RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7974, 10 November 1905, Page 3

RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS.

-t Workmen Administer GoYerment it Helsingfosr. Troops Landed from Warships. Terrible Kissicres at Kieff. losen and Children Outraged and Strangled. (Received N'ov. 9, 8.10 a.m.) St. PETERSBURG, -Nov. 8. With the support of the National Guard, p the workmen at have been ailministering the Government since Thursday and are preparing, in response to the appeals of other toum ami subject to the Czar's sanction, to elect on Saturday an interim Uovemmeut. The troops havequitted the town and are encamped out.iidc. Fifty thousand troops and three gens were landed from the warsliips. The guns at Evecb irg for resi were trained on HeUiogfon. Prince Otwlensky, the Governor, took refuge aboard the Slava The Cxar'a manifesto arrived oi Saturday, bat was withheld owing to the n aeliinatioos of Russian officials representing tliat * Finland bad risen to secure independence. A foal manifesto was published on Monday. It instructs the senate to proviaionally remain in office so a* to elaborate and introduce into the Diet Bills esttblis .ing a Parliament on the basis of uniier.-al suffrage, liberty of the press and speech, and association. The Czar bopes that these measures will strengthen the ties binding Finland to the monarcb. Ministers >t St. Petersburg have elatwratedan important extension of the National Duma franchise by considerably lowering the properly rental qualification.'", and giving tile workii.g clxises 2 ■ representatives, being an arerage of one per quarter million constituents. It also extends the t aaftage to the hollers of High .School diplomas. The Duma-will cnns : st of CO3 members. A doctor at Kietf wriies tliat twenty five Ibo 11-ami Jews there were killed and wounded, a thousand women and children being Outraged and strangled. He declares that the Government and the Grand Duke organised the massacre. Tartars Instigated to Attack Armenians. The Dima at a Stop-gap. „ Jeis Demand Trepol s Pnn>s!iment. Officials Prevent Reforms.

(Received No\. 9, 5.13 p.m.) St. I'KTKK.SBURG, Nov. 9. It is persistently rumoured at Till is that, the llovcrnnirnt are instigating the Tartais to attack the Armenians. Count <le Hitlc, in discussing the situation with leading Zemstvovsts, fcdmits (hit the Duma is not a speciflc for national ills, y«-i tlircv was nothing else at present available, lie * pledged his word of honour to support ih; proposal (or a constituent assembly i[ the members of the Duma urged it. The Times' St. Petersburg correspondent says that the Knpineers' Union accuse the (iovcrnuienl of meeting the dark elrmenls of society against the students and workmen. * Tlie Jews demand that Cini.-i.il Tripoli shall he handed ovrr to a popular tribunal for punishment. Alt official communique, issued at St. Feter&bi rg, while claiming that Were are indications of genera! appeasement, admits ttiat some of local administrative officials who are enemies to she new system arc fomented dLs inter i n order to prcthe rr.tHsation of reforms.

Bseoistriptiiig the Ministry, ia KxceDent Selection. Measwes, Not Men Required, Reformers Must Prevail. * (Rcce vtd Nov. 9, K. 51 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 9. The Times' -St. Petersburg correspondent states that L'ounte dc Witic (the Premier) has made some alterations in the Cabinet. Prince Wrusofl (a Liberal) is Minister of the Interior ; M. M. J. Sliipofi, who is a younger brother tf M. M. KhipoH, a former Zemstvo leader, takes th.> portfolio of Finance ; Kugtne Troubetzkoir, a professor at Kieß University, and brother of the ex-Rrctor of Moscow University, becomes Minister o( Education, while M. M. Shipoff is •Minister of Agriculture. The correspondent adds "The selection is excellent, but measures,-Hut men, are required. Count de Witte's * catch words, 'The unity and greatness of Russia,' may temporarily rally the ignorant, but those who won the present concessions, namely, the constitutionalists and socialists, will remain alooß, and are bound, sooner or later, to enlist the peasants and workers. This apprehension prevents ' 'be Government from yielding on the main questions of universal suffrage and a constituent Assembly." Advice to tie Railway Men Twporising With Universal Soffrage The Planish Manifesto (Received Nov 'J. lot.", p m , St. PETKKJSIH It(J. \„ v . llie Railway Vnion at St. I'etersburg lias a<lvis.-l the railwav »iien to store thvir nrms until the lm> luent for a decisive encounter arrives, and then to risx* as one man and win a comph-te victory•. Then- is a serious agrarian movement iu several of the Volga provinces. The Liljerols hmv advised ("oum Witt-.- to rely on the counsels of the Zwnstvos ill the elaboration of an ;n> ceptublo sultrag,;. ami i„ n,,. s „|,',. r _ vision of Duma elections. Tho limes' St. tl*elershiirg corn-s----|H>ndent. slates tfrat tho Gjfceriiuieiii is discussing tho question if uniyersiHTrage, ami may possibly ndopt a jit'Kliliud scbeuic if the 'Zcmntvos are * willing to ucci'|it the Miflrage in t| lu wcomi degnetf /or i».-asants. ami a direit ballet for the rest of the population. r The l>ail\j stales thai the Czar issued tlx- Kinuish mamk-, to I without consulting- Count de Witte. Fierce Fight With Cossacks Important Resignations (lleceidvd Nov. !l. km.-, p.m.) ODKSSA, Nov. 9. Puring sevent'rn hours' lighting at .Xasakoirali, near !l!atoiiui. armed rioters. ehi< fly :/\ii||i 1,0m1.5. Killnl 1".-. oi.l of |o„ Cossack*. tth ., hail j»reMous|, ln„ „,i| the \ illages in the nrighlKjiirhoi/:!. The mol> mtuckH th.« a t Tiuii.sk, ninl Wur inrisiml. The Coveniors of Lo.l/ ii M< l «ar!<a» bale prohibited political huntings. ■Prince \ ladimir'n .n*signal ion rf the commamlershii. of the (iuaid an.l uf the military district .if St. I'Hoi.,burg has Ihvh accepted ; likewisthat of Princu KhilkofT. r Police Par-he; Massacres of Jews A Protective Gmrd Promised < Received Not. 10. 0.3 a.ln.T St. I'K'l K'ltSIW HC. Nov. 0 There a-e ivpoils at <>d.-ssa tlial tho police are stn'nuously organising a fresh masf-ai re of Jews. The Barristers' L'nioji iiuidyres Couut dt

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