TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1596, 28 October 1905, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

A TERRIBLE STRIKE. PEOPLE FAMINE' STRICKEN. STATE OF ANARCHY.

By; telegraph, Press Ass’n, Couyright r St. Petersburg, Oot 26. 1 Fifteen persons wore killed ond 26 injured in a conflict with the troops at_a demonstration at Ekaterinolia, The strikers seized a train, and travelled from station to station, plundering Bnd' destroying buildings- . The strikers had an affray at Nikolai station with engine-drivers wishing to j resume work. Several were killed and wounded, - , Warsaw has been isolated. A meat ana coal famine is threatened. Trade with the seaports is being gradually paralysed. ',u The Odessa trains have been stopped, and it is expected those at Kieff will be stopped also. At an immense pioeting of students and workmen at St. Petersburg, revolutionary speeches were made urging an armed rising. , ~ . ’ . Editors at Bt. Petersburg are discussing the advisability of publishing all news, ignoring tho censor. , Count de Witte, receiving a deputation of the Working Men’s Congress, stipulated that it should bo unofficial, as he was not empowered to aooept addresses. Some of their demands wero nnrealisable in any country with a constituent Assembly. At present it was impossible to secure universal suffrage. It give pre-eminence to the wealthy, enabling them to influence votes. There wa,s not a cultivated man In the whole world favorable to universal suffrage. fie added that freedom of the press and meetings would 1 shortly be- granted, and martial law on the railways abolished. He advised cessation of the strike and elaboration of pacific conditions. Count de Witte told the deputation that the State must repress, revolt, or a civil war between the . people and the strikers must be proclaimed. A civil war, he said, had already begun in Moscow and Kharkoff. This, probably refers to the disorder in those cities; and to the famine prioes, , which in their turn are the result of the ; strikes. Count de Witte added that possibly the | Government would fall, but the educated | olassee who were responsible for-the . struggle would go down in the general ; disaster. A supreme Government would I have no doubtful, disorderly elements. If they wanted to win any real good, the railway men must terminate the strike. ‘ A oongress of railway workers having ; heard the report of the depu'.atiou, a dele- | gate remarked: “ The bureaucracy will give us nothing; we must take what we want.”' The congress resolved to watt the j result of an interview with Prince ‘ Khilikoff, Minister of Ways and Comi munioations. . ■

London, Oct 26. The Times’ Bt. Petersburg correspondent states that the inhabitants are becoming panic-stricken,fearing the downfall of the Government and proclamation,of mob role. . A later message states that plundering has been committed in St. Petersburg, and the police are hurriedly directing house porters to close the doors. Three thousand passengers are strikebound at Moscow. The train authorities are finding them lodgiag since they: are unable to return to their hotels. Three uncontrolled locomotives were started at full Bteam along the rails and did' muoh damage until they were wrecked. Traffio to Germany has been stopped. Tradesmen at St. Petersburg are trying to indues carters, porters and butchers to attack the strikers.

A mutiny was attempted on the battleship Katherine, also at the fortress at Sebastopol. . Five hundred arrests have been made.

FURTHER DISTURBANCES. By telegraph, Press Aea'n, CogyjSght Received 12,56 a.m., Oct. 28. St. Petersburg, Oot 27. A ukase has placed General Trepoff at the head of the St. Petersburg garrison. The Counoil of Ministers recommended the Czar to establish a Cabinet of Premiers under the title of President Counoil, with the right to propose candidates for Ministerial posts, exoept Foreign Affairs, War, Marine Minister, or Court. Count de Witte, appointed with wide powers, summoned the Council, anddeoided to immediately grant freedom of the press and the right of meeting. Cars filled with arms and ammunition arrived at the Finnish railway station, St. Petersburg. They were emptied before the polioe came to take possession. No arrests were made. Milk carts at the same terminus were prevented from starting for town, the polioe not interfering with the strikers. Many quarters in St. Petersburg are without bread or milk. General Trepoff ordered all provision shops to re-open; otherwise shopkeepers will be deported within 24 hours. Troops are quartered in every, part of the pity, Cossacks and infantry patrolling. Workmen’s meetings oontinue in different, quarters.

j Reoeived 1.16 a.m., Oot. 28. 3 Advices from Sebastopol state that in- ■ oendiariea burnt the battleship Kniaz > Potemkin. Patrol infantry at Warsaw refused to i mount guard in the street. Coal in Lodz is at 20 roubles per' ton. Received 1.28 a.tn„ Oot. 28. | The majority of the Ministers favored immediate constitution. The minority , seoured Count de Witte’s appointment. It is doubtful if his Liberal programme will be of any avail now.

uo ui any avail now. . Another version of Count de Wife's reply to the deputation is that he said universal sdffrage would lead to bribery andigivß capitalists the power instanced in Amerioa, and adds: “If the famished people in Moscow and ;other cities ats lacked the strikers and the Government fell in the middle of the riot, the working class would rule.’’ His hearers remained . unmoved. The railway line to Finland is the only railway workiog. - Sir F. Hardingo,, British Ambassador, has sailed. The strike has since extended, dookers, soameD, and steamboat traffic at Kronstadt has been suspended. Received 1.6 a.m,, Oot. 28. Seven thousand workmen mot at Moml;

coven moueaua worumen met at Nevsk works. Cossacks aitackiag them wounded 100. Stones injuted oae'officer and seven Cossacks. The railway bridge over the Obvoduy Canal, South St. Petersburg,has been destroyed. Workmen at the new Admiralty works at St. Petersburg, whore the new vessels Bayan and Pallada and two others are under construction, struck; likewise another naval yard. The leaders of the Soolal Democratic parly have organised the sale of arms to strikers, 26 cartridges to each rifle. The Ministry have confirmed estimates intended to improve the railway men’s conditions of service and wages.

wwx4-.av.wuc OOiyiUU MUU VYtfgUd. Revolutionaries met at the University of 8». Petersburg, ond announced the formation of a Provincial Revolutionary Government at Kharkoff. The Governor of Kbarkoff has been arrested.Collections were made at St. Petersburg University in suppoit of an armed rising, and an infaitry division has been added to the garrison.

Reoeived 1.16 s.m., Oot, 28. The infantry volleyed on strikers at Zquierz. A number were billed and wounded. Diajoons, charging and volleying, dispersed 4000 workmen parading Pabtanioo ufth red flags. Two werß killed and fourteen wounded, ■ Strikers have compl-to mastery of the munioipa'i-.y'of Kurtn Reoeived 1.28 a.m. Oot. 28. At a fsw rao'ti gs at St. Petersburg Univt. sity many offices and eoldiers were present. Several of the former spoke fearlessly of freedom. Other speakers mads violent denunciation of the Czar. The bureaucracy invoked a protest, but authorities hesitate to uee fomo. I It is reported at Kharkoff that many I have beet) killed,