TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1610, 24 November 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

A NEWSPAPER BEIZED.

By telegraph, Press Ans’n, Copyright

St. Petersburg, Nov. 22, Referring to the disaffection of troops at St. Petersburg, an officer of tho Guards states that tho workmen int-rveniDg on behalf of tho Kronstadt mutineers produced a doploroblo effect on the moralo of tbo soldiers, oausing tho oommander-in-chief tho greatest anxiety. Other officers fear tho army will join the strikers if the mutineers are sontenesd. . • Count do Witte threatens to dismiss officials joining unions, i Tho now Admiralty yards on tho Nova have been oloecd, tho workmen insisting on eight houre. The strikers seized the Novoe Vromya offices on the night of the 18th and brought out a Sunday issue. They distributed 35,000 copies of seditious propaganda. They retained possession of the I office for 12 hours. Owing to the workmen quitting the I ohief indnstria! worka at St. Petersburg I after working eight hours, the employers arc determined to oloso a fortnight hence unless 60 hours a week is resumed. I Tho chairman of tho Peasants’ Congress I declares that the peasants recognise their I irresistible strength, and are now organising for victory. Nothing is able to preI vent them getting the land and power into tbeir hands. I A Gorman student who escaped from I Vladivostok states that 50,000 soldiers I mutiniod and murdered 1600. No Japan- , ese were molested.

PILLAGE AND INCENDIARISM. By telegraph* Pros* Ass’n,. Copyright Received 12.40 a.m., Nov. 24. St. Petersburg, Nov. 28. Despite tbe Government’s prohibition, post and telegraph employees meet at Moscow on the 28th to demand “genuine constitution. Otherwise they will Btrike throughout Russia. . Advices states that the Volga is at present a terrible piotnre of agrarian pillage and incendiarism. Agitators in ‘he disguise of officials proclaimed that the Czar ordered tbe peasants to seize the land.