RUSSIAN COSVULSIONS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7732, 7 February 1905, Page 3

RUSSIAN COSVULSIONS

-.' MAXIME GORKY HOT FREE. £ / Rewlationaiy Pamphlets in Loaves. St. PETERSBURG, Feb. 5. Owing *■" *e discovery of a number of revolutionary pamphle.s aboard warships at Sevastopol, leaves were cut open before distributing, and revealed copies oV a proclamation. Maxfane Gorßy, the novelist, -s still imprisoned in the Peter and Paul fortress, despite a positive announcement that he had been re'ieased. He was arrested for inciting o.flicers of the St. Petersburg gurrison to join the martyred people, andnot serve madmen who were always shedding blood, and who weft! afraid to receive a petition, but sacrificed Whole-hearted honest Russia.

v HEETIHG OF THE MOBILITY. DIVERSITY OF OPINIONS. (Received Feb. ©. 9.58 p.m.) St. PETERSBURG, Feb. 6. The Odessa University has suspended lectures, and K'.eff University has closed owing to the students making political denionse.iations. The strikers havo spread to Ekaterinoslav and Mariopol. Two addrwjes were submitted to. a meeting erf the nobility at Moscow. The first was Conservative, and expressed relj'ancc on the Czar's intention, after peace is established to re-organise Russia's internal life on the basis of a continuance of the autocracy. This was adopted by 218 to 148. A Liberal address, favouring elected representatives, wasV rejected by 213 to 153. Ultimately, ;__with the view of expressing the Assen»3y*s~ftm_}visih.'Si both were adot>ted.

The nobility of Yaroslav have urged the Czar to summon elected representatives to discuss the ChristMas decree. At Cherkofi a meeting' representatives of the Liberal minority of t-Ue Kursk nobility refused to sign an address to the Czar, and the Assembly closed in disorder. STRIKES SPREADING. GREAT UNREST CONTINUES. (Received Feb. (5, 10.1 p.m.) St. PETERSBURG, Feb. 6. Despite the absei.ee of prominent leaders, the strikes continue to spread over the governments of Warsaw, Petrozavodsk, Lublin, and Kazan. '" Martial law has been established at Kalisz and Siedlec. In a conflict between the crowd and the troops ot Lodz at the burial of the victims of the former troubles, two persons were killed and fifteen wounded.

LONDON, Feb. 5. The Chronicle's St. Petersburg correspondent says that 6000 reservists al Peterhon" mutineered ami are conGned to barrack's. Reuters Lodz correspondent states that ninety stifke leaders, mostly foreigners, are arrested daily. The Daily News says that journalists at SI. Petersburg, in a recent interview, declined TrcpolT's appeal to publish soothing versions of current events.