Russia.

Manawatu Herald, 28 January 1905, Page 3

Russia.

INHABITANTS OF ST. PETERS BURG INCENSED.

UNARMED CITIZENS MAS

SACRIiD

The military authorities report that a mob M twenty-five thousand, at Kolpino, carrying a petition, met a regiment of infantry and half a field battery from Tsarkoe. The soldiers fired and a fight ensued, which continued until the workers retreated, the soldiers pursuing them. Order was restored during the afternoon.

The inhabitants of St. Petersburg are incensed at the installation Of General Trepoft in the Winter Palace as dictator of the capital. The Daily Mail states the massacre of unarmed Kalpino petitioners preceded a battle when the workmen were armed. An officer, who was an eye-witness, described the battle and the terrible repression as a “ bath of bloodi”

Thousands of Workmen at Helsingsfots rioted, and fifty arrests were made.

The Daily Telegraph says Gapon’s revolutionary manifesto to the soldiers, and his letters to the workers, were so violent that they were burned when read. Hessen and other reform leaders not connected with fhe committee or secret organisation state they w'ere merely a deputation to M. de Witte, asking him to prevent bloodshed. The concensus of opinion is that General Trepoff is a tyrant and that the reactionaries momentarily have the upper hand in the Czar’s counsels.

The newspaper National Zietung is informed that the chief danger of the moment is the possibility of the Grand Dukes arranging a military revolution involving the Czar’s more or less voluntary resignation. Mr White, formerly American Ambassador in St, Petersburg, says the Czar is hopelessly unfit to grapple with the crisis, and that important changes are coming.