AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1397, 7 March 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

OF THE STRIKES.. -V

THIE CZAiRi’/TMAiNIFE.STia.r By; .Telegraph—Press Association—* Copyright. \ ST. PETERSBURG, March 5. Eighty-three St. Petersbur-gfaclo-ries, employing 51.G04 been, thrown idle by strikes. ~y V No collisions between. >. v-milit-i ary and workmen occurred on Sa-. Kurday. - F .The appointment of General Maksiaft as Governor of Warsaw is well received. The gasworks strike has ended, on' the basis ol' a nine hours’- day, andan advance in wages. Four hundred Jews and three prominent journalists have been- arrested at Warsaw, and the ga -ison is strongly reinforced.

LON DOI’’ 1 ’’ March 1 5.. Pobjeclonostzelf i_„-Jposod to have authorised the ■u-atfifesto which was signed by the Czar without con-* suiting his Ministers. Tho Czar’s unqualified reassertidn of absolution has caused surprise in Germany. It is considered that ilia fear of a palace revolution is driving a the Czar into -the arms of the reactionaries. The police and military alone are j. satisfied with tho manifesto. i ,

THE FAMOUS MANIFESTO. c? ■ EFFECT LIKELY TO BE VERY j SERIOUS. * £ ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright y' Received 12.5(1 am., March 7. St. Petersburg, March 6. Tho Czar’o manifesto was illegal, because , not submitted to the Senate. •' Ministers were indignant and declined - responsibility for tho measure as calculated to produco the gravest consequences, and shsre wore tenders of resignations. - - The Cz&r finally signed a rescript, which they drafted. St. Petersburg thereafter , was quiet, though tho strikers maintain their demands for their comrades’ release.