Troublesome Russia.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3591, 28 October 1905, Page 3

Troublesome Russia.

St. Petersburg, Oct 25. Anarchy prevails at Riga—the capital of the government of Livonia, and one ot the chief cities of the Empire. Many bloody collisions have £aken place, A railway cashier was murdered In the streets and robbed of twenty-four thousands roubles. The Government.spirit-shops in Riga were ransacked. Further disturbances in different provinces ar* 'reported. At EkaterinoSlav, in South Russia, the strikers erected ’jarraicades to protect themselves.. The Cossacks tired on them killing and wounding many: The Polish railwayman have joined in the strike, and railway communication between St. Petersburg and Warsaw has been stopped. Owing to the dislocation of traffic, caused by the railway strike, Sir Charles Hardinge, British Ambassador at St Petersburg, who is about to start on leave of absence, was unable to leave St, Petersburg by train. He is now awaiting the arrival of a steamer.

RIOTS, STRIKES, AND GENERAL DISCONTENT. St. Petersburg Oct 26. Fifteen people; \v br e killed and 26 injured in a cornet with the troops in the demonstration at Ekaterinoslav. The stri^ <ers seized a train going in the direction of Syzran, and travelled from Station to station plundering and d®F(.roying the buildings. Strikers collided at the Nikolai station with some engine drivers wishing to resume work. Several were killed and wouuduci. Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is isolated. A meat and fOa! famine is threatened.

The trad e 'ot the seaport is gradually boing paralysed. The trains have all stopped except those to Kieff.

Ar immense meeting ot students ami workmen took place in St. Petersh r jrg. Revolutionary speeches were made urging an armed rising. Count de Witte, in receiving a deputation from the Working Men’s Congress, stipulated that hiR remarks were unofficial, as he was not empowered to accept addresses. Some of their demands, he said, ivould not l>e granted in any country with a constituent assembly. At present it was impossible to have universal suffrage. It gave pre-eminence to the wealthy, ao-i enabled them to influence votes r xnd not the cultivated man. The whole world favoured universal suffrage. He added that the freedom of the press and public meetings would shortly be granted. Martial law on the railways would be abolished. He advised the cessation of the strike pending the elaboration of pacific conditions. t. A STATE OF CIVIL WAR. London, Oct. 26. The Times’ St. Petersburg corresSondent states the inhabitants are ecoming panic-strikcn, fearing the downfall of the Government and the proclamation of mob rule. A later message from the correspondent is as follows: — “ Plundering has commenced in St. Petersburg. The police are hurriedly directing the house porters to close their doors.

Thirty thousand passengers are strike bound at the Moscow terminus. The authorities are feeding them since they are unable to return to their hotels. .

“ A mutiny was attempted on the battleship Katherine, and also” at the fortress of Sebastopol. Five hundred arrests were made.”