REBELLION IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1595, 6 November 1905, Page 2

REBELLION IN RUSSIA.

By; telegraph. Prose 'A'#s’n, Copyright St. Petersburg, Nov 3. Tho Governor of Warsaw proclaims that certain elements in tho population are trying to overthrow the foundations of public order, obscuring general rojoioing on a great holiday ot freedom. Ho appeals to cultured Poles to give proofs of their political maturity by refusing to obey tho diototes of anarchy. He warns disturbers of the ponoo that tho Govommsnt possess a force to sovorcly repress anacohism. After the troopß on Thursday killed four and woundol 44 people, demonstrators retired behind barriers.

A Warsaw telegram to Count de Witte states that the troops are massaoriDg regardless of tho Czar’s guarantee of per. Bonal liberty. The people demand the withdrawal of the troops and the abrogation of martial law.

A three-mile procossion at Moscow followed the remains of Nioholas Barmaon, a reformer who was shot ia the riots. Revolutionaries kept order. The police were invisible.

A partial railway strike oontinuos, ehltiiy to prevent the sending of troops to Finland.

M. Kbilkoff is willing to prepare a soheme to regulate the railway men’s wages, but resists eight for ten hours a day and tbo union of anions.

Organisations of professional classes demand the withdrawal of troops from Bt. Petorsbnrg in favor of militia drawn from the troops.

Troops participated in pillage at Oladikavkas. Fifteen people were killed. The Conncil of workmen’s delegates at St. Petersburg suspended the political strike, which will be resumed in arms in 30 days unless the demands arc granted. Only newspapers ignoring the censorship are allowod by the workmen’s council to appear.' Two hundred bomb's exploded at Nikolaieff. All the shops were deetroyed. Wholesale looting ocoatied. There are heavy casualties.

Students and military at Odessa d

armed 5000 ruffianly loyalists, armed with revolvers, ou Thursday. Troops at Kiefl in an enoounter with demonstrators killed five and wounded 55. Hundreds have been masßaered at Kishinoff.

MURDER, FIRE AND PILLAGE. AWFUL MASSACRE OF JEWS. AN ORGY OF CARNAGE.

Bh telegraph, Pres* A'sa’n, Copyright Received 4.85 p.m., Opt. 5. St. Petersburg, Nov. 4. During thanksgiving services for the Czar’s manifesto, hooligans at Kishinefi pillaged and burnt most of the Jews’ quarters.

The authorities and troops were inactive. Shopkeepers’ resistance led to' an orgy ! of carnage. Telegrams describe the massacre as horrible.

All the hospitals, pharmacies, and hotels are full of wounded and mutilated. In the whole town of Nikolaefi bands of " patriot ” bandits were looting the Jewish houses and beating Jews to death, the authorities not interfering. Similar news comes from Sebastopol, Roatoffondow, and Elisabetgrad. The Czar has signed an amnesty ukase.

“ PATRIOTIC ” RUFFIANS

Bj telegraph, Press r A'«s’n ( , Copyright

Received 4.55 p.m., Nov. 5. St. Petersburg, Nov. 4. There is open war at Mosoow between revolutionaries and a Black gang of ruffians organised by monaohists in the interests of aulocraoy. Six hundred of the gang lay in wait for a procession returning from Banmann’s funeral, killing 12 and wounding 20. i The authorities profess to be unable to control these “ loyalists.” A similar gang at Tuer, armed, and paid by the police, exercise complete license. The statement that the strike will be suspended for a month la not confirmed. It is expected the Strike Committee will make an explanation on Monday when the details of the amnesty are known,

GREAT DAMAGE DONE.

By lelegraphjj Press 'A’ss’n,. Copyright Beoeived 5.35 p.m., Nov. 5. St. Petersburg, Nov. 5. Warships stationed at Reval have sailed for Helsingbors. Every Jewish shop was wrecked at Kishineff. Christians were not injured if they displayed the ikon (the Czar’s portrait) chalked aoross their doorways. Baron Zuenzbecg was wounded and his house looted. Millions of .roubles worth of property was destroyed, M. Klengels, the Governor, has been removed from office.^

A NEW MANIFESTO.

Bjr telegraph. Press Ass’n, Copyright Reoeived 12.69 a.m., Nov. 6. Bt. Petersburg, Nov. 6. The'Czar has issued a manifesto abolishing the dictatorship of Finland, and rescinding illegal enactments in force in I Bebrikoff’s regime, convoking the Finnish Diet, making the Secretary •of Stale responsible to the Diet • instead of responsible to the Czar. The amnesty extends to crimes against the Emperor and Imperial family, participators in strikes, founders of revolutionary seofet aooieties. Other convicts of 10 years’ standing will be transformed to colonists in Siberia; other sentences will be res duoed to half, and death penalties commuted to 15 years,