TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1627, 15 December 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

GERMANS AT IUGA PROTECT

THEMSELVES.

By, telegraph, Press Ass’A, Cooy right

St. Petersburg, Dec. 12.

Gorman rieidenls at Riga organised a regiment for mutual protection, and imported 1200 Mauuor rides, Thoy contieo'ed all houses in Iho Gorman suburbs with electric uiarrns and piorctd fie will's of tbo houses, otiabling the inmates to movo fiom house to houso without using the streets. Thoro ao 100,000 troops round the Czar’s Palace at Tsurkoseolo. Four hundred and seventeen Oatbol c clorgy in Rutsia Poland Irosolved to p opagata tho doetrino of Christian democracy, and to demand autonomy for Poland, with a ballot and separato Parliament Refugees in Galicia report that General Sakbaroff’s murderer was a locksmith’s upprentico, disguised as a woman. Revolutionists, rorcuing him, onablod him

to escape. Tho Madowilofl’s cavalry stood their ground horoica’ly, at Harbin, and the mulinoors wore routed. General Lioie-* vitch urgos repatriation of tbe troops. London, December 13.

Father Gapon, interviewed, said further revolutionary violence would needlessly causo a reaction. Tho people wore not ready for fu l emancipation. . Tho education of tho masses was insullicion t. Throe hundred and fourteen caaos of French cartridges, labtdled hardware, consigned to Finland, have boon slopped at Copenhagen,

MURDER OF A GERMAN MILL-

OWNER.

By telegraph, Press Ass’h, Ccpyrigh

Received 10.14 p.m., Deo. 14,

St. Petersburg, Deo, 14. Twclvo hundred Cossacks have beeD sent to tho Baltic provinces, where chaos reigns. A Governor-General with plenary powers will bo appointed. Roughs looted tho shops at Lodz, Workmen in factories, armed with revolvers and iron bars, rushed into tho streets aud dispersed tbe rioters, injuring many. Tho Railwaymon’s Union at' Moscow refuse to carry Government mails if the railway telegraphists are punished for refusing to transmit Government messages. The German owner of a great Bpinning mill at Warsaw has been murdered at tho instance of the Terrorist Committee, because he appealed for military protection against the strikers. Two private St. Pitersburg banks and one Moscow bank have suspended payment.