TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1618, 4 December 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

MORE FIGHTING.

By, telegraph, Press Ass’u,. Copyright St. Petersburg, Doo. 2.

The Peasants' Union ia spreading enormously in tbo provinces. Villagers ovory' whero ondorso tho resolutions ot tbo Pea enuts’ Gongross. Agrarian rio's bavo occurrod near Mos oow.

Dieaffeoted bank roservists ot Nijni Novgorod parade tho streets, singing revolutionary sengs. Thoro is increasing military disaffection in other towns.

There aro 110,000 workmon looked out or havo struok at St. Petersburg, and 58,700 idle in Mosoow, owing to tho closing of factories. *

Fearing an explosion Gnukhnin sank a naming transport tug whioh bad 300 lorpodoos aboard. Tho Utohakoil is fioating, but is gutted. Captain Slavotohinski, of the 7th Naval Corps, waß killed, Tho field artillery bombarded the naval barracks at Soba c topol, whioh replied during tho night. Fifteen hundred, chiofly reservists, with nine quiekfirors of the BrtsS Regiment, occupied tho barracks early on Thursday. Tho torpodo boat, whioh was belioved to havo beon sunk bai boon found ashore.

Oo'onol Dumbadoe appealod to tho Brest Regiment to wipe out tho stain of tho recent insubordination by storming tho naval bar;aoks. Tho rrgiment, with cheers, obeyed, capturing 2000 mutinoors. Tho Czar has telegraphed forgiving tho

rogimont. General Trepoff has been appointed a member of the Counoil of tbo Empire.

It is reported that tbo mobilisation of the whole 450,000 Cossacks is intended.

Tbo mutineers at Sebastopol demanded a constituent Assembly and fulfilment ol the Czar’s manifesto.

The delivery of letters at St. Petersburg has been stopped. Male telegraphist'; expelled female telegraphists by mean 3 of obemioel fumes. The Czar has issued a manifesto abolishing martial law in Poland. A constitutional Senate has beon appointed in Finland, inoluding tbo men the late General Bobrikoff banished.

A COUP D’ETAT. ULTIMATUM FROM TROOPS IN VLADIVOSTOK, I- a By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 5.13 p.m., Dec. 3. St. Petersburg, Deo. 2. Twenty Guards’ oflioera and two Guards at Tenrekocselo have been arrested for oonspi aoy. An unconfirmed report is current that one of tho Grand Dakes is implicated in a plot against the Czar, There is a growing anticipation of a oonp d’etat to establish a strong military rule. The ooly troops still unsuspected of disaff ction are Cossacks. Father Gapon is now in Finland.

Troops who were S9at to Vladivostok from Japan notify that unless informed within five days when and whither they are to be moved they will destroy the town, ehippiog, and kill all cfiieers. The ofiioers are helpless, as the froops hold the forts.