INTERNAL WAR

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8002, 13 December 1905, Page 2

INTERNAL WAR

MURDER OF LANDOWNERS ' COMMENCED! PEASANTS BECOME BOLDER. CHURCHES DESECRATED. .'•] Received 12,10 p.m. St. Pbtjsbsbubg, December 12, Many of tho Russian telegraphists have resumed work. Peasant raids are increasing ia audacity. Churches in the Baltic provinces havo been dosccrated, and many land, owners murdered. . COUNT DE WITTE'S VlElfo. HOPES AND FEARS. HYPNOTISING POWER OP REVOLUTIONISTS. A VEILED THREAT. Received 12, 9.35 p.m. London, December 12, ; Count de |Witte has informed the "Daily Telegraph's" St. Petersburg correspondent that unless the elements of society offered a moral resistance to the advance of |anarohy, and co-opera-ted with the Government in executing the Czar's manifesto, the situation would become truly disquiotening and serious. Personally, he still entertained some hope, but the community was liable to be hypnotised by the revolutionists, who were resolute, united, and perservoring.

If, said Count do Witte, anarchy continued, the nation miglit demand a forcible suppression of the revolution, and then tlic manifesto might' be re> pealed or suspended. lu that event he would retire.

The Czar consults M. Pobicdinosteff (cx-Procurator of the Holy Synod) on all questions of importance.

' HARBIN SACKED. REVOLT OP THE TROOPS. RUSSIAN AND CHIN] ;8E CIVILj lANS MUKDEI ED. CAVALRY FIGH'.' THE MUTINEI^S^ A BLOODY FIGHT. • St. Pkteiisbi'bo, December 11. At Harbiu drunken mutineers raided the hospitals, the comforts for patients were oaten, and and nurses bound and thrown into snowdrifts. Many Russian and Chiaeso were murdered.

Sonic of tlie officers sympathising with tile mutineers opened the wheat and flour storehouses, which the mob burned.

j All the troops cheered at the sight of the l>i\riimg city. General Madowiloffi's cavalry attacked the rioters, and'-.a bloody fight at close quarters ensued.'

CZAR THANKS THE COSSACKS, SAKHAKOFF'S DEATH, MACHINE GUNS FREELY USED, St. Petsbsbijbq, December 11. M. Durftovo has issued a proolama. tion forbidding employees of the post and telegraph to form unions. The sum of £50,000 will be distributed among [the more deserving of thoso rosuming work. The post and telegraph strike at Kieff has euded. The railway mass meeting at Riga was interrupted by tho arrival of machine guns. Tho Czar thanked the Cossacks for their self-sacrifice and loyal services during tho war, and for, preservation of order. Depositors have been officially warned of risks of withdrawals from tho* Russian Savings Banks., Tie latter are perfectly sure. General Sakharoif's murderess, elegantly dressed, presented a petitipni asking for redress for tho pillage of her property, and then shot hirnt through the lungs and heart. Despite prouusos, the, Government lias revived, in the worstjforms, pros* restrictions and the punishment tvf many editors. The latter declare tl> xy will suspend publishing. Owing to the arrest of M. Kror ista- • loff, president of tho Workers' Delegates, a general strike is consj dered inevitable. When the troops at Harbin learned they were liot to be sent home until the spring, and wore to be compelled to face the winter on .scarce supplies: of food and clothing, thousancbi paraded the streets like burning the shops and plundering. Some seized an ox]',ress train at'; Vladivostok and raided the Govern! 1 ' "'cut -Stores, They reUrued laden witik supplies of drink, seve ral machine gnus, many rifles au d much anamwi. tion. A great or.\§y followed, and when they wero savagoly drunk Harbin was sacked, tha mutineers using tho ma. ; clime guns freely.