AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1366, 30 January 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

MERCILESS REPRESSION (TO BE CONTINUED.

By Electric .Telegraph—Per Press j Association —Copyright. LONDON, January 27..The Daily Express St. Petersburg correspondent .says that the Duke or Leuchlcuberg told the Czar the truth of Sun,day’s trouble. _ . The Czar was pro roundly surprised and ordered some of the prisoners to he liberated. He intimated to Ins Ministers to elaborate reforms winch have already been premised. it is reported that Father Capon is lying wounded at Aiaflsafl hospital. He .was for a long time unrecognised. „ Ruidnofl, acting Prefect of Moscow, informed the British Coiisul that he iasiuod the p.lacard printed at the Prefecture, charging England with financing the strikers, in order to ga.m time at a moment of dangerous crisis. I-Ie admitted that it was untrue regarding England, but said lie su s " pec ted Japan. He offered the Consul personal satisfaction if he considered the statements to be insults. Another placard, issued in Moscow alleges that London financiers raised eighteen million roubles to assist the strikers and force peace in Japanese interests. M. Tropolf has resolved to brine the Liberal press to' continue the policy of merciless repression. Official circles attribute the revolt to Prince Mirsky’s leniency.. Sir Charles Hardingo has. protested against the calumnious placard in Moscow. . Count Lams'doxffl promised enquiry and prevention of repetition of the offence.

THINGS .QUIETENING DOWN-

DYNAMITE? OUTRAGE! AT (LODZ

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright. Received 4.14 p.m., Jan. 29LONDON, 'January 28- , St. Petersburg is outwardly quiet. A minority of the workers have resumed, from stress of circumstances. ,The bulk remain out. ■ ] The chemists’ assistants have obtained an eight hours dayiA Government proclamation that M- Trepoff’s appointment is temporary and that his work is not of a. repressive character, has restored confidence. . It is intended to realise reform with the re-esta/blishiment of or ',,P r and tranquility, and to satisfy, the just demands of. the population. This fact is proved by M. Trepofi co-operating with- M. Kokov tse®. The Times' Berlin correspondent says that two regiments Don Cossacks have been summoned to Bfr. Petersburg, on the ground that the maintenanco of oxxicr is a, (iemoralising duty for a Guards’- regiment. The measure is interpreted in Berlin to mean that the agitation is not quelled to tha extent that the authorities represent. Thirty-five dynamite outrages occurred at Lodz in a week. _ There are sixty thousand strikers at Riga. ...... Forty-two were hilled and. Jury, severely wounded on Thursday. Others were drowned while cr-ossmg the ice. No newspapers are being published at Riga. , . Labor, leaders at Riga went to ■Mit-au and organised 6[fcrike processions., Tha entire Nijni Novgorod {Zemstvo lias been imprisoned for protesting against [the St, Petersburg massacre* Three thousand Russians at Whitechapel held an ; enthusiastic revolurtionary meeting similar to the meeting held in Paris* The Labor party protested against the massacres.A; number of societies In Rome Eave been forbidden to demonstrate rbo-morxiow. against the Russian Government’s methods*

COLLISION BETWEEN STRIKERS AND TROOPS. THE STRIKE SPREADING. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Reoeived 4.86 .p.m., Jan 28. St. Petersburg, Jan. 28. It is officially stated at Warsaw that a collision has occurred between the strikers and troops. Two were killed and seven wounded. The strike is spreading. The publication of newspapers has been stopped. The Liberal Russkia Viedowosti at Moscow has been suspended for three months.

Confectioners demand ten hoars a day. The printers’ demands have been conceded. The Chief of Police, in defiance oi the Government’s orders to remove an anti-British placard, informed the Consul that it would remain on the wall for two days at his own responsibility. Work is rapidly being resumed at St. Petersburg and Moscow, owing to the privations of the strikers. Paris, Jan, 28. Socialists, in the Chamber of Deputies, made fiery speeches against Bouvier and Delcasse adhering to the alliance with Bussia. There were shouts of " Down with the Czar 1 Down with assassins ! ” M. Deloassa rebuked tbe speakers, and upheld the alliance, Tho Chamber, by 410 votes to 7, approved of the Government’s general policy. COUNCIL ASKS THAT WOMEN AND CHILDBEN BE NOT SHOT. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Boceived 12.18 a.m., Jan. 30. St. Petersburg, Jan. 29. The Moscow Municipal Council adopted resolutions urgiDg that arms be not used against women, children, students, and workmen, provided they themselves are peaceable ; also, that workmen be permitted to organise peaceful strikes and have tbe right of meeting as trades unions.

j A previous cablegram stated :—The inI habitants of St. Petersburg are incensed I at tho appointment of General Trepoff as Governor-General, and his installation at tho Winter Palace as dictator of the city. Tbero is a concensus of opinion that Trepoff is a tyrant. It is probable that this is the General Trepoff who, as prefect of police of St. Petersburg in 1877, ordered the flogging of a political prisoner. The fact was hidden, and it was not made known until a young woman Darned Vera Zasulitoh, in revenge for the flogging, made an attempt upon tho life of General Trepoff. A jury acquitted her in April , 1878. An attempt was made to arrest her as she left the court, but the crowd saved her.