TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1621, 8 December 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

By telegraph,, Press Ass’n,. Copyrlgh Ss. Petersburg, Dec. 6. One thousand workers at St. Petersburg doclinod to listen to Social Democrat speeches, as the latter woro putting political cbimoras in the fore* front, instoad of economic salvation. The mooting resolved to form a monstor union in pursuance of lather Gapon’s advice. It urged Count do Witte to grant an amnesty to Gapon. The latter’s name was frequently boisterously cheered, leather Gapon was present at the meeting, but was not recognised. Similar meetings were hold elsewhere. The Novoe Vromya abandons the Government, and denounces prohibition of the Postal and Telegraph Union. While reviewing on Monday the Simon Onska Regiment, suspected of disaffection, the Czar passed bareheaded along the lines with a bishop. As the latter, in tho course of a religious service, sprinkled tho men with holy wator, the Czar delivered a vigorous speech. lie drank the regiment’s health. Military telegraphs maintain communication between Warsaw. Potershof, Tsarskoolo, and the .Government offices. The public are deprived of the use of the wires owing to the Government monopolising them. The State Bank employes have formed a union, and invito (provincial branches to join. Warsow telegrams are reaching Dantzic. M. Sakliaroff overruled the death sentences passed on engine drivers and other railway men who were leaders of the strikes. This has been done in response to the men’s ultimatum, thus averting a general strike. Count Gouchoff or Professor Migoulin is likely to succeed Count do Witte, whose Ministry the strikes are killing. Tee former proposes distribution of State domains among the peasants, and old age pensions for workmen. Ministers have endorsed an electoral law based on universal and | indirect suffrage, but the Council of the Empire is not likely to confirm it. Hooligans at Odessa on Sunday tortured and lulled Jewish children in the presence of the parents. The latter wore then massacred, and their houses looted. Their corpses were left in the streets. Nuns.were killed whilst offering to help the wounded. Cossacks charging, using their whips, and trampling on many, dispersed. a meeting of telegraph strikers at St. Petersburg. Three regiments at Riga have refused to undertake police duty. Father Gapon considers that eight hours without the employers’ consent at present is impossible of attainment. His union is designed to prevent the reported strikes, which are economic suicide.

A representative of Mendelsohn’s bank at Berlin is conferring with Count de Witte in connection with the proposed mortgaging of the brandy monopoly, yielding 50 million pounds sterling annually. The Socialist and revolutionary party resolved that Father Gapon’s measures would only bring disaster to

workmen. The agricultural congress at St Petersburg violently attacked Count de Witte, accusing him of leading Russia to destruction. There is. a petition to the Czar to supersede him at the end of the present trouble. Owing to enormous losses resulting from the suspension of the postal aud telegraph services private banks may cease operations until the services are resumed, London, Dec. 6. A truncated message from St Petersburg mentions that a court martial sentenced to death three Socialists, including a colonel’s son, for plotting against General Trepoff. Stockholm, Dec G. The Government send two warships to Russia to protect Swedish subjects and repatriate any who desire it, Paris, Dec. 6. M. Rouvier’s statement that payment of the Russian coupons is assured for two or three years has steadied the Bourses.

SHOOTING DOWN OF MUTINEERS

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 10.37 p.m., Deo. 7. St. Petersburg, Deo. 7. Two hundred mutineers at Kiefi: wero hemmed and shot down by Cossacks and loyal regiments in a narrow lane where they were between two fires. Washington, Deo, 7. M. Root was informed that St. Petersburg was quiet on Tuesday, but that the people are secretly arming.

A WOMAN SHOOTS A GENERAL.

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyrigh

Reoeived 1.5 a.m., Doe. 8. London, Deoembor 7.

The Daily Telegraph states that a woman belonging to a Revolutionary flying column designed to spread terror called at Governor Saratoff’s icsidenoo and asked to see General Sakhavoff, former Minister of War, who was at SaratofFs suppressing agrarian riots and traoquilising the peasantry. Tho woman fired threo shots with a revolver, kdling General Sikhuroff on tho spot. The flying c luam aims especially at abolition of capital punishment.

St. Petersburg, Dee. 7. Zouchkoff Shipoff and othur Moscow Conservatives, support universal suffrage, believing that it is universally demanded. Received 1.5 a.in., Deo. 8.

Many muticec s at Vladivostcck were executed.

Harbin is in flames. Tho ougin is similar to the .els affai-'. Tho whole Manchurian army is se thing with discontont. Received 1.14 a m , Dec. 8.

Some Cossacks j iued r.cont mutineers at Kieff.

Gunners and sappors at St. Petersburg ara dscontent-.d, and the ginijon is ripe for rnu.iny. There aie feieral mu!iue:rs £ia Warsaw and Vilna districts. The situation is critical. Adictrtois’iip is considered hopeless.