CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3592, 31 October 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

Unhappy Russia,

MUCH RIOTING AND STRIKES. USE BALL CARTRIDGES? St- Petersburg, Oct 27. Three thousand students at Kharkoff, in Southern KnssSA, after pillaging the armouries, barricaded the windows and door of the Cathedral, the University, and the Courts of Justice, burnt the archives, and hoisted the red flag. 1 roQBs surrounded them, and martial mV/ was proclaimed, A Committee of Public Safety has been enrolled of the civilian militia to guaitl the town. They induced the b?,rricaders to surrender their arms emd evacuate on condition that they were not arrested and not prosecuted. Seven hundred and fifty thousand railway men have struck. Trade on all the principal lines, except in Finland. is paralysed. The Siberian lines are affected.

General Trepoff has issued a proclamation to the troops and police, *0 act most vigorously, always using ball cartridge.

At vast revolutionary meetings at St Petersburg \he sentiment, “We must meet fence by force” was enthusiastically applauded. The Tunes’ St Petersburg correspondent wires to his journal as fob 10w.',;

'* There are one million strikers in Russia,

“The official of the Ministry of Ways and Communications have abandoned their posts. “ The police demand increased pay. u General Trepoff has told the Colonels that they are empowered to ten on any gathering ot upwards of 'six people. “ The sixty thousand troops in St. Petersburg city are divided into four sections ot a division of infantry with a'full complement of guns each.” St. Petersburg, Oct. 29. The Russian Government has postponed the negotiations for raising a loan until a change in the internal situation improves the foreign money market. The garrison at St. Petersburg is reduced to eating salt meat. The rifle shops and factories at Reval have been plundered and crowds armed with revolvers prevented the fire brigade from extinguishing an incendiary fire at a theatre.