TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1622, 9 December 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

By telegraph, Press 'Ass’n, Copyright St. Petersburg, Dee. 7. Assinin declares bo obeyed the Revolutiouary Committors instructions to »e----vongo Sakhatoff’s cruel treatment of tbo "fi 1 #- it St. W«te|t“ roeiguod on tbo ground that tho Czsrs manifesto overlooks tbo army. , Landlords are besieging tho Plants Bank at Moscow, offering to util their properties at two-third 3 of their. value, totalling two millions sterling. Tbo law officers roleased tho psaeant chiefs, thoro being no grounds for prosecution. Tfce Prefect ro-uirrs'.od thorn.

A REIGN OF TERROR.

EXTENSION OF THE REVOLT,

By. telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 10 10 p.m., Dec 8. I St. Petersburg, Doc. 8.. Owing to peasant terrorism in Livonia many fled, abandoning their homos and at Astrakhan decided to subdivide tbo land, each taking four acres. They are also cndosvoring to seize State forests. Troops have beon sent to AetrakSimilar news has been reccivod from Kazan. . , Loyal troops aro in possession ot toe central and commercial quartor of K lß n> I Insurgents arc in possession of the Pickorsky quarter and the fortress. A thousand sappers and otheie have jomeu ] tho strikers, who have barricaded the | streets. t Insurrectionary freops aro masters ot | Novorossiysk, which has been subdivided into a military district. Perfect order is maintained. . , Mutineers Ec'zed tbo Ekaterinodas arsenal and 16,000 rifles. A portion was distributed loca'ly, and tho remainder aent to arm the proletariat at siyskFather Gapon has fled to Parts. A revolt has occurred at Elizabethpol, Reoeived 10.20 p.m., Deo 8, The Government loss by the ruilway strike totalled four millions sterling in passenger traffic. The Government loss by tbo t4°graph and postal strike was £IO,OOO daily.

GREAT SLUMP ON THE BOURSE

135--;—. 1 FEAR OF INSURRECTION IN MOSCOW.

By telegraph, Press Ass’s, Copyright Recoived 10.20 p.m., Dec 8. St. Petersburg, Dec. 8. A great slump on the Bourse occurred on Wednesday. Four per cents aro at 74. Many banks aro in a most precarious condition. Six hundred thousand roubles are daily withdrawn. Count do Witte’s lack of inventive resource and failure to devise heroic measures demanded on all sides has produced despair among his staunchest supporters aid resentment among others. There is a growing fear that the troops in Moscow will rise.

ANOTHER MASSACRE OF JEWS,

MURDER OF GENERAL SAKHAROFF APPROVED

By telegraphy Press Ass’n,. Copyright

Received 12.13 a.m , Dee 9.

St. Petersburg, Dee. 8. Hooligans at Kieff, led by the “ black hundred,” and maddened by vodka, massacred 1500 Jews, students, and reformers on Monday and Tuesday nights. Bankers at Warsaw warn Count do Witte of closing unless the telegraphist strike is soon ended. Russian opinion tacitly approves of General Sakharoff’s murder owing to wholesale knoutings of villagers and nameless outrages perpetraled by drunken Ooseaoks upon women under tbo eyes of the Czar’a pacific poisants in B:elostok, K’eff, and Kharkoff. Ekelarinoslav railway men have struok in sympathy with the telegraphists.