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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3492, 4 March 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

| Russia’s Interna! Strife,

\VoRKMEN’S C<)N DPITOXS FOR CONFERENCE. 11 YOU ARE NUMBER SEVEN ! ” ; Sr. Pf-TMKsnrßn, March 2. i Two hundred and fifty workmen ■ were select"!! hmt Friday to choose i (ifiv representatives at St. Petersburg ! factory-workers, t > take part in a Coin- ! mission which is to consider the ques j lion of political, social, and industrial | reforms. I The workmen, however,subsequently held a mooting, and resolvod to refuse |to elect renre-(::t!a:ires unless certain conditions w--re e .(linked with. The eondkiou.:- a r..- : -The release of thif-n hundred van'.men arrested alter I lie disturbance.; at Winter Palace on (aniiarv 22nd ; a guarantee of inviola bility of person and domicile during the sittings of the Commission ; also liberty of speech and publicity. It is reported that's!. Boulyguine, the new Minister oftiio Interior, visited j the assassin ot the Gram! D.iko Sergius, end asked: Do you know me?” The assassin replied : “ Yon arc Number Sevan” —meaning the seventh on the list of those condemned to death by the extremists alter the massacre at St, Petersburg in January, SITUATION BECOMING MORE CRITICAL. FEARS FOR THE EUUTRE. St. Pp/niKsnußG, March 2. The situation in St. Petersburg and Warsaw is worse. Eight thousand workmen from Warsaw and Lodz have gone to the villages and arc spreading their propaganda. The peasants in the Radoinn district refuse; to pay their taxes and offer armed resistance. Soldiers are repressing the rising at Kulak-. Drunken officers fired upon pedestrians and several school boys were shot. Strikes arc spreading in man}’ places to an alarming extent, and the railway in the Irkutsk district is blocked. Paris, March 2. There is growing anxiety in France respecting Russia’s prospect and the continuance of the war. London, March 2. A squadron of Russian dragoons deserted across the Austrian frontier. They will emigrate to the United States.