THE RUSSIAN RISING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7751, 1 March 1905, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN RISING.

EXTENSIYE TROUBLES IN POLAND. Peasantry Joining the Strikers. (Rrcvived Feb. 28, 9.20 p.m.) St. PETK.USIJL'RG, Feb. 28. Many of the Polish peasantry, having been excited by Socialists, are joining the sU-ike movement, and demanding a fifty per cent, rise in wages and the right lo retain their own language. ! One hiiiuired and thirty villages, including Siedlice, Pruszkoff, Lourez, and l'lotzk, have refused to receive an official proclamation in Russian. I Fitly villages are resorting to violence, burning' the Government alcohol shops. I The authorities are apparently helpless, and alarming developments are feared.

COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS. WISE RECOMMENDATION TO THE CZAR. MAXIME GORKY RELEASED. (Received Feb. 28, 9.-17 p.m.) St. PETERSBURG, Feb. 28. When the Committee of Ministers jWere considering the revision of the special laws to prevent social disorders, M. Durnovo, Assistant Minister for the Interior, declared that : domiciliary visits, expulsion, ana other punishments of the present administration instead of regular judicial procedure only caused exasperation. I M. de Witte said the Government ought to prevent evil instead of aiming only at repression. He pleaded the cause of the Jews 1 , whose lives are rendered insupportable. The Committee decided that laws must bo. positively defined, and exceptional measures strictly confined to times of disorder. It advised the Czar lo appoint a special conference to revise the laws relating to the security of the order of the State. The Czar having confirmed the conclusions for Gorky's release, he has | been compelled to proceed to Riga immediatelyi