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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3614, 30 December 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

Unhappy ftussia* -

SUBDUING THE BALTIC PROVINCES.'

St, Petersburg, Dec. 27. The new electoral law issued does not provide for universal suffrage. It concedes an indirect method of voting hedged in by many restrictions. It is expected the Douma will meet on March military expedition under Prince Orlofen has been sent to suppress the rising in the Baltic provinces. An attempt to assassinate the Prefect of Police at Moscow failed. THE MOSCOW REBELLION. SAVAGE STREET FIGHTING.

The.Times’ St. Petersburg correspondent reports that on Sunday night eighty rebels fired volleys from a house at Moscow and refused to surrender when cannonaded. When the house was ablaze the firemen tried to extinguish the flames, but the rebels fired oh them and soon the roof and walls fell, killing all the rebels. On Monday the rebels attacked the prison in order to release the prisoners. Two hundred warders heroically resisted and finally dispersed the assailants. The rebels possess six quickfiring guns and many bombs. The Piazan station was burnt when the troops cannonaded the rebels occupying it. Ten thousand workmen met and decided to arrest the GovernorGeneral of Moscow and the Prefect of Police. The strikers of St. Petersburg attempted to erect barricades on Monday but Cossacks dislodged them. Though there was some desire to emulate the Moscow rebels the fighting spirit was conspicuously absent among the vast majority. The two principal quarters of Moscow are in the insurgents’ hands. Forty-nine members of the executive committee of the armed revolutionary bands of St. Petersburg have been arrested. Their arms, bombs, and plans have been seized,/

TROOPS LOSE HEAVILY. Three hundred well-armed revolutionisis from Irer, who went to Moscow distributing revolvers and bombs, were shelled out of a storehouse by the troops. There were seventy casualties. Several bodies of troops and police were successively ambushed and out of twenty gendarmes in one body only one escaped. The losses have embittered the Dragoons. CRITICAL SITUATION IN MOSCOW.

THE TROOPS WORN OUT. St. Petersburg, Dec. 28. The position at Moscow is more critical. The troops are worn out and the officers unnerved owing to constant strain. The insurgents occupy the outlying stations, and allow only the disaffected troops of General Linievitch’s Manchurian army to enter. Then they disarm them. The barricades are being extended round the centre of the city* . , The revolutionaries massacred several batches of soldiers whom they captured, resenting their loyalty. . , A total of 700 of the leading revolutionaries of St. Petersburg have been arrested. Seventy-four factories, normally employing over 44,000 hands, are idle.

The Cossacks, without provocation, invaded a factory where work bad been resumed. A stone was thrown, whereupon the Cossacks fired a volley, killing and wounding thirty. Some drunken Cossacks beheaded a workman, and the crowd thereupon killed two Cossacks. The revolutionaries are angry because the railway men have resumed work. They have derailed several trains, including one ' carrying cavalry to Riga. The Jewish houses at Flock searched and quantities of firearms and poisoned pikes seized.