THE RUSSIAN DISTURBANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7733, 8 February 1905, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN DISTURBANCE.

Workers' Delegates to Petition the Czar r THE WARSAW INCIDENTS. St. PETERSBURG, Feb. o. A thousand workmen declare that the deputation to the Czar, referred to in a cable on the 2nd inst., were really police agents and, did not represent the St. Petersburg operatives. Delegates representing four hundred thousand St. Petersburg workmen have resolved to petition the Czar for an audience in order to present a memorandum describing their moral, material, and social condition, and pray him not to entrust the Bureaucracy with the introduction of improvements. LONDON", Feb. 6. The Daily Mail states that one hundred thousand workers at Sosnowice have struck. They art well armed. There has been fresh lighting and bloodshed at Radom. Old an*t t'niate believers (Greek United) at Siedlice burnt three orthodox churches. Seven hundred arrests have been made in Warsaw. Two hundred were expelled from the gymnasia for daring to petition the directors for the introduction of the Polish language. They will be permanently excluded from the Government schools, and have to serve three years in the ranks instead of a year as volunteers. The Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg correspondent states that the ukase to be issued by 11. YerniololT, Minister for Agriculture, directing the preparation of a scheme of internal reforms, also of inquiry into the massacre, has been shelved. Major Napier, nilitary attache to the Brieish Embassy, has concluded an inquiry into the outrage on the Consuls at Warsaw. Captain Murray declares that the attacks were such as might have happened to anybody in the streets. The incident is considered closed. ASSASSINATION IN FINLAND. (Received Fob. 7, 11.1 '2 p.m.) St. PETERSIURO, Feb. 7. Johnson, Procurator of the Finnish Senate, who was unpopular owing to pro-Russian sympathies, "'has been assassinated. Three revolver shots wero fired into his residence by an unknown man giving the name of Gadd. A detective who was in attendance at the Procurator's house fired his revolver at Gadd and wounded him. Thereupon! he was arrested. FURTHER CONFLICTS. (Received Feb. 7, 1J.12 p.m.) St. PETEHSIUHU. Feb. 7. There are continuous conflicts between strikers and the military at Kalisz, twenty strikers being killed - and many wounded. Traffic on the railway at Sosnowice and Olkusz is suspended. The situation at Warsaw and Lodz remains unchanged. A few strikers are resuming work. RESOLUTIONS OF THE NOBLES. (Received Feb. 7, 10.24 p.m.? St. BETERSMTtG, Feb. 7. A minority of the Moscow nobility have drafted a fresh address to the Czar stating that an elected assembly would increase the Sovereign's prestige by creating for him a living force in the confidence of the socioty summoning them. Representatives are needed to appease "find tranquillise public feeling. The vices of the Bureaucracy, though masked, were patent to all Russia in the Christmas decree. The Grand Dukes persuaded the Czar to the reception of the thirtyfour workmen as an easy alternative to reform. The nobility of St. Petersburg, by 158 votes to 20, urged the Czar to follow his ancestors' example and summon elected representatives to participate in legislation. The Emperor's conlidence in the nation would soon dispel internal troubles and strengthen the loyalty of the people. A RUSSIAN LOAN m .MOUUEII UF.YOU TtOXARY MOVEMENT. (Received Feb. 7, 10.34 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 7. Renter's agency states that Russia has placed a loan of forty millions sterling at five per cent, in Paris. All news relating to the strikes at Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Irkutsk has been suppressed. Madame Kuga, an opera singer, has been expelled from Russia for congratulating an officer on the Russians' first- victory over the Japanese, in allusion to the events ol January 22nd. According to the Daily Mail, th« authorities are unable to cope with a great revolutionary movement which is being prepared in Trans-Caucasia.