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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3612, 19 December 1905, Page 3

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Unhappy Russia

St. Petersburg, Dec. 15

It is reported that the whole of the peasants have risen murdering many landowners and declaring that until the Douma has made the laws they would do as they liked. Cossacks are being urgently summoned from Manchuria to suppress the agrarian disorders. The Czar has ordered the officials at Vilna to send immediately to the Baltic provinces every available soldier to crush the Republican movement.

The Railway Workers’ Union has telegraphed to the Manchurian army: “Rely on us. We will see that you are brought back to assist Russia’s liberation, even if we have to declare a general strike. The army replied enthusidstically. General Linevitch’s last telegram, marked urgent, stated that he was unable to combat the

spread of the revolutionary propaganda. Already half the army were mutinous, the reservists demanding immediate repatriation and rejecting paper money. The United Peasant Workers have sworn to boycott every Government revenue-bearing undertaking. The troops at’ KishiumT"and Odessa refused to fire on thej rioters. The Lettish population of the Baltic provinces established a local republic with officials and armed forces. The latter are obeying orders to burn, pillage and execute the barons and pastors. Any Government officials showing resistance are killed. The strikers, in St. have cut the! northern cable. I

The Times reports than an extraordinary rumour is current and is generally believed in St. Petersburg that the Czar has caused the arrest of Count Ignatieff for plotting to establish a Dictatorship. Count Witte is said to have unmasked the plot.