RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7980, 17 November 1905, Page 3

RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS.

is Official lynchedFirther lisacre of Jews. The Figfatiig it YlidiiostocL 8t PETERSBURG, Nov. 15. Workmen at Libuu seize ' a Chancellery official and tried him for inciting a Jewish massacre He was sentenced to be shot dead. The crowd ch ered the ruffians. Police massacred Jews and intellectuals for three days at Xovgoro!.

The police organised massacres in three towns in the Moliloff district. The Chief Rabbi of Kishineff was soaked in petroleum and incinerated. It is reported from Titlis that 700 Armenians massacred 403 Tartars in the village of Govs, plundered the village and burned the houses. Jews at Suraloff bribed the police to secure passports, so that they might escape. Id gome oases £SO was paid. PABIS, Nov. 15. Public opinion and t'ue newspapers in Paris strongly condemn the procla-1 nation of a state of siege in Poland, l 66{ e ially as administrative autonomy was promised. Bt. PETERSBURG, Nov. 18.

Owing to the sentencing to death of a number of Kronstadt mutineers, the delayed fulfilment of the Imperial manifestoes, proclamation of martial law in Poland anil Lithuania, disorders directed against the classes and Jews, and to end other arbitrary Government acts, the Council of Labour delegates decided to proclaim to-day a gen ral strike throughout Russia. One hundred persons were killed in the riots which accompanied the destruction of Keiiivovio'.i, iu the Ekaterinoslay district. lore jdiarism and pillage at \ ladivostock were begun by rescrvis s, who we.-e dissatisfied at not being disband- i ed. Tlie greater part of the town was burned.

Tiree hundicJ rioters, mostly sailore and artillerymen, were killed or wounded on Mo iday. There are fears of a famine.

A strike lias begun on the ltultie and Warsaw lnilways.. Railwuymeu on other lines, incliiiing those in Kinland, are joining. An infernal mat-hiue was discovered under a i-ailw.iv at Warsaw.

lliiilnayinen at Mo-cow anil Chita have eirjlled themselves to protect citizens against hoo igans. Otgaiisers of Massacres Tianked by tie Czar. Fresh Outbreak Feared. Police Plunder Synapses. Enilishwonnn Sent Home. (Reteived Nov. 16, 0.41 p.m.) Bt. PETERSBURG, Nov. IG. The Strikers at Warsaw are resuming work, ami shops are re-opening. Tbe Czir personally thanked Gen--1 -eral Kaulharsand the Governor of Bess arabia, though both are considered to have organised the Jewish massacres". The Jews dread a fre3h outbreik at Kishinetf. The police at Odessa are constautl y guilty of predatory tyranny, and the y plunder the synigigues' jewels under pretext of searching for l»m'i s. The British L.*gation at St. Petersburg i# arr.ingi.ig to send all tingle English women home, fearing hooligan excesses

letting in Faioar of a Commune. Preparing for Street CcnSic'sThe Czar Changes bis Quarters. (Received Nov. 16; 10.1T p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Nov 16. After a meeting of people favouring %he establishment of a Commune, the authorities placed machine guns and patrols everywhere in preparation for street conflict*.

Many persons wish to flee, only th« steamers which are available are chaining prohibitive prices.

Workmen threaten that half a million men will make nn aimed demonstration at St. Petersburg at 2 o'clock to-dav.

The Czar lias gone to Tsai-skoesdo. Most of the troops at Kronstiult have been hurried to the capiUl.

An Armed Crowd in St. Petersburg. Money Market Agitated. Agrarian Disorders Spreading. An Allnring Report. (Received Nov. 16, 10.49 p.:r,.) St PETERSBURG. Nov. Hi. Crowds of strikers armed with knives and re vol vers assembled in tlie streets of St. Petersburg, hinging the Marseillaise. The Bourse is terribly agitatel, anil four per cents, fell to 84. A slump Ims occurred in hank shares. Only the Finnish ani! Moscow railways are working. The papers have stopped publication. Agragarian disorders are spreading in the province?, though it is iej«i ted that Count de Wittc proposes to endow each peasant with 12 acres. The Primate's Message to tbe Holy Synod. (Per Press Association.) DUN"I" D'X, Nov. IG. The Primate asked the Premier to request the Governor to send the following cable to the Home Office: " The Anglican Church in New Zealand earnestly pleads with the Ilidv Synod of Russia to denounce the massacre of the Jews."