AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1372, 6 February 1905, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

DISTURBED STATE OE AFFAIRS

.CONTINUES.

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. ST, PETERSBURG, Feb. 3. M. PctrofS is compelling six hundred PutilofS strikers to tramp, to distant villages for refusing to resumo work. Some lacc-workers at Lodz, wishing to resumo work, the strikers interfered., .Tho military were summoned and Bred, at tho strikers, who replied With revolvers.

LONDON, Feb. 6, The Daily, Express states that authenticated figures show that 674 persons were killed and 1403 wounded at Warsaw. Workmen killed a number of hooligans who looted the houses. The Daily Mail states that the .Government will probably direct St, Petersburg employers to grant an increase of wages of ten per cent., and to reduce the hours by one hour daily.

The Daily News St. Petersburg correspondent states that educated Liberals regard the Czar’s, audience with .the workers with Ihekutmost contempt, . The deputation •ry§te J s,iibsequently interviewed. Some ' were gratified, many wem- sullenvV'-others were indifferent,* /He adds that the wlfolo affair was ’got up for home consumption.

sensational escape.

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright. Received 4.31 p.m., Feb- 5. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 4. Socialists at Sevastopol, bribing a wander, released nine "artillerymen arrested for refusing to fire at mutinous sailors when- the dep.ot was destroyed. In effecting their release a rope ladder was made use of, and the artillerymen were met by a carriage, and driven to Yallo. There they changed their clothes, an'd were supplied with forged passports and sufficient money to reach America and Berlin,

The nobility at Moscow, at a private meeting, begun drafting a' strong address to the Czar, in favor of consulting elected representatives of the nation.

.Thirty-eight sailors, ringleaders in the Sevastopol trouble, were sentenced to death. Others are ready for a second mutiny.

Casualties at Lodz were 54, The riot was suppressed.

STRIKE OE SUGAR-WORKERS.

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38 2 Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright, Received. 4.31 p.m., Feb. 5, ST, PETERSBURG, Fob. 4. Forty-two sugar factories at Poland, working night and day on. army orders, struck,, embarrassing the Government. - Strikers at Dourbcowa compelled. Tailway employees at Starsbemexhiza to strike.) " They wrecked .‘.the station and stopped the trains. Strikers punished cutlers at. Warsaw for attempting to resume work, A semi-official paper in S't- Petersburg announces that senseless calumnies originating in’ a psen,do-news - iagency called the Agenee Ratine, Paris, whose telegrams were the basis of the Moscow placard, the censorship. has been strengthened.