TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1615, 30 November 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

SECRETARY OF AMERICAN EMBASSY ATTACKED.

By, telegraph', Press Asfl’hv Copyright St, Petersburg, Nov. 28. Tho employers at Lodz conseotod to pay tho strikors for tho tirno they woro idlo. Tho authorities vetoed tho payment. Ton thousand workmon at Moscow and 1000 maid sorvunts have struok.

Many offioors and soldiers at Harbin have boon arroated. Thoro ato. hundreds of arrests at Si. Petersburg, inoluding tho editor of a now satirical newspaper. Zomstvoists have donounood M. Garnovo for continuing M. Plehve’s and General Trepoff’s policy of repression. Count de Witto appoints a moderate Zomßtovist Bucoosaor.

Two ruffians on tho Bt. Petersburg boulevard attaoked Mr Brian, sooretary of the Amorioan Embassy. A orowd, encouraging, shouted " Down with tho ariatooracy." The Government dismiss all sailors with over four yoara' servioo, thereby ridding tho navy of discontents. It is feared thore is an increase of discontent ip tho provinces. A great meeting of all soldiers at Aehkabad, except Cossaoks, passed a resolution censuring tho troops for firing on the

people. The mutineers at Sevastopol held a review in honor of the Dowagor Tsaritsa, Regular purveyors furnish food, which has improved. An annod oompaDy is guarding the waterworks. Tho Cosareviioh’s Litovsky regiment has joined the Bralyetok mutineers. All are encamped . outside Sevastopol. More troops are expeoted from Odossa end Paolograd. Baron Mollor Sakomelsky.has assumed command.

It is unoortain how many of the Black Sea fleet have joined the mutineers. Tho Russ Btatos that the captains and officers arrested have beeo sent ashore. The cruiser Otobakoff certainly mutinied. Agrarian disturbances continue unabated in intensity. . While the dookere were unloading a gun runner at Poti harbor, on the east shore of the Black Sea, soldiers interfered. Severe fighting ensued, lasting many hourß. Ultimately tho soldiers seized a thousand rifles and 54 boxes of ammunition,

SPIRIT OF REVOLT. By telegraph; Press Ass’n, Copyright Reoeived 10 p m„ Nov 29, St. Petersburg, Nov 29. The spirit of rovoit pervades tho army from Vladivostok to the European frontier. The troops in Turkestan express their determination to espouse tho people's oause, Disaffection is rife in tho garrison at Kura. Troops in St. Petersburg demand ohanges involviog e Complete remodelling of the condition of service. Manchurian troops deolare that it is impossible to exist on peace pay and rations. The university at Odessa has been closed to prevent officers and soldiers holding a revolutionary meeting. The peasants’-revolt is extending to the Baltio provinces and Southern Members are forming unions and raising the ory “ Land and corn.” They threaten to take land by force, cease paying taxes, and exterminate all rural authorities. Reoeived 11.36 p.m., Nov 29. General Neplineff has been appointed commander-in-chief at Sevastopol. He attacks the 1 mutineers to-day unless they surrender. The mutineers hold all except two forts and the best part of the squadron, whioh refused to put to sea. , -