AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1367, 31 January 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

MAN.Y. SOCIALISTS KILLED OR WOUNDED. By; Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 2‘). There arc one Jumidrcd thousand men uit strike at Warsaw, and a further one hundred thousand at Lodz, where the strike is general. The police slopped a Socialist meeting, killing and wounding many. The strike at Warsaw was unexpected. Manufacturers had made substantial concessions of shorter hours and higher wages, but a few agil-atora induced a group of workmen to compel their comrades: to strike.

A conference of manufacturers at K'ovno, the Governor presiding, decided to increase wages after the resumption of work, and to establish a committee of employers and employed to consider the best means of inifproving workmen’s surroundings. THOUSANDS OF ARRESTS MADE. By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright. Received 10.41 p.m., .Jan, 30. ST, PETERSBURG, Jam. 30. Thousands of arrests have been made in connection with the incendiary riots at Sevastopol. THE LATEST CONDITION OF AFFAIRS, By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. Received 12.13 a.m., J;an, 31,ST, PETERSBURG, 'Jan. 30. The Commission of Enquiry into the Nova incident considers it probable that a round of grape shot remained in the gun since the 17th, when used for practice at firing. The situation at St. Petersburg is almost nominal.

The strikers state that they will resume work to-day, partly as a reisult of the Czar’s promise to inquire into the grievances, and partly because General Trepoff’s wholesale arrests have deprived the workmen of ■all intellectual leadership. Moscow is quiet, though the strike is rapidly increasing. Cossacks mercilessly whipped school boys at Sarcto.fi for refusing under the present circumstances .to attend gymnasiums. Barristers at St. Petersburg appealed to the Czar to convene a popular assembly.