AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.
By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright.; LONDON, Feb- S. ' French newspapers abate that .there is a general strike at Irkutsk, including \tho railway, hanidsi.' No Russian- hoimo nows is allowed, fro reach Manchuria, since tho recent ,[despatches ,disastrously; affected, .the army, The social democratic workmen’s party, is hooding St. Petersburg With handbills, ’ exhorting tho strikers to .contMuo, and .declaring (that the next demonstration will be under the rod flag with weapons. Reuter’s St. Petersburg correspondent says that 18,000 workers; at Eutilojfß and iObutehioK have again; struck. , , r<l . -Father Rlapon is circulating at S.t. ■Petersburg a petition asking for 'measures to put an cud to the general ignorance and absence of law, to providQ against poverty,, and to protect labor, against) oppression.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 8, The Czar has appointed M. ; Koboko, ai member oE the Council of the Empire,,'as President of the committco to amend the censorship oE press laws in a liberal direction, NEW (YORK, Feh. S.Bayou Molten, Chief of Police at Warsaw, in an interview with a New •York Herald correspondent, stated that the present movement was r'evolutionaryi and not economic- The War. in tlio Far E,ash was prurounjlly; unpopular,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1376, 10 February 1905, Page 2
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