TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1605, 18 November 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

A GREAT STRIKE,

“OVER THE CORPSES OF THE

PEOPLE.”

By; telegraph, Press Ass'n, Copyright

St. Petersburg, Nov. 16. Tho strike began at noon. factories have coaßed work. Goods traffio on the railways bos bean suspended. Probably suburban passenger traffio will bo suspended. Whon tbo St. Petersburg-German ex-pre-P, full of passongorF, was about to start, workmen placed trucks across tho line and virtually took charge of tbo station.

Ninety thousand workers had struck, many reluctantly, up to Tuesday evening. There wore 800 casualties at Vladivostok. Similar outbreaks of the army occurred along tho Siberian railway. At a meeting of the Central Labor Committees Vera Sossnlitoh, who presided,, deolared that the Czar’s Government was making its way over the corpses of tbo people. If necessary, the workers would again show their formidable power by a political strike, evincing solidarity similar to that of the Kronstadt mutineers and revolutionary proletariat. Let the warcry of the strikers be: “ Down with conrt-martial, the death penalty, and the state of war in Poland, and throughout Russia.”

Tho Warsaw railway men have been summoned as the workmen were uuwilliDg to give tho authorities a pretext for excesses.

Count • Lijszkiewio, leader of the National Democrats at Warsaw and Jant-

zen, another Democrat, prepaid a telegram for Count de Witte’s reply, demanding tho . Governor’s dismissal on the ground that the latter had misinterpeted tho Czar’B manifesto of freedom of speech and press and meeting. Both were exiled to Arab an gel. The Moscow railway mon have struck. They seat an ultimatum to the manager either to quit voluntarily or to be expelled. , The Czar’s aides have gone to Saratoff and Tchernigoff, owing to the peasants’ revolts. There has been great destruction of property at these plaoes. Pillagers drove cattle into a church in tbe SaratoS district. Peasants, incensed at tbe sacrilege, lynched 42 pillagers. Polish newspapers have republished Count de Witte’s statement to Polish politioians a few months ago that Russia’s Polish policy had always been conducted in agreement with Prussia.

Paris, Nov. 16. Le Matin describes tbe Russian army as a horde of 400,000, almost breadless and without olothes. London, Nov 16. Reuter's St. Petersburg correspondent says that in the matter of a general strike the Government have staked their all on the loyalty of the troops.

OPEN PREPARATIONS FOR FURTHER MASSACRES.

PEASANT RISING.

FATHER GAPON’S RETURN. telegraph, Fresa Axs’ii, Copyright Received 10,2 p.m., Nov 17. St. Petersburg, Nov. 17.

A ukase has been issued expressing the Czar’s gratitude to the troops at Odessa for their exemplary conduct during the

disturbances. It is regarded as a cruel mockery and ominous of a fresh outbreak, though the Prefect declares he is able to guarantee perfect order for Jews and others.

Hooligans at Kishnineff defy authority, and are openly preparing for fresb massacres.

Two sotnias of Oossaoks were powerlesß to suppress a peasant rising at Novoskvi. Prince Kosaatkin and bis wife were wounded, and their house burned after being looted. Reinforcements were urgently demanded. There are similar disorders at Tambofi and Poltava. \

Received 10.16 p.m., Nov 17. Father Gapon has returned here. Twenty-two thousand foreign passports were issued at Odessa iu a fortnight. Two thousand artillerists and infantry at the fortress at Sveborg on the 12th mutinied, compelling the commandant to promise to disband the reservist troops whose period of servioe has expired.

OPEN DEFIANCE. Bg telegraph, Presa Aea’n, Copyright Received 11.24 p.m., Nov. 17. St. Petersburg, Nov. 17. Many soldiers and sailors at St. Petersburg defy the officers, and avow open sympathy with the strikers. The military railway, battalion refuse to work on the Moscow railway. Seventy-two St. Petersburg employees finally refused an eight hours’ day, and prefer to dose their works. Two thousand workers in the cause of the revolution met at the Novi Theatre, St. Petersburg, and indignantly denounced the treatment Poland was receiving.

APPEAL TO STRIKERS. COUNT DE WITTE DENOUNCED

By; telegraph, Press Ails'n, Copyright Reoeived 12.2 S a.m., Nov 17. St. Petersburg, Nov. 17. Count de Witte, addressing the Strikers’ Association of Brothers, appealed to them to resume work, cease disorder, have pity on their wives and children, and turn a deaf ear to mischievous counsels. He deolared that the Czar had ordered special attention to be devoted to tbe labor question, and therefore had appointed a Ministry of Commerce and Industry, whioh will establish jußt relations between masters and men. “ Give us time,” he said; “ I will do all possible to give heed to the advioe of the man who wishes yon well.”

The Counoil of Workmen’s delegates and many hundrods of the better class of workmen met to oonsider the reply. A speaker vehemently attacked Count de Witte, denouncing him as a partisan of I the ruling class, and declaring that such J as he was the chief oanse of so many widows and orphans among the laboring classes. It came badly from the authorities to affect such anxiety, which ' was intended to deceive the people, whose eyes, however, were porfeotly open. It was resolved to oontinue the strike' indefinitely. Reoeived 1.2 a.m., Nov. 13. The strike committee prevented a huge demonstration at St Petersburg.