THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7995, 5 December 1905, Page 2

THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA.

THK UNEMPLOYEDIN MOSCOW Dli WITT!-; DECLINES TO RECli'lVE A DEPUTATION. A GOVERNOR'S THREAT. Sr. I'jvTKit.sni'itii, December Ibere arc ] 30,01)0 unemployed in Moscow. Count de Witte declined lo receive a lelegraphistts' deputation on the ground that it would be violating the duty and fundamental principles of the Slate service, No civilised country would tolerate a Civil Service strike. Telegraphic communication between Uussia and the rest of Europe is intempted.

J he Prelect ot Moscow threatens tp arrest and banish all members of the Strike Committee. DUAL CONFLICTS AT KIEFF, MARTI A L LAW PROCLAIMED. AIiMY MUTIN BERING SPREADS. JEWS IMPLOUK PROTECTION. Received 1, y. it) p.m.

Sr. Pi:ti;ushi.'iiii, December 1. The. workmen at KiclT attacked the hooligans. Simultaneously the Sappers mutinied and attacked, the Cossacks, scores being killed and wounded. Martial law lias been proclaimed. The Bth Regiment of Dragoons at Willowiszk threatened to kill their officers unless they were paid more. The Uth Dragoons, at Ostrotenkn have also mutinied. The post and telegraph strikers at Warsaw are pouring oil of vitriol into the letter boxes. At Cliarkol) and NicolaritT the railway men have struck. They declare that the Government lias squandered the railway men's pension funds. A general railway strike is expected to-day. The Jews at Odessa implore the Powers to remonstrate with St. Petersburg so as to prevent a renewed and more terrible massacre, as proclamations have been circulated among most of the regiments at Odessa, calling oil the sol'iers to exterminate the Jews and destroy the newspaper offices, 011 the ground that both accuse the military of massacring,

TELEGRAPHISTS STRIKE EXTENDING, BUSINESS PARALYSED. AN AI!MUD KTSING ADVOGATED. BAD OUTLOOK FOl! THE J MVS. lieeeived 1, 11,50 p.m. St. PHXKusuriii'i, December 3. J lie l'innish telegraphists have struck, out of sympathy for the Russians. Business men in linssia realise that a supreme crisis lias arrived, all commercial and linaueial affairs being paralized. The Socialists parties at a joinl meeting decided that an armed rising was the only resource. General Katilbars has, according to the .Jews, informed the press that the troops were incensed at the attitude of (he .lews and the newspapers, and thai the ollicers were burning with revenge, and intended to purge Odessa of the •lews. He, therefore, was unable to guarantee that disturbances would not occur. THE DANGER OF BOMB MAKING. liuiiM:, Dec. I. An explosion occurred in a room oc-cupied-by I'ussians at Geneva, several inmates being injured. The police discovered some bombs there, also forged passsports and a secret printing press.