TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1606, 20 November 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

THE BTRIKE. Bjj telegraph, Press A&s’n. Copyright St. Petersburg, Nov. 17. I With tho hope of detaohiog peasants and I artisans from tho revolutionary movomont, I a ukase has boon issued fulfilling the Ozac’s promise to reduce peasants’ pay- I meats for the use of land by half next l January. It also abolishes ths ctbor_ half I in 1907. Tho total gifo is oco of 8$- million pounds. The ukaßO instructs the Agrarian Bank to facilitate tho purchase of private 1 estates. Ten thousand operatives in Moscow I have struck. Tho striko in St. Petersburg is sproadmg. Tho striko funds amount to £20,000. Thoro is a party in St. Petersburg who urge that the time for decisive action is not yet ripe. London, Nov. 18. The Times’ St. Petersburg correspondent statos that tho political etcike is unlikely to last beyond Saturday. Owing to a panio on the St. Petersburg Bourse, enormous amounts have been transferred abroad. Russian 3 per cents fell 4£ points in London. The Anglo-American Jewish relief fund has reached £124,000.

Paris, Nov. 17. _ St. Petersburg advices stato that Mini, iters intend to repeal martial law in Po and.

UNITED STATES TO THE RESCUE EXPECTED FLIGHT OF CZAR AND FAMILY, SOLDIERS AND SAILORS READY TO REVOLT.

By;, telegraph. Press Asa’n, Copyright I Reoeived 416 p.m.. Nor. 19. Washington, Nov. 18. A United States cruiser has gooe to Kronstadt to remove Amerioans and others, if neoessary. She wilt also remove the I Czar and family if he desires to seek safety, as it is doubtful whother the rebels would allow a German or French warship to pass the fortifications. St. Petersburg, Nov. 18. There is a great exodus from Moscow, I including Prinoo Mirski and family. Reoeived 4.80 p.m., Nov. 19. London, Nov. 18. The concessions to peasantry involve the sacrifice of an annual revenue of six millions sterling. A total remission of oyer 120 millions only covers land redemption purohused through the peasants’ bank. Other demands, involving the repurchase of private estates for division among the peasantry, are left to representatives to decide. It is not likely that anything will satiety the peasants except allotment. Reoeived 4.16 p.m., Nov. 19. St. Petersburg, Nov. 18. A bomb thrown from a house at Wareaw exploded some distanoe from a detachment of Cossacks, who thereupon fired 20 volleys, damaged the house, and searching, made two arrests. One hundred end twenty thousand have struck in St. Petersburg factories and workshops subjeot to Government inspection, and many others in factories not subject to such inspection. M. Krassowsky, President of St. Petersburg Municipality, presided at a meeting of 600 members of a new political party of moderates upholding the realisation of liberties embodied in the manifesto of the 80th October. It was resolved to support the Government, condemn the strike, and issue an appeal to workmen, The latter addressed an appeal to soldiers and sailors, urging them to make oommon oause with tho workers, who demand the release of soldier and sailor brethren at Kronstadt, and for the freedom of Russia. Received 4.30 p.m., Nov. 19. London, Nov. 18. ' The Standard’s St. Petersburg correspondent states that 25 Guards officers conferred with the revolutionary oommittee for four hours. They gave startling details of regiments ready to Bide with the people.

THE STRIKE ENDED. By telegraph* Presa A'sa’n,. Copyright Received 12.37 a.m., Nov. 20.

St. Petersburg,,Nov. 18. Workmen's delegates ordered the strike to end at noon.