CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3601, 23 November 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

Various Cabled Items.

INSULTING THIS POLES, ST. Petersburg, Nov. 21.

Two Jews have been killed at Warsaw for refusing to contribute to the Socialistic fundi Temporary Governors have been appointed in ten provinces of Poland. They have issued most drastic anti-Polish decress calculated to provoke disturbances. The right even of private meeting is denied and owners are held responsible for outrages upon the troops from houses. Reuter’s agency declare the Russian officials in Poland are permitted to organise mass meetings to insult the Poles and denounce the proposals for self-government. MORE MASSACRES FEARED.

Eight hundred hooligans at Odessa threaten vengeance on the Jewish witnesses testifying against them at the enquiry into the outrages. Persistent rumours are afloat that the garrison is organising a fresh outbreak.

The British Consul has demanded a collective passport for Britishers who will leave unless sure protection is afforded. The Foreign Consuls at Warsaw have applied to the authorities for protection of their compatriots.

PROPOSED SEIZURE OF BAND.

Improved rations served out to the men prevented a military outbreak at Odessa.

The Peasants’ Congress at Moscow threatened to seize the lands

next spring unless given free development of the Zemstov Congress,

Prince Trubetskoi warned the

Congress that unless it rallied round the Government and its manifesto the white terror of re-

action would certain recur,

Prince Dolgorouff and others opposed any association with the Government. ' CONFIDENCE IN COUNT DE WITTE.

Russian extremists have threatened a general strike in January but there is a growing conviction that Count de Witte is able to execute reforms.

Prince Oldenburge’s estate at Voronzh has been devastated.

Four more Cossacks regiments, making 17 in all, have been sent to Nocherkask.