CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3611, 16 December 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

Unhappy Russia.

St. Petersburg, Dec. 13

M. Witte’s bold repressive measures have compelled the labour chiefs'to delay the general strike to a more convenient moment, and in the meantime to prepare for an armed rising. Twenty thousand messages await despatch in the St. Petersburg telegraph office. The banks still employ messengers to the frontier. Officers and men are all under arms at Moscow, including the Cossacks. It has been decided to prepare a general list of the garrisons’ grievances.

All the domestic servants, coachmen, and cabmen in Warsaw have struck.

IN SELF-DEFENCE

The German residents at Riga have organised a regiment for mutual protection. They have imported 1200 Mauser rifles, have connected all the houses in the German suburb with electric alarms, and have pierced the walls of their houses enallug lac E ■ mates to move frcv Ei. house without using ’ 1 ■>. ■■ THE TIME NCG Pi PE

I(ONDC' ‘ bee-, : ;v Father Gapon, m». i?vved, said further revolutionary violence would needlessly cause a reaction. The people were not ready for full emancipation. The education of the masses was insufficient.

St. PetkrsrurG) Dec. 13. There are 100,000 troops round Tsarkoe Selo, the Czar’s palace. Five hundred Catholic clergy of Russian Poland have resolved to propagate the doctrine of Christian democracy. They demanded the autonomy of Poland with the ballot, and separate Parliament. Refugees from Galicia report that General Sakharoff’s murderer was a locksmith’s apprentice disguised as a woman. General Madowiloff’s cavalary Stood their ground heroically at Harbin and the mutineers were routed.

General Dinievitch urges the repatriation of the troops.

COUNT DE WITTE HOPEFUL.

London, December 14,

Count de Witte has informed the Daily Telegraph correspondent that the army will remain absolutely loyal to the Czar under all conditions. The socialists and anarchists might prevent a few officers and men but no noteworthy section has been seduced. The demands of the malcontents were chiefly for economical reform. Russia was certainly able to discharge her obligation and holders of securities had nothing to fear. Though his health was considerably affected he intended to stick to his post.