Russia.

Manawatu Herald, 9 February 1905, Page 3

Russia.

ALLEGED FAKED DEPUTA-

TION

AREEST OF AGITATORS

REFORMS SHELVED

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 6

One thousand workmen declare that the deputation to the Czar, referred to in the cables on the 2nd inat., were really police agents who did not represent the St. Petersburg operatives. Delegates representing four hundred thousand St. Petersburg workmen have resolved to petition the Czar for an audience in order to present a memorandum describing their moral, material and social condition, and pray him not to entrust the bureaucracy with the introduction of improvements.

The troops in Russian Turkestan have been greatly strengthened. LONDON, Feb. 6. Seven hundred arrests have been made in Warsaw.

Two hundred persons were 1 expelled from gymnasia for daring to petition the directors in favour of the introduction of the Polish language. They will be permanently excluded from Government schools, and will have to serve for three years in the ranks instead of a year as volunteers.

The Daily Telegraph’s St, Petersburg correspondent states the ukase issued by M. Yermoloff, Minister for Agriculture, directing the preparation of a scheme for internal reforms, and, also, an inquiry into the massacre, has been shelved. Major Napier, military attache at the British Embassy, has concluded an inquiry into the outrage on the Consuls at Warsaw. Captain Murray declares the attacks were such as might have happened to anybody in the streets. The incident is considered to be closed.

The Daily Mail states one hundred thousand workmen at Sosnowice have struck and are well armed.

There has been fresh fighting and bloodshed at Radom (Poland). Old and uniate believers (Greek united), and Siedice (Poland), burnt three orthodox churches.