THE SOCIALISTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1655, 23 January 1906, Page 2

THE SOCIALISTS.

GREAT GATHERINGS IN BERLIN UNOFFICIAL POLICE FORCE. By telegraph, Presa Aes’n, Copyright Received 10.5 p.m., Jan. 22. Berlin, Jan- 22. Although Socialist meetings have been prohibited at Hamburg, Leipsic, Dresden, and several other cities, the authorities perm’tted 93 meetings in Berlin, which wbre attended by over 50,000 people. Resolutions were carried welcoming the I revolutionary sucoesEes ia Russia, sympathising with the victims of autocratio tyranny, protesting against the three-class Prussian electoral system, demanding universal, equa 1 , and secret suffrage, condemning the reactionary Russian Diet as a oarioature of a real, representative assembly. Strong forces of cavalry, infantry, and artillery were held ready to support a thousand police, but there was not the slightest disturbance. Unofficial workmen’s police easily controlled their comrades. They claim this as a triumph of Socialist organisation.

GREAT MEETINGS HELD

EVENTS IN RUSSIA

By telegraphy Presa Asa-’n, Copyright

Received 11.17 p.m., Jan. 22. Berlin, Jan. 22.

Ssveral Reichstag deputies protested at their meetings againet the injustice of the Prussian electoral system practically disfranchising one million and threequarters Social Democratic electors. Herr Bebel remarked that though Socialists and Social Democrats had no oooasion at present to transfer their agitation to the streets, events in Russia must be regarded as the mene tekel for the governing classes. Great Social Democratic demonstrations passed quietly at Fiankfurt, Hanover, Kiel, Cologne, Prelan, and other towns.