CABLE NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3610, 14 December 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

Maddened Russia

St. Petersburg, Dec. 12. A strike has commenced in seven railways.

Factory strikes in Moscow are abating and most workmen have resumed at ten hours per day. A hundred soldiers of the Kexholm Regiment marched at the head of a revolutionary procession at Warsaw. The Krochowski infantry was ordered to fire, but refused, and allowed the procession to pass. General Maximovitch has issued orders that the Cossacks are to shoot rebel peasants, freely, adding that the more political malcontents there were killed the higher the Czar’s estimates would be of the services of the troops. THE HARBIN OUTBREAK. SOME DETAILS.

At Harbin, drunken mutineers raided the hospitals and the comforts for the patients were eaten. The doctors and nurses were bound and thrown into snowdrifts.

Many Russian and Chinese civilians were murdered.

All the troops cheered the sight of the burning city. General MadowilofTs cavalry attacked the rioters and a bloody fight at close quarters ensued. When the troops at Harbin learned they would not be compelled to face the winter on scarce supplies of food and clothing, thousands paraded the streets like banditti, burning the shops and plundering. Some seized an express train and went to Vladivostock. They raided the Government stores there and returned laden with supplies, drink, several machine guns, many rifles and much ammunition.

A great orgy followed when they were savagely drunk. Harbin was sacked, the mutineers using the machine guns freely. THE CIVII, SERVICE REVOI/T.

A proclamation has been issued forbidding employees of the Post and Telegraph Office to form unions. A sum of will be distributed among the more deserving of those resuming work. The Post and Telegraph strike in Kieff has ended.

The railwaymen’s meeting at Riga was interrupted by the arrival of machine guns.

Depositors have been officially warned of the risk of withdrawals from the Russian savings banks. The latter are said to be perfectly sure.

SAKHAROFF’S MURDER. General Sakharoff's murderess was elegantly dressed and presented a petition asking him for the pillage of property She shot him through the lungs and heart.

GENERAL STRIKE INEVITABLE.

Despite its promises the Government has revived the worst forms of press restrictions and punishments. Many editors declare they will suspend publishing. Owing to the arrest of M. Kronstaloff, President of the worker’s delegates, a general strike is considered inevitable.