AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1378, 13 February 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press 'Association—Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb, 10., Tlic PntilofT strikers demand an eight Ilnurs’ clay,.; .The directors fuseStu'donfca at St. Petersburg visited the graves of the victims ot the distil rtanccs of the 22nd and vowed vengeance. They, threatened the Czar. . Sixteen were arrested. General Trepoll’s dictatorial interference with every department lias greatly .olTerwled the Ministers, who threatened a collective resignation unless his officio,usness "were modified . The Metropolitan has ordered Father Gapou to appear before the Holy, Court within a month to answer accusations of fomenting disturbances.; iSchero.O,; Governor-General of Warsaw, who. was wounded in strike encounters, has diod. Although General Kuropa'tkin is demanding a quarter of a million reinforcements, the Government have suspended mobilisation in, Poland an,d some other districts, fearing a general rising. .Thera are 110,000 car loads jpl war stores awaiting transport to Manchuria.

HORRIBLE BRUTALITY. THE TORTURE OF WOMEN. By Telegraph—Press 'Association—Copyright Received 4.32 p.m.; Fob. 11. St. Petersburg, Feb 11. Eleven pounds of dynamite wore stolen from tho neighborhood of Casimira mines. There are 25,000 strikers at St. Petersburg. They are sullen and .vindictive. The situation is threatening. There is great indignation at St. Petersburg over tho polios removing a female student from the hospital and twice cruelly flogging her with birch rods, regardless of her Buffering from a severe sabre wound in the breas_t, until she disclosed her revolutionary associates. It is believed that many were similarly torturod.

It is reported that M. Gorky has been sent to Riga to undergo' trial, being suspocced of wishing to join a projected provisional government to try to disestablish the ohureh.,

Within a few hours of succeeding Prince Miraki, M. Bulyghine searched M. de Witte’s house and seized a mass of documents. >

The Conservatives were victorious al Charkoff in the Zemstvo elections.

SHOOTING DOWN THE STRIKERS By Telegraph.—Proas ABsooiatlon Copyright Received 4.32 p.m., Feb. 11. St. Petersburg, Feb. 11. Two factories at Lodz, not paying strikers for strike days, brought about collisions with troops. Twenty strikers were killed and 75 wounded. The strikers crowded a narrow yard at the German Catherine colliery, Sosnowice, to prevent the machinery hands resuming. A cordon of soldiers protected the machinery. A Polish officer repeatedly summoned the strikers to disperse. When the strikers threatened the soldiers with revolvers, one threatening the officer with a knife, tho latter ordered the soldiers to fire three volleys. They killed 33 and seriously wounded 70, many in the baok as they were fleeiDg.