AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1395, 4 March 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

■ •» -.ajiy THE CRITICAL SITUATION.. COWARDLY, DRAGOONS.. By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, March 2. 1 - A’ Squad of Russian dragoons deser- ' ted across the Austrian frontier, andVr,| , emigrated to the United States. ST. PETERSBURG, March 2. ** i , Tho situation at St. Petersbusg ! and Warsaw is worse- i Eight thousand workmen at War- > saw and Lodz have gone to the villages and are spreading a propaganda. The peasants of Radom district I refuse to .pay taxes, and offer armed, resistance to soldiers suppressing vthe rising. 1 A party of drunken officers fired at pedestrians. V- .

Several school lioysi were shot. ' There are sixty thousand - strikers f at Moscow, and the strike is spreads p. ing. I There 5s a strike of railway men '... I j at Krasnovodak, the Transcaspian terminus. - . The railway 5n Irkutsk district is ... i blocked by, a strike at Grenfal Trans- *r i barkal, i The strikers ait Irkutsk show, a dis- \ quieting attifawle. The troops there are insufficient. ■ A quarter of a million colliers at Donetz struck, and seized a dynamite depot-. PARIS, March 2.- •' ; M: ’Jaures' paper, Lc Humanite, has published a remarkable letter, purporting ta Wave been written by Father G-apon, calling on the Czan ■to abandon 'the throne, since' innocent -blood Eieparatea him front ' thei people. Bombs and dynamite await all assassins of .the people. Father Cfa]poii appeals to workmen! to organise an armed and shoot the chiefs of police,, gover- ■ **-. nors, and generals of gendarmes. He urges tire destruction of government and civic property,, but respect for private property. /I The people, it is added, must rise soL as ono man- at the signal of the * Committee of Defence. A' • There is growing anxiety In France-y ' i respecting {Russia’s prospects for the ' 1 continuance of the war. ‘j