TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1541, 24 August 1905, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

FAILURE OF HARVEST.

HUNGER DISEASES RAMPANT.

FURTHER TROUBLES.

By ielegrapji, Press 'Ass’n, Copyrigh

St. Petersburg, August 22,, The harvest has failed in 25 provinces Of Russia. There is great distress, : and peasant risings are feared. ' ' f

Hunger diseases are. rampant in many towns, owing to the strikes.

The police imprisoned M. Milukoff (professor of Russian history at St. Petersburg University), Professor Dennisewitob, and 15 other reformers suspected of preparing for Liberal candidates .for'. tbe National Duma elections.* The reason given by the police was their arranging a meeting to condemn the manifesto. : A band of' Socialists trying to enter Warsaw met in a fierce enoounter with Cossacks. Ten Socialists wore killed and several wounded.

One thousand Kuben Cossaoks and Musselmen have migrated to Turkey. In one instanoe 800 threw down their carbines on parade, saying it was no part of their duty to act as police. They had already done too much dirty work.

CONTINUATION OF RIOTS.

A FIERY MEETING. !

ARMED REBELLION ADVOCATED. By telegraph, Press'Ass’n, Copyright Received 9.30 p.mi, Aug. 23. London, Aug. 23. The Warsaw correspondent of the Daily Express reports that largo bodies of Socialists are marching in a procession in the'streets, denouncing the Czar's manifesto arid distributing a proclamation. A fatal collision occurred between the rioters and soldiers. The Morning Post reports riotous demonstrations in Finland, Oourland, Reval, Kiofi, Rostofi and Tifiis.

Received 10.0 p.m., Ang. 23. St. Petersburg, Aug. 23. While the Mobcow Municipality was sitting privately in a small hall drafting a resolution to be submitted to'Czar 200 of the public in the gallery of the larger oouncil hall cheered fiery speeches amongst themselves, denouncing the Czar’s manifestd on the Duma project, with aoeompauying cries of " Down with the aristocracy!’’ 11 Long live the Constituents’ Assembly 1" The. Marseillaise was sung. Some speakers reoommended armed rebellion. Many quitted the building as a mark of disapproval.

When M. Galitzin entered the building he read the manifesto, which was received in dead silence. It was resolved at M, Galitzih's instance, with only one dissentient, that the Czar’s noble purpose is realisable only under conditions'guaranteeing freedom of speech, pf the press, of meetings of the union, and inviolability of the person. The resolution' also reoommended an amendment of the Duma scheme in order to restore tranquillity, adding that the Duma Bhould be based on universal suffrage with full legislative right, : , £• .