RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8007, 19 December 1905, Page 2

RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR.

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

TBU UNITED I'HKSS ASSOCIATION.— COVVIIIOHT.

SEVERE FIGHTING IN TRANSCAUCASIA. * TROOPS USE ARTILLERY. • TURKISH SUBJECTS KILLED. AUTOCRACY VIOLENTLY DENOUNCED. THE INDICTMENT PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS. EDITORS AND DELEGATES ARRESTED. Received 18.10.1 p.m. St. Petbbsbchg, Deeomber 18, The streets in Batoum have been barricaded, and there is fierce fighting between the troops and revolutionaries, the military employing artillery. Many were killed, inoluding Ottoman Subjects, The Porte is sending Tessels to remove refugees. There is a similar situation at Poti and Kutais. The Council of Workmen's delegates and committees of the peasants are in congress. The democratic workmen's party and the social revolutionaries of St, Petersburg have issued a violent indictment against autocracy, which is responsible for the chaotic Btate of the country, while they allege that dishonest finance has brought Russia to the vcrgo of bankruptcy. They further state that the troops are hungry, consequently being in a state of revolt, and that the Government must be overthrown, deprived of the taxes, and a constituent Assembly summoned. The document adds that the workers have decided not k o allow the payment of debts con- : tracted [by the Government since ther date of its openly paging war against ; the whole nation. . The chief newspapers, excepting the Novoe Vremya, [published the indictment, but all copies were ordered to be confiscated, and publication of the papers temporarily suspended. Meanwhile copies wore sold for a shilling each under the eyes of the police. The editors have been arrested, also the whole 250 members of the Council of Workmen's Delegates. POSTAL AND RAILWAY STRIKE. MINOR CONCESSIONS. A GOVERNMENT COMMUNIQUE. WHOLE DISTRICTS UNDER ARMS. _,. TROOPS ROUTED. ' Received 18, 11.15 p.m. London, December 18. The " Daily Telegraph's " St. "Peters, j burg correspondent says that a, postal and railway strike will bo proclaimed

to-day. The Grenadiers at Moscow liavo submitted, aud ten, including the leader, Schabaroffi, have been arres ted. Minor demands, including privacy of letters, increase of ration £ and regular payment have been granted. The telegraph ofliecs, M d most of the post offices at Moscow are open, some of the telegraphists replacing tho sorters and postmej. , Another " Communique," duo to the indictment, has been issued in which the Government consider it their duty to execute reforms on the basis of ther Manifesto, and believe that the best method of fighting the revolutionaries; is to rely on the laws, regulations, and ordinances. Should thcjo fail, then the necessity for altogether exceptional / measures will become evident. / The "Times" says that the whoWbf Livonia and Koons is under and that regiments of dragoons and infantry were routed and a niilitaiy traim wrecked. • /

BELATED CONCESSIONS. LAW AGAINST STRIKES. COMPENSATION FOB INJURIES •BY STRIKES. • Received 18, 11.45 p.m. ' St. Petehsbubg, Decembr jr 18. In the Communique the Gov orwueut considers the railway men's complaints for demands are largely justified. The Council of State inchvdes sixteen' million roubles in the cs Mmates for 1906 for improvement in t!/« conditions of service. It is also announced ih a t the mini, mum saury of post or t< JegrapU officials has been fixed at 468; instead o£ 300 roubles, with a quin 1 quonnial rise, of salary in the case erf an o fli c ; a i w jj o!je conduct is good. Halt a million ro aides arc to bo distributed to the telegraph officials for working overtime /.luring the railway strike.' The Caw hay Sanctioned a hjw imposing imprisonment on pcrsoit.s inciting, or beginning, or participating in a! strike at railway and stations, while membership of .• associations whose aim is tho production of strikes entails fortress imprison ji, t . u t of sixteou to forty eight nu j„i.hs. Wages will bo unpaid during all arbitrary stoppage, Employees injured ni llt , ttltlli or j n- . capacitated by arc receive compensate, n or a pension, and,, if killed, their f wi ll bl , ~r ovidcd tor. NEGOTIATING WITH REBELS. THEIR DEMANDS. FIGHTING AND INCENDLABTSM Received 19, 1.2 a.m. St. I'dtkksmtko, December 18. Tiie Municipality at Riga, after notilying ilie Nobles, entered into nogoti. alions with the rebels. The Utter demanded, in re! urn for the surrender lof seventeen hostages, recognition of [the Lithuanian Republic by the Nobles, and the abolition of martial law. There is serious fighting and ineendiarism at Mitau. The castle at Ljm* berg was saturated with petroleum apjtfl on :^^^M Out of 120 Dragoons in district H are missing. JB^^^H Tnofro)ps mil people aloi district are rofusod to pay burnt thcJGovevnmeut uffic^^^^^H