Russia.

Manawatu Herald, 11 February 1905, Page 3

Russia.

RIOTS, REVOLUTION, AND

BLOODSHED

MUCH STRIFE,

BT. PETERSBURG, Feb. 8. Trepoff has fixed a date for the (resumption of University and other 'classes. If the mutinous students are in the majority they will be expelled, and every institution will be closed. It is unofficially stated that the Czar will early convene the Zemtvos’ Congress. The Government is anxious to restore tranquility, as, even if the ■opportunity for honourable peace occurred, it would be impossible to recall the beaten and disappointed troops and disband them among the disaffected population. Kedrine, a member of the St. Petersburg municipality, has been arrested. A search of his domicile revealed the draft of a proclamation, inciting the army to revolt, The strikers at Lodz are terrorizing those operatives who are willing to resume. The manufactures are offering ten hours a day and increases of wages, varying from five to fifteen per cent, provided all resume. Father Gaj*m is in Switzerland. The strikes on the Transcaucasian railway, Elizabethpool and elsewhere are spreading. Work at Libau has been largely resumed. The strike at Mitau has ended. Riots ending in bloodshed have occurred at Lodz and further riots at

Warsaw. The Czar has appointed M. Kobobo, a member of the Council of the Empire, as president of the Committee to amend the censor and press laws in a liberal direction. NEW YORK, Feb. 8.

Baron Nolten, Chief of Police at Warsaw, in an interview with the New York Herald’s correspondent, stated the present movement was revolutionary and economic, the war in the Far East being profoundly unpopular. LONDON, Feb. 8. The French newspapers state there is a general strike at Irkutsk, including the railway men. No Russian home news is allowed to reach Manchuria since the recent spatches disastrously affected the army. The social democratic workmen’s party is flooding St. Petersburg with handbills exhorting the strikers to continue, declaring that the next demonstration will be under the red flag and with weapons. Reuter’s St. Petersburg correspondent says that 18,000 of the Plutiff and Obutohoff have again struck.

Father Gapon is circulating in St. Petersburg a petition asking that measures be taken to put an end to the general ignorance and absence of law, to provide against poverty and to protect labour against oppression.