AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1365, 28 January 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

ALLEGED USE OF ARTILLERY; AGAINST STRIKERS.: I By Electric Telegraph l —Per Press Association—Copyright. ST> PETERSBURG, Jan. 26. I The proclamation ordered by the Czar was issiue'd by MM. : 'frepofl and I Kokovstoff conjointly.; I It states -that (the Czar of- his own j freewill recently ordered the GiovernI meat- to deal with workmen’s insurj ance, shortening the hours of labor, ancl to permit workmen .to, .discuss j and declare .their needs. I Tho railway Workshops employees I at Saratoff have struck. Tho dop,nbatfon of editors assjured Princo Mirsky that tho Government’s figures of the dead and Wounded were ridiculous.. •M. Koko-vstofS has agreed that delegates representing manufacturers and workmen should confer with the Government on Friday. LONDON, Jan. 26. ; I Opinion in Berlin is that the revolution in St. Petersburg has been practically suppressed. Moscow is quiet, although thirty thousand struck., ' The newspapers arc appearing. Le Matin’s St, Petersburg correspondent asserts that artillery was used on Tuesday to stop a 1 thousand strikers in tho suburbs. SYDNEY, January. 27. Sydney socialists passed a resolution of sympathy, with Russian workers*.

DELUDING THE PEOPLE. j By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright I Received 10.22 p.rn., Jan 27. I St. Petersburg, Jan. 27. I Tho Prefect of Police at Odessa has I issued a proclamation to tho workers I stating that the Japanese and their allies I in Europe are responsible for tho Russian [ strikes, which began at the St. Petersburg I factories supplying ammunition to the I army and floot. It urges the man to conI tinue work. Everybody wishes to terI ruinate tho war, but not without glory to I Russia or before the lost ground in the I Far East had been regained. I Tho editors' deputation handed Prince I Mirsky a list of 4600 killed and wounded I on Bundny. I Numerous arrests of Liberals at St. Petersburg were made yesterday. M. Trepoff has promised to protect the workers. Three hundred at Baltic ports resumed, I and others at Bakhoff, but tho workers generally are indifferent to the Imperial proclamation. Mounted police knouted demonstrators at Helsingfors. Later the police, with swords, attacked 5000. Many demonstrators woro wounded. The strike ot Moscow is extending. Many barristers at Paris warmly congratulated the St- Petersburg barristers on their attitude. In an encounter between troopers and , strikers at Riga 30 of tho latter were killed or wounded. ,