TROUBLES IN RUSSIA

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1637, 30 December 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA

OUTRAGES BY CO3SACK9. .Pm^tH**** By telegraph, Press 'Ass'n, Copyright St. Petersburg, Dee. 28. ' An Imperial ukase confers tho duma franchise on owners of taX'-ffi’c real property and taxable induettial concerns, on persons paying tho inhabit’d house duty or trado t>x, and persons who havo dwellings in tboir own names or oro in receipt of State oalßric?. Proportionate representation is granted to workmen. Factiries employing fifty up to ono thousand men may depute one woikman delegate, and thoso employing over one thousand ono delegate for every thousand workmen. Theso delegates chooso tbo actual electors. Tho Czar directs tho duuia to meet at tho earliest possible date. Tbo Czar has decreed that the State Bank must discount oa tho holder’s demand short-dated Treasury bouds not exceeding a total of four hundred million roubles, most of which havo bcon placed in Germany.

Tho barricades in tbe streets cf Moscow aro noarly a>l north of K r cmlin, forming three parallel lines. Tho first covers the Baulevardp, and has sixteen wire entanglements in Bronoya stroet alcne. Tho trees in the Boulevards havo |bnon cut down for barricades Tho real stronghold is within tho Heeond line( extending to Sadovaya street, towards Tverstaya district. The rebels hold tho Park. In one street barricades were constructed of captured tramcars and others built of house gates. Tho position of Mosciw is more critical. The troops are worn out, and tbo officers unnervod, owing to tbo constant strain. The insurgents occupy outlying stations and allow only disaffected troops of General L'mieviteh’s Manchurian army to enter. They then disarm thpm. ' The barricades are being extended round tbe centre of the city. The revolutionaries massacred several batohes of soldiers whom they captured, resenting their loyalty. A total of seven hundred leading revolutionaries in St. Petersburg have been arrested. Seventy four factories, normally employing over forty-four thousand hands, are idleCossacks, without provocation, invaded a factory which had resumed work. A stone was thrown, whereupon tho Cossackß fired a volley, killing and wounding thirty people. Some drunken Cossacks beheaded a workman. The crowd thereupon killed two Cossacks.

Revolutionaries, angry at the railway men’s defection, derailed several, trains, one carrying cavalry to Riga. One hundred arrests were made at Kharkoff, Some were manufacturing bombs. Jewish houses at Slock were searched and quantities of firearms and poisoned pikes seized. Agrarian outrages are reported from Taurida. Thirty estates wore plundered. Several fatalities occurred. Grave disorders aro reported at Kharkoff. The authorities surrounded and attacked a factory where fifteen hundred revolutionaries were conferring. After fiftysix had been killed and one hundred and eighty wounded, the rest eurrendered. A child approached elosa (o a number of Cofsicks and throw a bomb, killing several. LondoD, Dec 28. The Daily Telegraph’s St. Petersburg correspondent says that, although the Moscow rebels have been reinforced, their successes are becoming fewer. Tokio, Dee. 28. Russian prisoners at Narashimo mutinied, and attempted several times to fire tho barracks.

ARBEST OF DELEGATES. By, telegraph, Press 'Ass’n, Copyright Received 12.24 a.m , Deo. 30. St. Petersburg, Doc. 29. Police et Reval arrested 70 representa* lives of rural communes holding a congress without permission. HORRIBLE CRUELTIES. MDRDER OF POLICE OFFICERS. Received 9.52 p.m., Doo , 29. St. Petersburg. Dec. 29. Twenty-nine rebels forcod an entrance to tbe residence of the chief of the secret police at Moscow in tho middle of the night. They gave him time to say farewell to his family and then shirt him dead in the street. Tho hatred between anarchists and soldiers in Moscow leads to horrible cruelties. Anarchists captured a police superintendent and two constab'ei by means of ambuscados. They hacked, gashed, end mutilated them before killing them, Tfce author ties state that anarchists used vehicles marked with a red cross to approach and fire upon soldiers, who thereupod fired at an ambulance filled with wounded. The oausalties are now estimated at 9000 to 11,500 since Monday. It is estimated that four hundred peaceful citizens have been killed. The rebels consist largely of young workmen, studenls, and many girls and women.

DISAFFECTED TROOPS. SYMPATHY FOR REBELS. Ry telegraph, Press Ass'n, Copyright Received 11.16 p.m., Dec. 29. St. Petersburg, Dec. 29. The Times’ St. Petersburg correspondent reports that the Government, seriously alarmed, drafted three regiments from neighboring towns to Moscow; also the whole of the Semenoffeky guards and a portion of the horse guards from St. Petersburg. Citizens sympathise with the rebels, whose want of sufficient arms is the chief cause of non-success. The troops havo achieved no imeortant succee. The garrison consists of eight regiments of fco‘, the whole of whose loyalty is distrusted ; one and a half regiments of dragoons, two regiments of Co3sacks, detachments of gendarmes, two brigades of artillery and one brigade distrusted. All doubtful un’ts are confined to barracks. Armed rebels do not exceed 15,000. Tho Govornor-Gautral and authorit'es have taken refuge at Kremlin, where there ate 800,000 old patlorn rifl:s, gunp, ammunition, and stores. Rebels yesterday disarmed 30 officers.