REBELLION IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1594, 4 November 1905, Page 2

REBELLION IN RUSSIA.

STRIKE LIKELY TO TERMINATE

SERIOUS FIGHTING.

By, telegraph, Piosa Afis’n, Copyright

London, Nov. 2.

Router's correspondent at Kazan ro« ports that apparently on tbo nights of thp 28th and 29th Cossaoks and police wore lot loqbo and perm'ttod to kill and plunder at will. They pillaged many shopß and fired indiscriminately whorover they saw a light in windows. Peaoeablo pedestrians woro shot down, and one street was convortod into a Bhambles. Pools of blood dyed tho snow I opposite tbo ecolosiastioal buildings. The population are wild with rage. Tho municipality protested to tho Governor, who ststo.l that tbo Chief of Police had resigned. Ho confinod the Cossacks to barraokß, authorised tho oivio military to preserve order, and released political prisoners. The orowd romoved arms from the polioe headquarters for the use of the town militia. All Finland has revolted, though the crowds are most orderly. The GovernorGeneral promises that the troops will not interfere with peaceable people. The Social Democrats demand the immediate summoning of a constituent assembly baaed on universal suffrage. Reuter’s Agency reports that the Strike Committee have decided to terminate tho general strike to-morrow. St. Petersburg, Nov 2. General Trepoff is suspeotod of trying to trip Count de Witte, alternately tolerating and suppressing disorders. A crowd at daybreak serenaded the Prefect of Moscow with dirges in reminder of the slaughter of unoffending citizens. Troops suddenly appeared, and, were preparing to fire who,a General LudnuiU, showing his uniform, threw himself in front of tho rifieß, during them to fire, and thus prevented a massacre. ; ,t Authority In many towns in Finland l has been transferred to a. citizen guard. Finnish flags and esoutoheons have ro- [ placed the Russian on the publio build-

ings. - ; • ;• Anti-Semitio outbreaks' ooourred at Niji, Novgorod, Restoff, Kherson, and I Vitebis. Many were killed. Tbe Chief of Police at Poltava summoned a deputation ,to witness the liberation of political prisoners. : The Cossacks suddenly attacked. the deputation, killing some and severely wounding 28. Fatal encounters with the military ooourred at Bidostok and Minsk. P There have been many collisions at Moscow between revolutionaries' and socalled patriots/ One of the pro-Govern-mental partisans, a general leading a socalled loyalist procession, organised by the polioe, was shot dead. a .

MORE EXCESSIVE MEASURES.

GERERAL TREPOFF AGAIN IN FAVOR,

By, telegraph, Press Aes’n, Copyright

Reoeived 11.22 p.m., Nov. 8. St. Petersburg, Nov 3,

So far Count de Witte has been unable to complete his Cabinet. There has been a reorudeßcenco of repressive measures.

St. Petersburg universities and academies have again been dosed. Demonstrations are forbidden. Cavalry ride the people off tbe pavements, using sabres without the slightest provocation. The outbreak of police and militia violence is attributed to Court reactionaries and bureaucrats, who are seeking to convince that concessions mean exoessos all over Russia.

Reports have been reooived of further sanguinary outbreaks, Jews being' ! the principal victims of mob violence. The military never prevent attacks and are frequently participating therein. There is a widespread belief that General Trepofi has regained the ascendancy over Czar. Moscow railwey employees, after resuming, again struck yesterday.

1 j , London,; Nov. 8. A late St. : Petersburg telegram states that the strike committee has decided that the general strike will end. at noon today. • ’ -

STREET FIGHTING AND LOOTING

ATTACKS ON JEWS.

By telegraphs Press Asa’n B Copyright Received 12.12 am, Nov. 4. St. Petersburg, Nov. 3. The press censorship has been abolished at St. Petersburg. It is intendod to grant an amnesty to all ■poli.ical prisoners excepting those guilty of murder and attempts at murder. Government appeal to the people to be patient. A new regime has begun to pre» pare an enormous amount of legislation necessary for administration measures; meanwhile the old laws mast remain in force though applied in the spirit of the manifesto. Street fighting and looting, especially in the Jewish quarter, continued at Odessa most of Thursday until martial law was proclaimed. The Governor threatens to use field guns to destroy any house from which a shot has been fired.

Received 12.20 a.m., Noy. 4. Troops at Odessa are using numerous machine guos. Riots continue, though in a' mitigated form. !

Jews exhibited desperate bravery, and suffered terribly. Students killed 100 Oossaoks by sniping and bombs. Cossacks at Rostoff joined the mob in shooting and pillaging Jews. Many were killed. A orowd at Kherson oarrying the Czar's portrait and national flags first pillaged Jewish shops and then attacked the cathedral. The Black Sea fleet has arrived at Sebastopol, with Admiral Birileff commanding.