TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1609, 23 November 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

FRESH OUTBREAKS FEARED. 03jj telegraph, Fresa Asii’n, Copyrl^ St. Petersburg, Nov. 21. Bight hundred boohgans at Odessa throaten vengeance o,l w vTnto < testifying against them f.n tbe inqui y i the outrage. 1 There are persistent rumors that • , garrison is organising a fresh oa *“ c ?"' '’ i The British Consul has demanded a ooi lootive passport from Britishers who le unless they are assured of adequate pro lection being afforded. The Foreign Consuls at Warsaw have applied to tne authorities for protection for their comTwo jews have been killed at Warsaw for refusing to contribute S2O to the Socialistic fund. Temporary Governors have beon_ap pointed to ten provinces of Poland. They have issued most drastio anti-Polißb aecreos, calculated to provoke disturbances. The right even of private meetings is denied, and owners are held responsible for outrages upon troops from houses. ~ Improved rations befog served out to the men prevented a military outbreak at Odessa. . , „ Tbe Peasants’ Congress at Moscow threatened to seize the lands next spring unless given a free hßnd in developing the Zemstvo Congress. Prince Trubetskoi warned the oongress that unless it rallied round the Government and the manifesto, the white terror of reaction was certain to recur. Prince Dolgorouff and others opposed any association with the Government.. - Russian extremists have threatened a generetl strike in January, but there is a growing oonviotion that Count de Witte will bo able to execute reforms. Prinoe Oidenburges’ estate' at Vorouzh has been devastated. , - Four more Cossack regiments, making 17, have been sent to Nooherkask.

London, Nov. 21. A Reuter’s message declares that Bus 1 sian officials in Poland havo. been per' mitted to organise mass meetings to in salt the Poles and denounce the proposali for self-government.

MASSACRES CONNIVED AT.

life telegraph, Preen !A*3’n, .Copyright 1 Received 9.66 p.tn., Nov. 22. - St. Petersburg, Nov. 22. The Government have instructed officials conducting the inquiry at Odessa to arrange to exculpate the troops and polios and throw tbe blame on hooligans. No polioemen participating in the massacm have been discharged, but nineteen for preventing the outrage have been transferred to obsoure posts. Similar action has been adopted in regard to outbreaks at Kishineff and Elisabestsgiad,