CIVIL WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8008, 20 December 1905, Page 2

CIVIL WAR.

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A GENERAL STRIKE DECREED, 'l RELEASE OF WORKMEtttf- J DELEGATES. -, VJ] NARROW ESCAPE OF MOSCOW \ I POST-OFFICE. , § J SWEDEN SENDS WARSHIPS. 'Tjf DRAGOONS CALLED TO >] RETREAT. : ~ j RIGA QUIET. i J. Reoeived 19, 11.31 p.m. v fj Sr. Pbteesbueo, December 19. 1 A new Couneil of Workmen's Dele- ;1 gates has decreed an immediate general J strike, subject to Moscow's approval The old Counoil was released yeiter. '& day, excepting thirty-two, who refused 4 their names. ~s \

An infernal machine, worked by i' clookwork, was discovered at the Hos- - " cow post office, just as it was about to ■ J

explode. % Railway communication between St, "* yJ i Petersburg and Riga b.a» been 're. \m storod. . "'WI

Sweden has despatched warships to M St, Petersburg-and Ejga. m The people threw \ bombs at the ~M Dragoons at Siegmundskoff station, "M killing and wounding thirty and com- *M pelling their retreat Thereafter, M houses were sacked and fired, I '1 ty is semi-officiaUy reported at St."' I Petersburg that everything is quiet at Jj Riga, and that no attacks are being fa made on persons or property. -fl Throughout the general strike the JJ accounts relating to incendiarismand f'j murder have referred"to crimes in Hie jJ interior of the Province

GERMANY AVOIDS OFFERDINff * RUSSIA. i HBWSPAEEjMnrQTUBE INTER. * DICTIONS. ' '! SENTENCES ON MUTINEERS. 1

Received, 19, 9.44 p.m. F Beblin, December 19. V Prino von Bulow has refrained? jfrom sending warships to Kiga or jLibau. while there is a legal Govern- ! ment, lest he should offend Russia. St. PETSHSBtruQ, December 19. sjk ' The newspapers at S;. Petersburg jand Moscow ignore the interdictions. gH \ The miliary Courts Cronstad« sentenced some of the mutineer* ifiM service with the disciplinary battalion,' 1 with from two to twenty.four imprisonment, the ■ others being ad, '» quitted,

DE WITTE'S REPLY TO THE* ' ZEMSTVOSTS/ A A WARNING. r ,f' SOLDIERS DEMAND ABOLITION }* OF MARTIAL LAW. I . London, December 18. / Prince von Bulow (German Chancel. \ lor) is chartering steamers to remos Germans from Riga, Libau, and Rovß. The Russian Government has rodL> } '->% ted five million sterling abroad, Jre- '4jf sumably as interest on the public dfcbt. M St. Petbbsbubo, December 18, $ Count de "Witte, Replying to the '}. Zemstvosts" memorial, says ho is un- ;,;] able to entertain petitions going before '1 the Czar's manifesto, and that it is im- | possible to forestall the Duma's aotson. / All classes are warrifto remember Vtho consequence of,Jf supporting ihq •,'{ Government. f- , K * The journal Xiuss says it is evident Jl the nation mul organise against Count "M de Wittc likf the Brest Regiment. 1 The Sevastopol mutineers at Mos- J&k eow, regretting, being misled by the '^fgl ! revolutionary propaganda, reralted. •' M against their ringleaders, and rushed. II the streets. They oheered- the C«r >|j and handed the ringleaders over to tho .•'fl authorities. ■ Lfl

Four thousand soldiers at Irkutsk "1 resolved to demand the abolition of ')] martial law and the, convocation of' a ~4 constituent assembly. *Sj Red Cross funds are being invest** ■ .-.<<! in St. Petersburg to sustain Bussiao, ''S rentes. , i A Ukase empowers all Governors and'. <& municipal authorities, in tho event of -|| interference with railway, postal, or- ■.~ji telegraphic communication, to impose- *-« full or modified martial law. /]% The Governor has ordered dissohv '• 'M tarn of the Railway Union. Bevok- (% tionaries interpret this as a provocation *%& to precipitate a struggle before disaffec* ?| tion permeates tho army. ■, \ *