AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1390, 27 February 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

MASSACRE BY/ TARTARS. By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright, LONDON, Feb, 24. Pour officers eamuinuding the Russian Cuardfi who fired a salute at i’h-e blessing 0$ %he Neva rwa/fcers. rwlien ttoe Czar narrowly] escaped being shot, have been, ordered Aoi bo' cuurt-mar’tialled. " ’ ! A, strike of- engineers has compelled the re-opened factories at Warsaw to reclose.' - 7: It is officially • reported that [there are 40,000 strikers at Batoua. Tartars were let loose on ■■ . the Armenians at Baku. The police did not interfere, pleading absence ibf instructions., After a conflict, three hundred corpses littered the streets: ;It is reported that the Black, -Sea squadron bombarded [the [town, of Fati owing to, rioits.

ANOTHER assassination* STUDENT SHOOTS POLICEMAN, ißy Electric Telegraph—Per Pre?s Association—Copyright. ' , - Received 4.45 p.m.. Fob, 26.ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 25, While a mob at Warsaw; were trying to rescue a, student ,who had been .taken prisoner, a policeman drew his sabre- Another student shot and killed; the policeman. Then he disappeared in the crowd. ' Railway strikes are general : at SaratqS, and office districts.

MURDER OE A] PRINCE* * STABBED TQ, DEATH!* 1 - > STRIKERS HAVE SOME > ' DEMANDS CONCEDED* j By Electric Telegrapb=-Per Press Association—Copyright. ! Received. 4.45 p.m., Feb. 25. ST. PETERSBURG-, Feb. 25. Prince AmironnikoC, who recently ordered the troops to fire .on the strikers at Warsaw, was stabbed, to death. . .. . ... - It was at first reported that the Prince had committed suicide. ' | Forty thousand, mostly belonging to well-paid. .Government establishments at St. Petersburg, again struck, j The Czar, ordered a- nine hours’ I day to be worked* -Libau, railway I stations and workshops’. employees J elect representatives to-report their j needs. A rise in wages was grant-, I ed and .work .was resumed. j

PLAIN .TALK TO THE CZAR* By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright, Received 4,55 p.m., Feb.- 26. LONDON. Feb-, 25, . Tho Standard reports that M. de Witte, at the Council of Ministers, obeying an. injunction jto speak plainly. informed tho Czar that the reforms embodied ip the ukase would no longer satisfy the people... There was nothing to prevent the Czar, proclaiming ait Kazan Cathedral his intention to invito tho co-operation, ox tho people in tho Government, Tho Council adjourned.

THE DUCHESS AND THE ; ASSASSIN, • A DEED OF VENGEANCE, By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. Received 4.56 p.in., Feb. 26. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 25. Grand Duchess Elizabeth interviewed the assassin, who explained that tho lot fell to him to avenge Sergius’ violent measures at Mosccnr. - -mi,l.i ( ;