AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1374, 8 February 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

MORE FIGHTING: AND BLOODSHED.. By; Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copy; l iftht. ST, PETERSBURG, Fob.. G. .Thousands of workmen declare that the deputation to the CZar, cabled on the 2nd, consisted really of p.olicc agents and did not represent the St. Petersburg operatives. Delegates representing four hundred: thousand St. Petersburg workmen resolved to petition the Czar for an audience in order to present a memorandum describing the moral, material, and social condition of the people, and to pray him not to trust the bureaucracy with the introduction, of improvements.. LONDON, February, C. The Daily Mail states that one [ hundred .thousand .workers ao .Tosnoyjico have struck. They are well armed. Fresh lighting and bloodshed have 1 occurred. I Tile Old and Uniate believers (Greek .United) at Siedlice burnt I three Orthodpx churches. I .There have been seven hundred arI rests in Moscow.

Two hundred x>ersons have been expelled from the Gymnasia for daring ifcq petition: itha directors for the introduction .of the Polish language. They will be permanently, excluded from GiOivernruent schools, and serve three y ears in tho ranks, instead of a year as volunteers, « "The Daily Telegraph’s St, Petersburg correspondent states that the ukase issued by, lYempioS, Minister of Agriculture, directing the preparation of a scheme of internal reforms, also an enquiry into the massacre, has been shelved, j Major Napier, military attache at the British'Embassy, has concluded an enquiry into the outrage on the Consuls at Warsaw^, Captain Murray declares .that the attacks are such as might have happened to anybody in the street. The incident is considered closed.

i THE COUNCIL .HE NOBILITY,. By Electric Telegraph—Per Preys Association—Copyright. Received. 10.24 £,m. n Feb. 7„ ST, PETERSBURG, Feb. 7. A minority of Moscow, nobility /drafted a fresh address to the Czar, that elected representatives would increase the Sovereign’s prestige, creating for him a living force in tho confidence of society, summoning representatives needed, to appease and tranquillise public feeling. The .vices pf tho bureaucracy, were revealed in all Russia, although masked in the Christmas decree.

flfte Grand Dyked persuaded the 'Czar that the reception of the 34 Workman was easy alternative ba reform.

The nobility fif St. Petersburg, by. 15S to 20, urged the Czar .to follow, his ancestors’ example and summon elected representatives to particL •pat'e ini legislation, ,Tho Emperor’s confidence in the nation would soon dispel the - internal troubles, and strengthen loyalty.

(SUPPRESSING. TILE NEWS.; AN OPERATIC SINGER GETS INTO, TROUBLE, By Electric .Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. Received 10..54 p*m.„ Feb, 7* ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 7, 'All news relating to .the strikes iat Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Irkutsk has been suppressed. Madame Kuga, opera singer, has been expelled from Russia for* congratulating an officer on the Russians’ first victory over the 'Japanese, alluding to events on the 22nd. According to the Daily Mail, the authorities are unable to cope with the great revolutionary movementbeing prompted in Transcaucasia.j

ASSASSINATION. A PRO-BUSSIAN KIDDED BY REVODVER SHOTS. ASSAIDANT ABBESTED. fiS2 Electric Telegraph.'—Per Press Asaoci ation—Copyright. Beceived 11.12 p.m., Feb 7. St. Petersburg, Feb. 7. Johnson, Procutator of the Finnish Senate, who was unpopular owing to his pro-Busßian sympathies, has been assassinated. Three revolver shots were fired at his residence by an unknown man, giving tho name of Gadde. A detective in attendance fired his revolver, and wounded and arrested Gadde. CONTINUOUS CONFDIOTS. TWENTY STRIKEES KIDDED AND MANY WOUNDED. Be Telegraph—Press Association—. Copyright.) Beceived 11.12 p.m., Feb 7. Dondon, Feb 7. There have been continuous conflicts of the strikers and military at Kalisz. Twenty etrikers were killed and many wounded. Traffic between Sosnource and Olkusz has been suspended. The situation at Warsaw and Dodz is unchanged. Few are resuming work.