TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1616, 1 December 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

MOIIHI .OP GOIBDS.

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright St. Petersburg, Nov. 29, Lioutonant Sobmidt, who was recently oasbiered owiog to revolutionary sympathies, commands tho cruiser Oiobakoff. It is feared at St. Petersburg that in the evont of a oonfiiot tho GovernmoDt troops Will be beaten.

The Novoe Kraia alone reports that tho revolt is collapsing. Other papers state that tho battleships Trisvialitolin and Rostielay have joined the mutineers. General Linievitoh expelled 160 agitators from tho army. Tho post and telograph employees at Moscow havo struck.

Tho St. Petersburg bourse haß been terribly shaken by tbe ovents at Sevastopol and tho reorudeseneo of the: .laljor crisis. Four per ooots dropped to 84. - Father Gapon has published his autobiography, wherein he unveils the oonditton'of modern Russia. . His arroßt has been ordered, Friends enabled him again to esoapo.

Sobmidt has threatened to bombard Sevastopol if the sailors now imprisoned are court-martialled.

Dnrnovo has ordered tbe arrest of the organisers of the Telegraphists’ Congress. The strike is goneral. Only St. Petersburg messages are received via Finland. It is stated that 180,000 workmen are idle at St. Petersburg and Moscow. Tbo recent assailants of officers at Vladivostok were former soldiers at Port Arthur, who .complained that they were I held in greater restraint than when prisoners in Japan. „A group of Caucasian citizens begged kOpuof> de Witto not to grant autonomy to Finland, Roland, Caucasia, and trans-

Oauoasia without reference to tbe drinqa,; einoe a majority of Russians were opposed to Count de Witte replied that oitizens would never submit to the Czar any meaeure tending to prodnoe separation of outlying countries. It would be an aot of luna,oy to take a hasty deeision whioh would' result in dismemberment of territory won with Russian blood. The initiative must only proceed from “ the duma, einoe the Czar wished all bis subjects to ODj'oy a peaoeful aod tranquil life. The Government were bound to respect and maintain tbe national characteristics of all sectionp so that all should find themselves at borne in Russia.

Two hundred and thirty soldiers have been arrested at the School of Electricity, St; .Petersburg, for demanding better treatment.

London, Nov. 29. Renter's Agency reports that two Giia'r’de-regiments at Bt. Petersburg refuse to arrest any of their comrades,

THE MUTINY.

A SEVERE FIGHT.

Bg telegraph, Presa A'es’n, Copyrigh

Received 9.54 p.m., Nov. 80.

St. Petersburg, Nov 30.

The union of railway men in Russia resolved to strike at the first sign ol mobilisation.

Troops and police-at Grodno struck. The Governor dismissed them-arid applied to St. Petersburg for troops to replace them.

Received 10.10 p.m., Nov. 80.

London, Nov 30.

■\ . The Standard’s St. Petersburg correspondent reports that, aooording to a telegram attributed to Chnknin, Admiral Sohmidt opened fire with the. Otohakoff and Kniaz Potempkin at three in tbe afternoon; The South Forts, a portion of the Black Sea Squadron, and a portion of the' Coast Artillery ' responded. The North Forts helped the mutineers. The sailors in the' barraoks went info the streets and opened fire on the infantry and Maxim Company. . M • The battle lasted twoiand a-half hours. The Otehakoff was pieroed and buret into flames. : r. The cruiser Dnieper and another vessel and several torpedoors were sunk. The Knaiz Potempkin was badly, bit, and has several boles in her sides. ' . . Sohmidt was mortally, wounded and Surrendered to Mininon’s vessels. The North’ Forts were taken at the bayonet by tbe Brest and Biolystok regiments. Half the town was demolished, Admiral Wirenius asserts that no such message was received as the editor of tbe Slavo asserts. He saw Ghuknin’s telegram at the Admiralty. A grave mutiny has begun at Libau.