TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1625, 13 December 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

MUTINEERS RAID THE HOSPITALS

Ox telegraph, Press Ais’n, Copyright

St. Petersburg, Dec. 11.

Despite their pr m’ses, tbo Government havo rovived the worst forms of press restrictions and punisbmonts. Many editors declaro they will eu’pcnd publishing. Owing to tho arrest of Kronstaloff, president of thß Woikers’ Delegates, a general strike is considered inovitab'e.

Whon tho troops et Harbin learned they wero not to bo sent home until the spring, but would be compelled to face the winter cn scarce supplies of food and clothing, thousrnds paraded (he streets like banditt’, burning shops and plunder* ing. Some seize! the express trainJJor Vladivostok, arid raided Govotij®eM s’ores. They returned laden with plies of drink, several machine guns, many rifles, and much ammunition. A great orgy followed. When they were savagely drunk Harbin was sacked, the mutineers using machine guns freely. At Harbin drunken mutineers raided the hospitals. Comforts for the patients were oateD. Doctors and nurses were bound and thrown into snowdrifts.

Many Russian and Cbineso civilians have been murdered.

Some officers, sympathising with the mutineers opened the wheat and flour store house, which tho mob sacked and burned. All tho troops cheered at the sight of the burning city. General Madowilofl’a cavalry attacked the rioters, and a bloody fight at close quarters ensued.

M. Durnovo has issued a proclamation forbidding employees of the post and telegraph offices to form unions. The sum of £50,000 will be distributed amoDg the more deserving of those resuming work. The post and telegraph strike at Kieff has ended,

A railway men's meeting at Riga wbb interrupted by the arrival of machine guns, Tho Czar has thanked the Cossacks for the self sacrifice and loyal services in the war and for the preservation of order. Depositors have been officially warned of the risk of withdrawals from the Russian savings baoke. The latter is declared to be perfectly safe. General Sakharoff’e murderess were elegantly dressed. She presented a petition asking for redress for the pillage of property, and shot him through the lungs and heart.

SITUATION NOT YET “ TRULY DISQUIETING.” DE WITTE’S CALM ASSURANCE.

By telegraph. Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 9.35 p.m., Dec. 12. London, December.!®;, Count DeWitt9 informed the Daily ®legraph St. Petersburg correspondent that unless the elements of society offered moral resistance to the advance of anarchy aud co-operation with the Government in ex-:cutiDg the Czar’s manifesto, the situation would become truly disquieting and serious. Personally he still entertajned some hope, but the community was liable to bo hypnotised by revolutionaries, who were resolved, united, and persevering. If anarchy continued the nation might demand forcible suppression of the revolution. Then the manifesto might be repealed or suspended. In tbat event he would retire. The Czar consults Pobiedonostozsff on all questions of importance.

AUDACIOUS RAIDS BY PEASANTS By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 10 p.m., Dee 12, St. Petersburg, Dec.l2. Many Russian telegraphists have resumed.

Peasant raids are increasing in audacity. Churches in the Baltic provinces have been desecrated. Many landowners have been murdered.