TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1626, 14 December 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

FIGHT WITH MUTINEERS. Ilg telegraph, Press Aus’n, Copyright Sr. Petersburg, Dec. 12. Macdowilofl, arriving at llarbio, sent men to burn several barracks and expo tho mutineers. The latter mingled with the terror-stricken inhabitants. iho cavalry slaughtered 300, mostly rautinoerß. Tho latter wore roinforced, and used rna chino guns, killing many of tbo cavalry. The trouble had resumed when refugees wbo brought the details left Harbin. Two sotaias of Cossacks at Mo:cow have domanded permission to return to their homes. . , . The troops at Warsaw again, refuse! to firo on a revolutionary procession. Two hundred eoldiors at Kushka, Transeaspia, attendod a railwayman's striko meoting, which decided to removo the military authorities from tho fortress and replaco them by revolutionaries. Tbreo ringleaders wore arrested. Who'esa'o arrests have been made at Moscow, including members of tho committee of tho Postal and Tclographio Union. _ Peasants in Livonia attacked tho protectors of estates. Then capturing a train they cuoapod with tbeir booty!! One thousand pounds in English gold and silver has been unoarthed at Kronstadt, which was to have been used for hospital purposes during the war. Tbo money has not bcco claimed.

STRIKE OF SERVANTS, COACHMEN AND CABMEN. By telegraph, Press Ass'u, Copyright Received 10.30 p.m., Dec. 13. St. Petersburg, Dee. 13. Count do Witlo's bold repressive measures compelled tho labor chiefs to dolay a general strike for a more convenient moment, and in the meanwhile to prepare an armed rising. Twenty thousand messages await despatch at St. Petersburg Telegraph Office. The banks still employ messengers. Frontier officers and men of all arms m Moscow, including Coisacks, decided to prepare a general list of tho garrisons grievances. All dome-tie servants, ccaobmca, ana cabmen at Warsaw have struck.