AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1379, 14 February 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

the total 1 number de casualties. Association—Copyright. By Electric Telegraph—Per Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fob. 11. •It has transpired that when M. (Ploh'Vo wast assassinated lie carried a 'document, for the Czar’s signature, 'authorising a search of M. ,(lo .Witte’s liOiUse. IM.. Suvorin, proprietor of the Novoo Vrcanya, in an article, advocates a parliament of representatives of zemstvos.

A total of 800 persons have boon killed, 300 wounded, agd 2000 arrested in Poland, Five hundred strikers were quietly, crossing a railway; at Skarzysko, When the soldiers tired, killing 24= and wounding 44, Social democratic demiopstrations, sympathising .with Russian: revolutionists havo been! held, at Berlip apd ►Stuttgart,

CQN,TIN;UATIONI OE THE -iDJ&i ORDER, By; Electric —Per Press Association —Copyright. Received 9 p.in.', Feb, 13, •- One hundred thousand, are still striking at Lodz for, art eight hours day, at itho ratQ of tcnp.cpce an hour. . . Ei'Jx Manufacturers offer them a tenhope day, with a moderate increase in wages. There are .ten .thousand troops at Lodz, anct more have been, smnmon-

ed. There is renewed disorder at Warpaw. Hooligans xhupdered the gupsmiths’ shops. The printers havo struck,, and all the big factories are idle. The police intend to, expel all strikers outside the Warsaw; .district, 1

.Tlie Caucasian strikers are resuming work, in order to avert starvation.! ■ , An overwhelming display, p£ military. on Sunday over-awed the St. Petersburg workmen, who. had threatened to avenge the twenty-second (the day when the massacre took place),

. SEEKING FOR 'A REMEDY,. By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright, Received 10.15 p.m.„ Feb, 13j . ST, PETERSBURG,, Feb, 13. The Czan has appointed Senator Chi dlovski president of a committee to ascertain, the causes of the workmen's discontent in St. Petersburg, and to devise remedies. Manufacturers and workmen. axe represented on the committee. The Imperial Russian Technical Social urges the convening of a pan-Russian Congress, representing Labor, .Capital, aad Sciepc.e, ifcg eon,-! sider the labor question. The Moscow Municipality refused to .obey-the .GiotvemoEs summons to discuss g settlement of the labor troubles,, because , they Mere epioiaed toj debata ip secret.