FOREIGN COMMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7722, 26 January 1905, Page 3

FOREIGN COMMENTS.

GENERAL FEELING OF DISGUST EXHIBITED. , LONDON, Jan. 24. The Times' Berlin correspondent says that the Russian telegraphic censorship has been'latterly in'abeyance, and that it is clear from what has been telegraphed that the authorities desired the agitation to come to a head. They did not oppose preliminary organisation or processions, and the police were forbidden to prevent the development of the revolution, but were instructed to allow events to ripen for action by the military. The newspaper Kreuz Zeitung and other advocates of the traditional Kussian policy of repression and defence of the Grand Dukes, also Liberal and Radical newspapers, scathingly denounce the incident. Comments in many of the French newspapers regarding the St. Petersburg massacre are extremely bitter. They predict the downfall of Czarism. Kussian residents- in America are greatly excited. Their unions have remitted to the strikers £IOO,OOO. ""The West 11am Trades and Labour Council has forwarded to the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour a resolution expressing- horror at the wanton butof many of their comrades in protest on Great liritain's behalf.