CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3562, 19 August 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

Affairs in^Russia. PEASANT RISINGS. A court-martial at Odessa sentenced two young men and a girl to twenty and thirteen years penal servitude for having explosives in their possession. The peasants in the Courland district sacked 2.? municipal buildings and destroyed the documents and conscription lists. They took all the money belonging to the State. The peasants at Eavonia have invaded many estates and have killed three land owners. WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT. A conference was held at Moscow of two hundred delegates from all parts of Russia representing the Peasants’ Union. Resolutions were passed making the following demands: — Universal suffrage, to apply to both sexes. A regular Parliament, with power to initiate legislation, control the national finances, and supervise the administration of the country’s affairs. The utilisation of monastic lands for purposes of peasant proprietorship. Compulsory, free elementary education, with non-com-pulsory religious instruction, and the secularisation of the schools. The whole movement is described as a universal upheaval, beyond the control of the authorities. The bloodshed at Bielostok originated in a demonstration following military depression. A bomb was thrown at two soldiers from a Jewish house. A detachment of soldiers entered the house and massacred every inmate, thirty being killed altogether. Admiral Kruger and Vishnevesky have been placed on the retired list. Captain Gongewitch has been retired with the rank of Rear-Admiral; Captain Baranowsky, of the Front, has been retired with the rank of Captain on account of the recent mutiny in the Black Sea,