INTERNAL WAR

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8004, 15 December 1905, Page 2

INTERNAL WAR

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TROOPS SENT TO BALTIC PROVINCES. WORRMKX SUPPRESS A RIOT. RAILWAY MEN SUPPORT TELEGRAPHISTS. MUHDEIt OK A MANUFACTUREK. BANKS STOP PAYMENT. Received I t, 10.14 p.m. St. PiiTEiisiiL'itii, December 1-t. Twelve thousand Cossacks have been sent to the Baltic provinces, whero chaos reigns. A Governor-General, with plenary powers, has been appointed. Roughs looted the shops at Lodz. Workmen at the factories, armed with revolvers and iron bars, rushed into the street and dispersed tho rioters, injuring many. The Railway Men's Union at Moscow refuse to carry Government mails if the railway telegraphists aro punished for refusing to transmit Government messages. A German, owner of a groat spinning mill at Warsaw, has been murdered, at the instanco of the Terrorist Committee because ho appealed to the military for protection against the strikers. Two private St. Petersburg Banks, and one Moscow Bank have suspended. TROOPS AROUND THE IMPERIAL ; ' PALACE. POLAND'S DESIRES. Loxuo.v, December 13. Father Gapon, interviewed, said further revolutionary violence would needlessly cause re-;ielion. The people were not ready for full emancipation; the educatiou of tho massos was insufficient. Three hundred and fourteen cases of French cartridges, labelled "hardware," and consigned In Finland, were stopped at Copenhagen. St. Pr,TF,iisiin:u t December 13. There are 100,000 troops round Tsarkocselo, the Imperial Palace. Four hundred and seventeen Catholic clergy in Russian Poland resolved to propagate (he doctrine of Christian Democracy, demand autonomy for Poland, with a ballot and a separate Parliament. Refugees in Galiein report that General Sakharott'i" murderer was a locksmith's apprentice disguised as a woman, Revolutionists, rescuing him, enabled him to escape. General MadowilolY's cavalry stood their ground heroically at Harbin and the mutineers were routed. General Liuevilch urges repatriation , or the troops. German residents in liiga hf.Te organised a regiment for mutual protection and imported 1200 Mauser rides. Tliey have connected all the houses in the German suburb by electric alarms anil pierced the trails of the houses, enabling the inmates to move from house to house without using the streets.