THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8000, 11 December 1905, Page 2

THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA.

♦ i... ATTITUDE OF LABOUR ORGANISATION. Received December 10, 4M am St. I'KTnusßDiiG, December 9, I'he Labor Organisation here and at Moscow have waived (he eight hours demand until they are bettor prepared* They have also decided to avoid partia l strikes. THE NEW GOVERNOR OP SARATOFF. WHOLESALE MIGRATIONS FROM ST. PETERSBURG. CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP TO RESIGN. THE RAILWAY STRIKE. Received 10, d,26 p.m. St. Putekshuko, December 9. General Muksimevitcli has been ap. pointed Govcrnor-General of Saratoff, with instructions to continue the lata General Sakharoffs special missioni At least 30,000 inhabitants of Bt, Petersburg have migrated to Finland and elsewhere since September. Thousands of Polish Radicals sum. moned the Catholic Archbishop of Warsaw to resign, on the ground . that he was a reactionary. The mutineers at Harbin have kijjed niany of the offlers. Mauchurian advices state that censor* and officers of the Reserve aro not; allowed to return to Russia. The Samaua, Slatoust, Riga, and Orloff railway men have struck as a protest against martial law in the Samara aud Baltic provinces resnectively..

A GENERAL STRIKE IN JANUARY. 'stopping government tele GIUMS. p6stal stpjke ended. PKESS ItESTKfCTIONS BEmoved. St. Pktebsihibg, December 9. Workmen everywhere in the Provinces approve of a general strike in January. The, Head-office of thoKailway Union Ct Moscow has telegraphed to the men's leaders in Moscow prohibiting railway telegraphists f«m transnufc ting Government inessagei, Lost is, Dec. fl. The Times' St. Pctcrsbi rg eorrcspou. dent reports that Count de Witto has reinstated the who were dismissed for This-concedes the right for auuion, and the postal strike is therefore ended, but the telegraphists cannot be restored for some time, owing to the oflieors being insufficient .to man the wires. Peutcr's St. Petersburg uorrcspondent reports that the State Council has abolished all the press restrictions reHinted by the Press Union. Four per cents at St Petersburg, in i I response to Paris transactions on Thurs- , day, touched 77, but Russian securities in Paris relapsed on Friday.