REBELLION IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1590, 31 October 1905, Page 2

REBELLION IN RUSSIA.

GARRISON ON SALT MEAT RATIONS. INCENDIARISM AND PLUNDER.

By, telegraph,, Press Asa’n* Copyright St. Petersburg, Oot 29. The Russian Government has postponed for the present loan negotiations until a ohongo in tho internal situation improves tho position of. its slock on tho foreign money markets. The garrison at St. P.tcrßburg has boon reduced to eating salt me'j* rations. Rifle shops and faotorie,' it Roval have been plundered. .., , Crowds arrivod with revolvers and prevented a brigade extinguishing an incendiary fire at a theatre in Mobcow. The Mcboow Gazette appeals to true Russians to essembio in tho churches, where they will be armed preparatory to attacking the strikore. The appeal is interpreted to moan that the authorities are holploss and hopeless.

THE OZAR GIVES WAY. INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM PARALYSED TALK OF AN ARMED INSURRECTION. By telegraph. Press Ass’n, Copyright Reoeived 9.16 p.m., Oot. 80London, Oot. 30.

The Daily Telegraph's 84. Petersburg correspondent • reports that at midnight, after many hours’ conference with Count de Witte, the Czar accepted a liberal programme, and appointed Count de Witte Premier. He resolved to • grant a representative assembly of a fully representative character. An Imperial manifesto is expected to day. This news was bronghb from .Petorhof by steamer, the telegraph and telephone lines being out. Fully a million and a half workmen have struok.

The whole industrial system is paralysed.

St. Petersburg, Oct 80. There are many reported disaffeotionß amongst the troops. . According to some reports tho strike ifl likely to terminate shortly, since the Socialists desire to avoid a collision with tho troops until December or January, when preparations for an armed insurrection will have been completed. 1.:., The day passed quietly at St. Petersburg.

CONFLICTS WITH OOSSAOKS.

ALARMING INCREASE OF HOOLIGANISM. ?

THREATENED FAMINE.

By telegraph, Press Am’n,. Conyrigh*

: Received 9.32 p.m., Oot. 80. St, Petersburg, Oot. 30. Crowds paraded in the streets, the troops dispersing those attempting to bold meetings. The university and all higher .educational establishments have closed.

There has been an alarming increase in hooliganism. Telegraphies oommunication with Moscow and Warsaw, has ceased, the crowds at Moscow threatening the lives of the operators. i .} /. ,* Oossaoks arrested 120 Socialists holding a meeting in a forest at Pabianice. Then oomrades tried to resoue them. Th_e Cossacks volleyed, killing one and wounaing 20, Famine threatens Lodz. Tho inhabitants are afraid to leave their homes. Manufacturers have left the town. All meetings and processions are dispersed. Strikers offer to restore the Moscow water supply if allowed complete control of the reservoirs, withthe right to suspend the supply at will. A great meeting of all classes urged the proseoution of an armed oonfiiot, and the oreation of a committee for publio safety.

STREET FIGHTING AT ODESSA. FRIENDLY ARRANGEMENT WITH TROOPS.

By telegraph. Press Aea’n, Copyright Reoeived 9.40 p.m., Oot. 80. St. Petersburg, Oot. 80. Street fighting commenced at Odessa on Sunday afternoon. After a huge orowd had compelled the closing of shops and restaurants, they seized the tramesrs and erected barrioades.

Cossacks fired, killing four and wounding 18. A deputation from other regiments asked the workmen not to fire, the troops promising themselves to shoot in the air if ordered to quell the diatnrbanoes.

A PASSIVE REVOLT.

A DIVISION AMONG MINISTERS. By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright f f Reoeived 11.16 p.m., Oot. 80. London, Oot. 80. The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent also states that the Czar resolves to abolish martial law throughout' the Empire. !

jThe Times’ St. Petersburg correspondent reports that the Government is inoapable of enforcing even a roaemblanoe of authority in view of the nation’s passive revolt,

Soldiers openly murmur at the degrading work expeoted of them. Three hundred sailors at St. Petersburg mutinied. ‘ ; . Ministers at Peterhof are divided. The Court is in revolt against the Czar. A majority of Ministers and General Trepoff advise an immediate constitution. Reactionaries advise a dictatorship under Alexis Igoatisff.

AUTHORITIES POWERLESS.

MOCK REPUBLICS PROCLAIMED

By telegraph, Press Aas'n, Copyright Received 11.22 p.m., Oct 80. j St. Petersburg, Oct 80. The situation in the provinoes is worse than in the capital. Mock republics have been proclaimed in several cities,' The local authorities in many places are so powerless that committees of safety have been formed to maintain order. The Finns are developing a eudden sympathy for Russians. There are only 4000 troops in Finland, sines 60C0 recently sent displayed such revolutionary leanings that they were recalled.