THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7963, 28 October 1905, Page 3

THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA.

RecommeDdatioQs of the Council.

Inns tod Amionitton Stiitd

Deartb of Food at St. Petersburg

(Heceiki-d Oct. 2K, n:,O a.m.) SI. riHT-KMll ltO. (lei. "J

A ukase has I'l.u i'l llrc ial Tripoli i\l the head oi tile Si. IVtvisburg garrison. •, 'Phu Council of .Ministvih has rrcommcndcd the Czar to establish a Cabimt. the rrctiiior's title to Inrrvshkut of the Council, with the to proposo candidates for Ministerial posts, except those of ForAffairs. War, ami Muiine. uinch Ministers when appointed uiusl approved bv the Court. 11. <lv Witte has been appointed I'resident of the Council, with unlv powers. Ik- has suiiimoiiid the Ihc Council and decided on the immediate granting of freedom to thi press and right of meeting. Some cars filled with arms ami ammunit ion arrived at a Finnish railway station trom St. ■l'ctersburg, and w\-re emptied liefon; the police arrived to taKc possession. Jfo arrests were made. Milk carts at t-he same terminus ... .jrero prevented troui starting for the town. The police are licit interfering with Ibc strikers. Many quarters, ol' St. lVtcrsburg arc without bread ami milk. General Trv|mfl oi-dcrvd all provision shops to open, otherwise tht hotelkeepers would l,« imported within 2-1 hours. Troops ore quartered in every part of the city, the Cossacks and infatvjry. patrolling the streets. Workmen's meetings contiuue in - different quarters. TUB KNIA'/i I/OTEMKIN ISL KNT I BY IN'CENDIAUIES. j INKAM liV KliKl-SH TO <U'I'A. (Kccei ved Oct. 28. i.16 am.) .St. I'ETTEKSIH HC, Oct. 27. Advicts from Sebastopol state thnl incendiaries burnt the battleship Kniaz I'otemkin. A patrol of infantry at Warsaw refused mount guard in the street. Coal in Led/ is 20 toubles a ton. A DIVIDED COINCIL - AXOTHEK VKHSION OK M. DE WITTE'S REI'I.Y. SI'KEAD OK THE STIiIKE.

(Iteciivnl Oct. If, I ami St. I'ETEUSIH'IMi- Oct. 27. The limjority of the Ministers favoured an immediate constitution, but the minority' sccu'ivd M. d> .Witle's appointment, lieing doubtful whether his Liberal prolamine will lie of any avail now. Another version of M- >!>' tu ' s ril'lv to tile deputation of workmen is that ™rl universal sultrap.would leatl to bribery mid K n >' ta ~ p',taUslM the power. lie instanced America, and ailil.ti that it ,ht '' a '" lnhnl JKrcHlv of Moscow and other cities attack.-.1 me sinkers, ami th Government HI in the iinudir «» I rict. the tv« rkii.B wo " W His hearers rcmamul uniiioyd. The railway line to Hnland is the imly railway working. Sir Charles llardutge (llnlish \m %as.sa.lor, sailed opportunely as tta strike has since exteivded l.i the

at Kroustadt is suspended.

COSSACKS ATTACK WUIIKMKS.

RAILWAY HKIIKVK DKKTKOY™

AN OW.ASISKD S.M.I'. OK AUMS

" A PROVISIONAL KKYOIXm.N ARY liOVl'-RNM'-NT

PROMOTING AS ARMKI) KISINO

(Received Oct.-2H, 13 aw.) st i»l-;ti;ksblk(., Oct. seven thousand workmen met at th "«sM works. lh, Cossacks, attacking the v ''" UltlUcl 1 . Stones thrown by the men injured canal, south of St- Petersburg, lias been ,, . ( The workon" at the new Admiralworks at St. Petersburg, where the new vessels Uayon, Pallaila, ami two otiters are under construction, have struck, as have those at anothcr n* v »l yardTUc leaders of the Social Democratic Party have organised a sale ul arms to the strikers, with 1> cartridges lor each lifle. The Ministry has confirmed tluales intends! to iui|>-jK' the :»ilway men's condition of sci' i 'i«c and v;ges. The revolutionaries net at lira University of St. Petersburg and announced the formation of a provisional revolutionary Uovtrninent at Kharkoffj The Governor of Kharkoff has been wrested. * Collections were made at St. Petersburg University in support l' an armed rising. An infantry division has been audcd to the garrison.

the troops do deadly work STRIKERS OBTAIN COMPLETE ' MASTERY. ; (Received Oct. 28, I Hi a.m.) St. PETERSBURG, <>et. 27. Infantry volleyed at the strikers a" Zgierz, a number being killed and wounded. The Dragoons, by charging an,i volleying, dispersed HMO workmen, who were parading al .Fabianice, with re.i flags. Two were killed and fourteen wounded. The strikers have obtained complete mastery in the municipality, of Kursn. officious speak fearlessly OF FREEDOM, THE AUTHORITIES INACTIVE. (Received Cel. 'X I.K a.m.) St. PCTKRSHURfi, Oct. 27. Great meetings have been lii-Jd a' St. Petersburg University, many "f----lic?rs antl soldiers being pres.lit. Several of the former spoke fearlessly ofreedom. Otlur speakers gave veni. to vi<|lent denunciations of the Czar and bureaucracy, without evoking any protest from tlie authorities, who; hesitate to use force. many were k lied.