AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1381, 16 February 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

RESERVISTS IN REVOLT*

By: Electric Telegraph.—Per Press ■ Association—Copyright. ST.' PETERSBURG, Fob. 14* Many strikers at Lodz are reselling work

LONDON, February 14., D'lie statement that .Father Gapoij was in Switzerland originated in St-: Petersburg semi-qfficially, hut enri yuiry in Switzerland shows that thoj sla l/emeii fc was a - M® Daily Mail correspond that {Japan's arrest on the r .a .jFw&u •• kept secret fto mislead thb leaders. -

General YrepoK has ordered managers or factories to- satisfy the strikers ; ooherwise official boards of directors will he appointed. TcberkoS survives, despite a previous statement from, two sources' to the contrary. Flour thousand reservists at Boloyoya revolted. A regiment at Novgorod has been' sumimuned, and surrounds them, hoping to stanve them into submission. 'i’iie affray, at Kieft was most serious.

Twelve hundred unarmed reservists detraining from the south-west, attacked their escorts, killing several 1 .; They itben .occupied p,nd. pillaged; the railway station. A battalion was att'dl volleyed twice, hilling fifty. ,The remainder surrendered.

SITUATION GROWING WORSE. -

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 9 21 p.m., Feb 15. St. Petersburg, Feb. 16. jjj The strikers at Liodz are only resuming at the smaller factories, to prevent the owners’ bankruptcy. The strikers are receiving from, a mys- , terious source a small daily pay. The outlook is regarded as more unsatisfactory than when the strike was goneral. Director Putoloff warned th 9 strikers that unless they resumed on the old terms the works would bo closed indefinitely. London, Feb 15. The employees of the Moscow, Kieff, and Vorogmezh railway have struck.