REBELLION IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1592, 2 November 1905, Page 2

REBELLION IN RUSSIA.

STATE OF ANARCHY.

DISTURBANCES CONTINUE,

A GREAT PROOESSION,

CZAR ADVISED TO FLEE.

RUSSIAN FLAG DESTROYED,

By felegraph. Press Ass’ju, Copyright

AN ATTACK ON THE JEWS.

FIERCE FIGHTING EN3UEB.

By telegraph, Press ‘Atra’n, Copyright Heoefived 10.29 p.m., Nov. 1. St. Petersburg, Nov. 1. Officials "profess to be unaware of a mutiny on the Black Sea fleet and the murder of the admirals. Odessads frantically delighted with the manifesto. 1 Twenty thousand citizens demanded a j speeoh from the Governor, who diplomatically oalled for cheers for the constitution, promising to liberate all arrested by Cos- I sacks. I Later 50 workmen, supposed to have I been dieguised as policemen, assisted roughs to plunder Jewish shops. When the crowd tried to assist the shopkeepers, I the Oosßaoks charged, killing and wound- I ing many. Nine hundred students then I procured arms, and fierce fighting oon- I tinues, I

All the factories, theatres, and sohools have been olosed at Reval. Many wero killed or wonnded at Lodz. Owing to the Government ordering the troops to mercilessly suppress revolutionary meetings, id. Pobiedonostneff, procurator of the Holy Synod, has resigned. Beoeived 10.40 p.m., Nov. 1. I

Counts de Witte appears oonfident that ha will be able to guide the nation tranquilly in tbe paths of constitutionalism. The Cabinet tentatively consisted Prince Alexieß, M. Oblonsky, Minister of the Interior; M. Romanoff, Ministor of Finance; Kone, an able jurist and Senator ; Justice Krosovsby, President of the St. Petersburg Duma. Oount de Witte holds no portfolio . At present Ministers of Foreign Affairs, War, and Marine remain uochsnged.

Coesacks and pol : ce rereot the manifestoThoy provoked disorders at Odessa Pultvana, and Kishineff, killing many' without provocation.

M ANIFESTO REGARDED AS AN AVOWAL OP WEAKNESB.

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 11.30 p.m., Nov. 1. St. Petersburg, Nov. L The portion of the manifesto commencing with tbo words “ Abstain from any in.

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London, Oct. 31. Beutor’s St. Poteraburg correspondent roports that tbe Czar has charged Count do Witte with the duty of arranging unification of the work of tho various Ministers of State, preliminary to sanctioning a draft law creating a Council of Ministers. The Times’ St. Petersburg correspondent etatos that only a fow thousand people aro aware of the manifesto. It is doubtful whether the revolutionary loaders, who demand universal suffrage and a constituent assembly, will be satisfied with tho Czar’s concessions.

. Tbo omployoos of tbe Imperial Bank struck, but resumed when they hoard that tbo Czar bad signed a constitution. . Russian and other securities have improved on tho Stock Exchange as the result of the Czar’s manifesto. St. Petersburg, Oot. 31. Foreign financiers return to St. Petersburg in a fortnight to resume loan negotiations.,

In order to maintain communication between tbe oourts at Potsdam and Peterhoff, the Czar has accepted tbe Kaiser’B offer of tbe services of the third and fifth German torpedo boat divisions to convey despatches dbring the strike between Memel and Peterhoff.

There has been muoh fighting at Lodz, where Polish, and Jewish Socialists resolved to continue the strike. .

A company of infantry refused to fire at a students’ procession. The soldiers were arrested., ■> s

Incendiarism is rampant in Moscow. The soldiers encamp in the preoinots of the Kremlin, as they are afraid to occupy their barracks lest they are burned. Bauds of roughs are plundering deserted private flats. Only large detachments of troops dare venture in the streets.

Although Odessa is slightly quieter, Cossacks oontinue, to brutally ill-treat peaceful residents and to pillage their homes. They beat some people to death. They drag women and children to prison, subjecting them, to shooking treatment, They have .frequently fired upon funeral prooessions of their own victims, also upon Red Cross detaohments, The Czar’s manifesto was received with shouts of joy at St. Petersburg, Warsaw, and elsewhere, but , workmen are irritated at the absenoe of an amnesty. Demonstrations were made at St. Petersburg, there being all-night processions with red flags, the crowds cheering the manfesto. •

Count de Witte’s recommendations to the Czar emphasised tbe need for equalisation of all Russians before the law, irrespective of religions or nationalities. .. Sixty-tbree youths and girls are missing at Odessa.

A bomb was .thrown at troops guarding the Technological Institute at St. Petersburg. It killed several- Cossacks and wounded others. . .Later.-r-The. strikes on the Mosoow-St. Petersburg, Moseow-Kazan, and MosoowArohangel railway lines have terminated.

By telegraph, Press Copyright Received 9.45 p.m., Nov 1. St. Petersburg, Novi. Poland ' continues in a wildly excited state.

The Warsaw-Vienna railway employees remain on strike until the’ Government grants self-government to Poland, an amnesty to political prisoners, and permits the use of tbe Polish language. ; Cossacks aud Laueers attacked and dispersed a great revolutionary demonstration in tbe streets of Warsaw. Citizens are forbidden to leave their homes after 8 p.m., under pain of arrest.

The miners in Sosnowice district, Warsaw, have struck. They compelled the compositors to stop setting the Czar’s maniteßto and to set revolutionary songs, whioh they Bang in -he streets. ' Troops at Helsingfors refused to fire on the people.- , A great meeting of citizens demanded the oossationof Russian oppression; "'' .There is a convocation of the Diet to prepare a scheme for a freely elected national assembly; also freedom of the press. The Governor-General assured the citizens that he had just received a telegram abrogating all dictatorship , decrees and summoning the Diet.

POLICE AND TROOPS COMPELLED TO SALUTE.

Received 9.51 p.m., Nov 1. St. Petersburg, Nov 1. ; An immense procession of workmen,, men and schoolboys, carrying red flags, demonstrated at N'evski Prospect, singing the Marseillaise and revolutionary songs, compelling the polios to remove their caps and the troops to salute the flags. The procession stopped at the point of the massaore on " Red Sunday," uncovered, and sang a hymn for the dead with impressive effect. Outside the offices of .the general staff they again sang a dirge. Outside the university, which was j decorated with red flags, the orators proclaimed the triumph of the proletariat and the downfall of autocracy, and demanded the withdrawal of troops from the capital, the release of all political prisoners,'and I the retirement of General Trepoff. The police and troops did not interfere I even when the Emperor was oontemptu- I ously advised to abdioate and retire to I London, or when the crowd destroyed the I Russian flag parried by patriotic demon- I tral ore. |

torference. in elections to th. duma 11 to tho words “ would S, tho Empire ’’ were rooonj raado by Count do Witte to t’f approved of them, for the guidf. Government.

London, The Times’ Bt. Petersburg c. deni says that the Constitution c t late. It has fallen fiat, and body except the very moderate. Tj® of 8t I’ctotsburg people regard the®* fosto as an avowal of weakness and® citement to further agitation.

(Par It.M.S. Sonoma, at Auqkh • - New York, Oc .A. cablo to the. Sun from Mt\ says:—' ' " "f. This bas been a day of riotirT bloodshed. Bbortly after noon the fon the Everskvy boulevard aejl threateuiug proportions. Polios am tary (borso and foot), with Cossaoki}fully preparod. £■ A pitched battle took plaoe. TheS and, carbines of the. troops, whb|) volleys point blank at the people met’ by the crowd with stones aU volvers. It is impossible to estims 1 * casualties, as according to custom in atoly after the mob was disperst; streets were cordoned and the dee

wounded were removed into yardsj the gates wore closed. After tbe fighting was over to-day aDd youths and men and women . dragged into the Precept’s courtyard) gates of which wore then closed. Th upon began wbat is known as a" lessor intellectuals. Scores were taken to a 1 stable, along tbe sides of whioh wt drawn up two lines of picked troo mostly Cossacks. The victims were cd. , to run tbe gauntlot. There were fifty tn on eaoh side, who brutally struck "the with whips and butt ends of rifies. T victims were forced to run until the, dropped fainting or dead. They wer then pioked up aud removed to the priso infirmary or mortuary. The unfortuuat creatures were taken straight fromth street to this peouliar Russian form e execution, without the possibility of offe: ing defenoe, or hearing an aceoeatio against them.