A Great Country.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3595, 7 November 1905, Page 3

A Great Country.

GENERAL RIOTING.

_ St. Pbtissbcbo, Nov. 4, During thanksgiving services at Rishmeff, in connection with the Czar's manifesto, hooligans pillaged and burnt most of the Jewish quarter. The authorities and troops remained Inactive. The shopkeepers' resistance led to a perfect orgy of carnage. Telegrams received fray* the town describe the massacre a» horrible. All the hospitals, pharmacies and hotels in the place are full of wounded and mutilated. Every Jewish sb' jp has been wrecked. Christians were 'not injured if they displayed an ikp jQ 0 f z portrait of the Czar across their doorways, “ l L r ? n , 'Zuenzbcrg was wounded, an ® "I 8 'jouse looted. Mulleins 0 f roubles’ worth of prouas been destroyed. At Nicolaieff, an important naval 9tftt ’i«»n, bands of "patriot bandits" j‘ rr s looting the Jewish houses and •'yoating the Jews to death. The authorities are not interfering. Two hundred bombs were exploded in the town. All the shops were destroyed, and wholesale loeting took place. Heavy casualties arc reported. Similar news comes from Sebastopol, Rostoff'-judon, and Elisagethgrade. The urj on 0 f unions’ organisations and professional classes demands the withdrawal of troops from St. Petersburg in favour of a militia drawn from th e people. The Council of workmen’s delegates at St. Petersburg has suspended the railway strike, to be resumed under arms in thirty days unless the demands are granted. Only those newspapers which ignore censorship are allowed by the workmen’s council to appear. A partial railway strike continues, chiefly to prevent the sending of troops to Finland.

« A SECOND CONFLICT EXPECTED. St. Petersburg. Nov. 5. The workmen’* delegates at St. Petersburg are organising a monster procession for the occasion of the of the funerals of the victims in the recent disorders. ■ General Trapoffs warning; that no political demonstration will be permitted, and demanding the abandonment of the plan, suggests the po*. sibility that a second bloody conflict will take place. THE STRIKERS SUCCESSFUL. Count de Witt* received the delegates of the Central Strike Committee and empowered them to inform the railway sthk ><rs that their demands had been Ranted.

disturbances all over THE COUNTRY. Strike riots and attacks on Jews are general throughout the Empire. Encounters took place at Moscow between students and loyal reactionaries. Many were shot with revolvers during the not. At Hugulovska a hundred armed Jews attacked an English factory and endeavoured to force the workmen to strike. Several were killed in the ensuing conflict. Mob law rules in Odessa.

In justice to the troops it must be said the troops neither permit or assist the massacres of the Jews. One hundred Jewish shops have been wrecked and five thousand six hundred people wounded. The hospitals received 500 casualty cases on Saturday.