DISTRACTED RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7754, 4 March 1905, Page 3

DISTRACTED RUSSIA.

Russian mimm deserting. LetteriFrom Father Garpon. LONDON", March 2. Russian dragoons deserted across the Austrian frontier, and will emigrate to the United States. PARIS, March 2. ' M. -Inures' paper, lluma-iiiie, ha» published a remarkable letter purporting to be written by Father Garpon calling on the Czai"to abandon the throne, since innocent Mood separates him from the people. "Bombs and dynamite a wait nl; assassins l at the people." Father Garpon appeals to the workmen to organise an armed insurrection and shoot the chiefs of police, governors, and generals of gendarmerie, lie also urges ihe destruction of Government and civic property, but insists on respect of private property. "The people must rise as one man at the signal from the committee of defence, v - ---i 60,000 STRIKERS IN MOSCOW. RAILWAY TRAFFIC INTERRUPTED. St. PETERSBURG, March 2. There are 00,000 stiineis in Alosjcow. The strike is spreading. | A strike of railway men has occurred at Krasnovodsk, Uie trans-Cas-ipian terminus. The railway in the | lrkutsk district is blocked. | The sliike is general in trans-Bai-kal. I The strikers at Irkutsk show a |disquicting attitude. The troops there arc insufficient. A quarter of a million colliers at JDonetz have struck, and seized the dynamite depot. SITUATION GROWING WORSE. PAYMENT OF TAXES REFUSED. St. PETERSBURG, March 2. The situation in St. Petersburg and Warsaw is worse. Eight thousand workmen in Warsaw and Lodz have gone to the villages spreading their propaganda. Peasants in the Radom district refuse to pay taxes . and oiler armed resistance. Soldiers are repressing a rising of Kutais. Drunken officers tired on pedestrians, and several schoolboys | were shot.