TROUBLES IN RUSSIA

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1639, 28 December 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA

By telegraph* Press Ass’n, Copyright London, Dec. 20.

Tho Daily Telegraph’d B‘. Pttonburg oerrospondent report! that tho latest Moscow nows shows that down to ail oar y hour on Monday morning fivo thousand woro killod ond fourteen thousand wounded. Fighting is still procooding. Provisions mo soarc'’. Tho i trikers dipplay reokloes bravery. 1 Whon expelled from coit.in po ton) ot tho city tboy built heavier barricades in tho suburb". A largo numbor of workmen and peasants from outlying districts ato I co'oporotiog. . , , The oorrospondont further predicts that a commorcial and industrial crisis of unexampled severity is imminent, unless the Government suppresses iho anarchy; though Stalo finauoiul obligations will bo fu’filled. . The Daily Telegraph’d B‘. Petersburg oor.ospondoat soys tho insurgents in Mosoow appear to aim at prod riming a provisional government and forestalling the i dumas. ■ [ The hospitals are unable to accemino- , date tho wounded. Many are being treated , in private bouse?. Tho miss of tho

population lowered ceiu™ to avoid tho cannon on Sunday. . The insurgents have resolved to try to wear tho troops cub, only firing at them wbon they aro ob'o to kill. They havo appealed to outlying districts to help. «e----poiti are current that contingents, wita artillery, ere coming fiom tho Balt'.c pro-. vinoes. Tho loyalty of tho troops causes surprise. St. Petersburg. Dec. 26. Martial law has been proclaimed over tho whole of Poland. The postal and tolograph employoes at Warsaw have resumed work, having accepted tbo Government's offer. Father Gapon is at Bordighers, conferring with Russian exiles, It is understood that this is tho prelude to tho arrival oi a high political personage. 1 Tho garrison at Baku has revolted.

FIGHTING AT MOSCOW.

REBELS ADOPTING GUERILLA

TACTICS.

RAILWAY STATIONS ON FIRE,

By, telegraph, Press 'Ass’n, Copyright Received 10.7 p.m., Dec. 27.

St. Petersburg, Dec. 27. The strike movement is weakening in St. Petersburg. Fifteen thousand have resumed work.

Received 10.46 p.m., Dec. 27. London, Doc. 27. The Times’ St. Petersburg correspondent reports : The Moscow rebels on Monday caplutod the Sukbaroff Tower, Sadovaya street, placiog machine gens therein, wherewith they fired upon the garrison. Subsequently a pitched ba'tlo was fought in Red Square. The first of tbo Don Co3sack?, lver Dragoons, and Veshiz infantry mutinied, and have been confined to the barracks. Dubasoff telegraphed on Mouday : Situation alarming. Fifteen thousand killed or wounded." Nows received late on Tuesday evening indicates that the rebels aro making no Leadway, but show no signs of exhaustion. Corpses are strewing the thoroughfares. They a v e chiefly of beardless youths. While the exhausted troops were resting on Saturday night the rebels dug trenches and eracted barricades and wire entanglements a ! l over the city. Receivod 10.55 p.m., Dec. 27-

London, Deo 27.

The Times account emtinued : All Sunday the rebels pursued guerilla tactic?, trying to exhaust the soldiers before the final blow. Apparently they are now trying to isolate the troopi by a triple i ring ot barricades. I Two rebel bauds advanced, ogunsfc Nicolai station from two directions, but were repulsed with artfllory and machine ••. -uncer -news-s’atcs that Nicolai ana Riixan stations are in flames.

Cannon and quickfirers are posted at all the principal cross rOads, but the rebels aro now oporatiog a manoeuvre through winding etreefs. Tho general public do not venture out after nightfall since the streets aro in darkness. Received 11.16 p.m., Dec. 27, The Times correspondent adds : Fines and imprisonment were inflicted on all those at Moscow not shutting the doors of the houses, or if arms were found inside.

Artillery bombard houses whenco rebels fire and throw bombs,

The great Systin printing works have been demolished. Warsaw repoits slate that owing to threats that the rebels would follow Mobcow’s example in an armed insurrection, the authorities arrested many prominent Socialists.