THE RUSSIAN REPRESSION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7727, 1 February 1905, Page 2

THE RUSSIAN REPRESSION.

—*— FURHTER PLACARDS POSTED AT LIBAU. A BRITISH OFFICIAL PROTEST. St. PETERSBURG, Jnn. 30. Placards signed by the Oovornor have been posted in Libbu. They ore similar to thosu put up in Moscow. Sir Charles Hanlinge, the British | Ambassador, has strongly protests! I against this action, ns jeopardising friendly relations, and Count Lamsdorft (Russjun Foreign Minister) has instructed the Moscow police to remove all traces of the placards. General Trepoff summoned correspondents of French newspapers and forbade them sending scare telegrams. The St. Petersburg press has ncx»n reduced to supplying only ofllcial information. THE SITUATION IN POLAND. A BOMB INJURES POLICE. GREAT, RUSSIAN WRITER IN SERIOUS DANGER. St. PETERSBURG, Jan. 30. Pickets arc plneod twenty vards aport in the Summer Palace Park. Warsaw is proclaimed to he in a state requiring increased protection. All shows have been closed, and the situation hns grown more serious. A bomb explosion injured many police at Cacrstochowa, Poland. This was the outcome of their brutal illtreatment of workmen. 11EHLIN, Jnn. 30. Reports from Berlin state that General Trepoff intends to hand Gorky and four other leaders to -the public executioner. The Berlin Tageblatt appeals to all literati, artists, and scientists in Germany to save Gorky. HOLY SYNOD APPEALS TO PEOPLE. FATHER GARPON BEING TRIED. St. PETERSBURG, Jan. .'lO. The Holy Synod adjures the ortiiodox to support the Czur ami the clergy, since without orthodoxy nnd autocracy Russia would be ruined. The Synod declares that foreign enemies have contributed considerable sums to create a civil wur and cause strikes, with the object of preventing the despatch of reinforcements 'and supplies to the Far East. It denounces Father Gurpon as a criminal, impudent priest, who is now before the Ecclesiastical Court for breaking his vows and forcibly removing from his clm)>el snered relics in order to deceive the workmen. An extraordinary Council of prominent advisers held at the Tsarkoe Selo advised the Czar to adhero to the reform programme already announced. While the Chief of Police states that all is quiet in Warsaw, other accounts indicute wholesale jrillaging] of many large shops, the sacking of the- State vodka and gunsmiths' Bhops. There have l>ecn numerous collisions between the strikers and Cossacks. The latter were specially brutal. LONDON, Jan. 30. The Times' St. Petersburg correspondent believes that only three hundred were wounded, because In the majority of the cases the troops fired high. GOVERNMENT REPRIMANDS ANTIBRITISH OFFICIALS. AN OFFICIAL APOLOGY, (Received Jan. 31, 9.30 p.m.) St. PETERSBURG, Jan. 31. Count Lamsdorft has notified that the Government has reprimanded Rudolf, the Moscow Chief of Police, and has ordered tho removal of the fii'lso placards posted at Libau and elsewhere. He also states that the District Governors have been warned to avoid such incidents'. Count Lamsdorft has also expressed regret for the unfortunate attacks on British Consuls at Warsaw nnd has directed a strict inquiry into the incidents'.. The military attache at the British Embassy nt St. FotersUurg has been sent to Warsaw to inquire into the recent outrage on the Consuls',

A PROCLAMATION FROM FATHER _ GARPON. ITS -AUTHENTICITY DOUBTFUL. (Received Jan. 31, 9.30 p.m.) St. PETEBSBURG, Jan< 31. A proclamation purporting to bo signed by father (ravpon is being circulated in Stt Petersburg adviwing workmen to resume work and avoid provoking' tho authorities since immediate revolt would result in tcrMtbjp disaster.

OPINIONS OF THE GRAND DUKE CYRIL (Received Jan;. 31, 9.45 p.m. l ) LONDON, Jan. 31. The Grand Duke Cyril, interviewed at San Remo, declared that the C?.ar was disposed to make concessions to workmen until he saw that their demands were ol a political nature. The Grand Duko also said that General Stocsscl would have- to account for his conduct in surrenderiljß Port Arthur, and that peuce with Jjftpnn is at present quite iiiiposxibli-. Alter Athmiral Kozhdestvensky has fought o. decisive action in Japanese waters peace wiU be within rendu The Grand Duke returns to Manchuria in March. .(Received Jam. 81, 9.4.5 p.m.) St. PETERSBURG, Jnn. 31. At Warsaw), Lodz, and l'etrikoff the State science schools are closed. The street lighting continues at Warsaw, where troops are committing isolated excesses, shooting several children and innocent jieople. It in a notice.afjlo fact tliat many girls are niingjling with the rioters. | A remarkable address, adopted uljjnost unanimously k>y the Provincial Assembly of Kharkoff, consisting of jmarshuls of the nubility, noblemen and members of Zemstvos, has been forwarded to the Czar, demanding in exceptionally bold language (he establishment of representative Governmvnt, and appealing to the Czar to build up an empire of five citizens possessing full rights, Hl)d d J'larmg, tluvt the bureaucracy has forfeited the country'« confidence. ENGLISH FINANCIAL HELP APPEALED FOR. i (Received Jan. :tl', 9.45 p.m..) LONDON, Jan. 81. nie Master of Dalliol, Sir Frederick Pollock, and a number of other prominent men, have formed a comnJittoe which appeals, for funds for the relief of the Russian strikers who they say,, arp facing want and death in the hope of winning liberty fne Committee of Russian Refon'nil! I""}' in V itod """"'ial help (r,. ln England. The Daily Mail denoun- «* the appeal as mischievous and declare, that to afford help w, d MOSCOW PET. STRIKERS RESUME WORK. (Received .lan. 31, 9.45 nm) St. PETERSBURG. Jan. 81. Owing to the masters' concessions most of the Moscow strikers havo lesumod work. Disturbances continue at Riga and Kovno. There were seventy caaualties at Riga on Saturday,