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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42799, 31 October 1905, Page 3

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Sx Petersburg, Yesterday, r Street fighting commenced at Odessa on Sunday afternoon. After a huge crowd compelled the closing of shops and restaurants, seized the tramcars and erected barricades. The Cossacks fired, killing four and wounding 18. A deputation from other regiments asked the workmen not to fire on the troops, promising themselves to shoot in the air in order to quell the disturbances. Leaders of the reactionary party are doing their utmost to incite the Czar to direct General Trepoff to use his 108,000 soldiers and:2o machine guns. Count de Witte expressed amazement that anyone should desire to mow down people who were behaving in an orderly manner. Count de Witte’s freedom of the Press merely permits temporary discussion cf the Duma election. Terrible scenes of bloodshed are occurring at Odessa. Cossacks and gendarmes, after shoo.iDg those manning the barracks pursued the frenzied mob into houses and garrets, The number of victims is not known as ihe police instantly removed the bodies. The infantry is considered untrust worthy and is confined to the barracks. London, Yesterday. The Daily Telegraph’s St Petersburgcorrespondent reports that at midnight, after many hours’ conference with Count de Witte, the Czar accepted the Libe r al programme and appointed Count de Witte Premier and resolved to grant a representative assembly of a fully representative character. The Imperial manifests is expected to-day. j This news was brought from Peterhof j by steamer, the telegraph and telephone | lines being cut. Fully a million-and- j a-half of workmen have struck; the whole industrial system is paralysed. Toicio, Yesterday. Russian lists revealed only 976 Japanese prisoners in Russia. It has now been ascertained that the correct number is 1,978 and the discovery has caused much indignation throughout Japan. London, Yesterday, The Daily Telegraph’s eorresponent also states that the Czar is resolved to abolish mariial law throughout the Empire. The Time’s St. Petersburg correspondent reports that the government is incapable of enforc ing even a semblance of authority. In view of the nations’ passive revolt, soldiers openly murmur at the degrading work expected of them. 300 sailors at Sf. Petersburg mutinied. The ministers at Peterhof divided the court iu revolt against the Czar, the majority of ministers and M. Hep iff advise immediate ron -tiiu ion : re- 1 actionaries advise dictatorship under Alexis Ignatieff.