TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1634, 23 December 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

GREAT PEASANT RISING.

By telegraph,. Press Ase’n, Copyright St. Petersburg. Dec. 21.

Count do Witte threatens to hang any revolutionary in St. Petersburg circulating an appeal to tho army, waterworks employees, and provision dealers. Servants are excepted from the operations oi the Moscow striko.

Tbore is a wholesales peasant rising in the -Ualtic provinces under Haximc, a wonderful ora'.cr, who is blindly oboyed. Towns, villages, and chateaux have been soizod and placed undor a revolutionary executive. The rsbrh arrested Bix German noblos, organising a militia for protection. Cossacks fired the Tomsk burning many muticoaß soldiers, they also massacred one hundred and twenty mutineers st Vladivostok. Russia Ijbb notifiod Germany oi her displeasure at the despatch of German war* ships to Russian waters, though there are fourteen thoueand German subjects in the Riga district alone. London, Dec. 21. The Times’ Constantinople correspondent states there is a growing feeling that the Sultan should send a corps to the Cauca-us to stop the massacres, as Russia is unable or unwilling to prevent them. TROOPS JOIN REVOLUTIONARIES. by telegraph, Press 'Ass’n, Copyright Received 9.48 p.m., Dec. 22. St. Petersburg, Dec. 22. The Cz9r declined to give an audience to M. Gouchkoff, who as mayor of Moscow, was summoned to St. Petersburg to participate in the Electoral Conference. He returned to Moscow. Fours eatly yesterday fell at St. Peterburg to 75. | There are crowds at the markets buying stores and provisions. There is martial law at Moscow, where soma troops are in sympathy with the strikers. Patt of the garrison at Kharkoff joined the rebels in the procession. The rest refused to fire.