AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, 28 February 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

FRUITLESS EFFORTS TO DISCOVER CONSPIRACY*,

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —'Copyright. LONDON, February 20. Advices have been received that 30 people, arrested in connection with the assassination of tho Grand Duke Sergius, have been examined without discovery of the existence of a conspiracy. ■ Tho directors- of the Warsaw-i Vienna railway offer the strikers an increase in 1905 'totalling £65,000, ten hours’' day, and other concessions. Work is being resumed. Spotted typhus has appeared an Warsaw. The soldiers at the gasworks ate unable to. produce sufficient gas, and the city is threatened with 'darkness.

THE CZAR YIELDS. FURTHER STRIKE TROUBLES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Received 8.59 p.m., Feb 27. London, Feb 27. Reuter’s St. Petersburg correspondent says that Yermolofi’s report on the internal situation was submitted to the Czar on Saturday. It dwelt on the dangers of procrastination and the abßolnte necessity for immediate and drastic concessions to avert a revolution. Ho that nothing will satisfy ; distracted Russia exoept a constitution on Western lines. The Czar was convinced, and has authorised the summoning of a representative Assembly to prepare a constitution conceding a large measure of autonomy. St. Petersburg, Feb 27.

A strike originating in a stop the war demand occurred at the Chita workshops on the Siberian railway. The post and telegraph offioials and the police at Moscow are demanding increased wages.

A PANIC AT BAKU. SULLEN, DETERMINED STRIKERS AT ST. PETERSBURG. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Received 9.53 p.m. Feb 27. St. Petersburg, Feb. 27. A panic has occurred at Baku. Numbers are leaving. Troops maintain order in the Caucasus. By the Government's wish, Catholics, in sacerdotal robes, harangued the Armenians in the streets, begging them not to attack the Tartars. Peasants in Central Russia aro sending numerous deputations to St. Petersburg to ascertain if the Czar has issued an ukase ordering the re-distribution of land. The sullen, determined attitude of 50,000 strikers at St. Petersburg oooasions anxiety. The managers of factories have sent their families away. All railway employees, excepting the Central Asian,' have been placed under martial law. The Warsaw police demand 25 roubles per month instead of 12, Fearing a strike the authorities order a soldier to accompany, each policeman. Fifteen thousand iron workers at Warsaw resume work, having been granted shorter hours and higher pay.