reforms in Russia is anticipated. The minimum mentioned is a habeas corpus law and inviolable elementary rights.