AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1375, 9 February 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

THREATENED ASSASSINATION OE ,TME .OZA'Hj . .COSSACKS’- COiW-ARDI/Yj ATTACK ON .WOMEN. ißyj Electric Telegraph—Per Preys Association—Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG:, Feb. 7. 2VL. ’do Witto, replying to a deputation of engineers, asking for constitutional freedom for workers, said: ho was neither for nor against a constitution., .They must look before (they leap.. He admitted that disorganisation. Was duo to errors of government and other circumstances, and promised to submit at memorial to .the Czar. LONDON, February 7. ißeutcr’s Berlin correspondent states that the Czar found in his study at .Tsarikolselo a letter announcing that twelve men had determined to assassinate him owing to tho events of the 22nd. The workers at Novikoff's factory, Rostov, refused to strike. Six hundred wives of other strikers stormed the factory, and compelled Novikoß’s men to. leave. They, routed the police who interfered. Cossacks- wesc summoned. They knouted and dispersed .the women, killing several. Three thousand two hundred' Polish reservists rioted and looted Wolkowsk and Grodno. <

Tho regulars, volleying, killed fifteen and forcibly, entrained, the rest, who vowed that they, would not lire a shot in Manchuria. Received 9.7 p.m., Feh. 8, ST, PETERSBURG, Feh, S.

General TrepoFi has fixed a date for the resumption of University and Other classes. If mutinous students are ini a majority, they will be expelled, and every institution, closed. It is unofficially stated that- the Czar, is at an early date convening a {Zemstvo, Congress. The Government is anxious to restore tranquility,,- as even if the opportunity for an honorable peace occurred it would be impossible to recall beaten anti .disappointed troops and disband them amongst disaffected population. M, Kedrine, member for St. Pet-

ersburg Municipality-, has been arrested., A search of Ms domicile revealed a draft proclamation inciting the army, to revolt. Strikers at Lodz are terrorising

operatives willing to resume. Manufactures offer ten hours a day and increases varying from 5 to 15 per cent, provided all resume. Father Gap.om is in Switzerland. The strike on the Transcaucasian railway at Blizabethpool ani'd elsewhere is spreading. Work at Lifoau has been largely resumed.

The strike at Mitau ende’d In riots. There Was) bloodshed at Lodz

and Tiflis, and further riots at Warsaw,;