AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1371, 4 February 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 2. The Socialist Committee at Warsaw declares its intention to force ■the whole population [to turn .out and fight the troops. W'prKing men fired at, seriously Wounding, the Chief of Police at Odessa, M. Severoif. ' The press censor at St. Petersburg lias been dismissed. This is Interpreted to mean he is dismissed for having allowed the news of jpjuvffiassacre to be telegraphed In order to avoid using the :s>?bTjps, the entire police force of Saraho© have resigned. A „ atussky. Invalid, a military (.ori, JP St. Petersburg, \ published tiieJPEghnslve Moscow placard, c,,ontraryro Count LamsdorfTs exprjess instructions against its circulation. BONBON. Feb. 21

It is rumored at Berlin that the Governor of Warsaw has been assassinated. The Daily Telegraph’s St. Petersburg correspondent stales that [the Czar, after impatiently listening tot strong advice given by M. Yermoloif, Minister for Agriculture, that- a! radical change of policy was essential for pacilication of the country, suddenly authorised him to _ prepare a ukase directing M. de Witte to extend and develop the principles of reform embodied in the ukase of December 25th ; arid to restore orderby peaceful means, inviting the cooperation of the people- The methods of executing the order were left largely to M. de Witte’s discretion, and may include an early, convocation of the Zemsky Assem-ny,* ■Freedom of the press is expected. General Trepofi will shortly be ordered to Manchuria, and all recently arrested prisoners Wi 11 he released.. The Standard's St. Petersburg correspondent reports that M. Yeimoloff advised the Czar to severely punish those responsible for the disaster of the 22nd. -w inculcated the wisdow of consulting the people on national affairs. __. M. Yermoloff states that M. de Witte heartily approved of the advice . The Czar and the Committee of Ministers subsequently conferred. PARIS, Feb. 2. A meeting of 1500 Paris Anarchists and another of French Academicians strongly criticised the Franco Russian They declared they did not believe in the existence of a positive treaty.

TROUBLES CONTINUE.

REPORTED GERMAN ASSISTANCE.

THE STOPPAGE OP SUPPLIES FOR FAR EAST.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 9 27 p.m., Feb 3. St. Petersburg, Feh 3. Six thousand students and wfarkmen at Limburg hooted the Russian Consulate, shouting, “ Hurrah for Polish revolution ! Down with thh Czar.” Many arrests, have been made. Extensive military preparations’ prevented Socialist disturbances at Warsaw, The authorities expect the strikers to resume work on Monday. , Pupils decline to return to school unless the Polish language is introduced. Received 9.39 p.m., Feb 3. All factories at Sasnowie have stopped work. k A report has gained credence that German troops will be summoned across the frontier to suppress disorder. The people determined to destroy the railway bridge. The German commander took measures to guard it.

Paris, Feb 3.

French newspapers report a strike at Tomsk. They fear the polios will be unable to prevent strikers stopping the transport of provisions to the Far East. WISE VIEWS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 10.4 p.m,, Feb. 3. St. Petersburg, Feb 3.

Leo Tolstoi, interviewed by the Standard’s representative, stated that be did not anticipate a revolution of the peasantry. If they resorted to force as a remedy, they would be equally as wrong as the Czar’s troops. A revolution would come through the spread of education t especially a personal revolution, the people’s lives acquiring a true religious spirit. The people must have land, but not by riot.

RELEASE OF M. GORKY. M. DE WITTE AUTHORISED TO EXECUTE REFORMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 10.17 p.m., Feb 3. St. Petersburg, Feb 3. M. Gorky has been released. M. Boulyguine, late Governor-General of Moscow, described as a creature of the Grand Duke Sergius, has succeeded Prince Mirski.

It is semi-officially denied at St. Petersburg that M. de Witte has been authorised to draft a constitution. It is admitted that M. Kikovtseff, Minister of Finance, was empowered to prepare sooial legislative reforms specially dealing with labor.

London, Feb 3. The Daily Telegraph’s Vienna cor respondent states it is officially confirmed that M. de Witte has been entrusted with plenary powers to execute the reforms mentioned in the Christmas ukase of the Committee of Ministers. He recommends the eatabliahment of a body whose duty it will be to safeguard the law from arbitrary Ministerial interpretation.. He urges that tho Senate’s powers be enlarged, rendering it more accessible to sufferers from Government autocratic acts, The Czar concurred.