THE RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7723, 27 January 1905, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN CRISIS.

TREPOFF GIYEN ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY To Suppress Trouble In The Capital. (Received Jan. 26, 10.55 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 2U. The Kreuz Zeitun* and the Berlin Post express admiration for the merciless suppressions in St. Petersburg.. | An important case hasi been postponed, a barrister engaged finding it impossible to jj'ead owing to the recent events'. The jurymen agreed with the barrister's view. An Imperial ukase has been issued | esting in General Trepolt the most absolute powers. The ukase declares that the events of the last few days have shown the necessity for extra'ordinary measures for the preservation of civil order and public secu- ' '"itv. The Czar thanks General Trepofl for his distinguished and zealous services at Moscow. A notice the St. Petersburg strikers twenty-four hours in which to rej sume work, and those refusing then will be deported to villages. | By General Trepofl's orders the (Victims of tho late street fights were i buried ae five o'clock in the morning. Relations in most cases were not permitted to see the bodies, the latter toeing identified by the clothing on them. A PROCLAMATION. PRICE OX NIHILIST LEADER'S HEAD. (Received Jan. 26, 11.37 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 26. All tho Reval and Riga factories have struck!. A deputation of St. Petersburg pressmen, in presenting To Prince Mirski a petition, emphasised the opinion that had freedom of tho press existed the massacres would not have occurred. Prince Mirski intiHiatal that hq was consulting General Trepofl. Two tobacco factories have resumed operations. By the Czar's orders M. Kokovtseff, Secretary to the Council of the Empire has issued a proclamation warning tho workers against disturbers whose agitation as alien to the interests. Workers are invited to co-operate with the Government in pacifying the people. Labour is reminded of the Czar's reform decree. The Government is ready to listen to tho workers' just desires, which it would satisfy wherever possible. Barristers in Moscow decline to plead. Paul CcrnikofT, the Nihilist leader, who has been in London, is going to St. Petersburg. Three thousand sterling is offered for his capture, <Tead or alive. CernikofT says he is returning to his Motherland,* carrying his life in his hands, to help faer dn the hour of jdistrcss. INCULCATING ANGLO PHOBIA. FURTHER RIOTING "AND BLOODSHED IN POLAND. (Received Jan. 27, 2.26 a in ) St. PETERSBURG, Jail. 26. Thirty thousand men in Moscow have struck. A delayed message declares that Cossacks lired on a crowd of 3000 demonstrators on Tuesday, when many were wounded. 'ifie authorities have placarded Moscow with a telegram purporting to emanate from Paris, stating that according to a London correspondent the disturbances at the Admiralty works at St. Petersburg, Libnu, Sevastopol, and in the collieries of Westphalia (Prussia) are due to AngloJapanese agents, hoping to provoke such orders being given as will prevent the Baltic and Black Sea squadrons from proceeding to the Far East. It is added that the English have forwarded enormous sums of money to Russia to organise the workmen's revolt. The Czar is at the Tsarkoe Selo. Desperate fighting between the revolutionaries and the police has occurred at Lodz, in Poland, and many deaths are reported. Bombs killed several of the police, and tile prison and other buildings were wrecked. Incendiary fires at the Lilian murine depots are reported. LONDON, Jan. 20. The , Times' Berlin correspondent states that some degree of reform in Russia is anticipated. The minimum mentioned is the habeas corpus law and inviolable elementary rights. YESTERDAY'S NEWS EPITOME. LONDON, Jan. 23. Military reports state that a mob numbering twenty-five thousand at Kolpino, carrying a petition, met a regiment of infantry and half a field battery from the Tsarkoe Selo. The soldiers fired, and the light continued till the workers retreated, the soldiers pursuing them. Order was restored during the afternoon. The Daily Mail states that a massacre of unarmed Kolpino petitioners preceded the battle when the workmen were flarnicd. , An officer who was an eye witness described the battle and the terrible repression as a bath of blood. The inhabitants of St. Petersburg are incensed at the installation of General Trepofl in the Winter Palace as dictator of the capital. The concensus of opinion is that General Trepofl is a tyrant. Movements similar to that in Moscow have begun at Vilna. Thousands' of workmen in Helsingfors, the capital of Finland, rioted, and fifty arrests were made. The Daily Telegraph says that Father Garpon's revolutionary manifesto to the soldiers and his letters to the workers were so violent that they were burned when read at secret meetings. They denounced the miscreant Czar, who was accused by the people. The journalist Hessen and other reform leaders were not connected with the committee or the secret organisation. They were merely a deputation to M. de Witte, asking him to prevent bloodshed. The reactionaries momentarily have the upper hand in the Czar's counsels. The National Zeitung is informed that the chief danger of the moment is the possibility of the Grand Dukes arranging a military revolution involving the Czar's more or less voluntary resignation. Mr White, formerly American Ambassador to St. Petersburg, says the Czar is hopelessly unlit to grapple with tlio crisis, and that important changes arc coming. St. PETERSBURG, Jan. 25.The Governor of Kovno warned the workmen that any violent outbreak would be vigorously suppressed. The Government would investigate and try to rgrant claims for increased wages and factory reforms. (Kovno, cabled yesterday as Koono, is the capital of a Russian Government of the same name on the German frontier. The town is 58 miles west-north-west of Vilna.) Want of funds is operating to stop the St. Petersburg strike. Scores of the masters are willing to concede nine 'hours a day. Tho Mayor of Wellington yesterday informed a deputation that he could not see his way clear to call a public meeting to protest ugainst the Russian atrocities. The Wellington branch of the New Zealand Socialists carried a resolut on protesting against the dastardly treatment of .the Russian Socialists and Labour Parly.