CIVIL WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8009, 21 December 1905, Page 2

CIVIL WAR.

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

PER UNITED PBEBB ASSOCIATION. ♦ COPYRIGHT.

A GENERAL STRIKE ORDERED. CITIZENS URGED TO DEFEND '-=■ THEIR RIGHTS. Received 20, 9.34 p.m. . St. Pkteesbueg, December 20. The Moscow labor leaders and workmen in all the districts of St. Petersburg assenting, have deeded that a, general political strike begins at noon to-morrow. •

The Union of Unions in a proclamation recapitulates the arrests made, and tho suspension of progressive newspapers; also that the Government promulgated a series of laws destroy, ing the bases of civil liberty, and threatening the rights of the people obtained after a long struggle and embodied in the Czar's manifesto. All citizens are urged to defend their rights,' and support the Council of Workmen's Delegates'in thoif struggle with the Government.

CONCESSIONS FOR THE TROOPS, EVEN TOWLS AND SOAP. • ~ ~ Received 29,10.40 p.m. " St. Petehbbuhg, December 20. A ukase has been issued which grants better food and increased pay for all the troops, and orders the issue of blankets, towels, and soap.

MUTINY OF COSSACKS. ANARCHY IN COUBLAND. TfiOOPS CAUGHT IN WlfiE entanglements. ' MUTILATING-; THE DEAD. PAPER MONEY REFUSED AT WARSAW. A ZEMSTVOIST CAUSES A SENSATION. Received 20,11.8 p.m. St. Petebsbpbg, Decomber 20. A detachment of Cossacks, ordered to Tamboff and Kurso, mutinied.

The "Novoo VremyaV Jfitau correspondent says, that' authority in all Hie country districts of Courland has been overthrown, and. that tho troops in the smaller towns; have concentrated at Mitau and Libau, and are on the defensive.

A company of Infautry and a squadron of dragoons were caught in wire entanglements at Tukkium during the night, and attacked from windows and! roofs. They lost thirty men. •

The crowd [gouged out the eyes an! severed the ears and hands of the dead. The leaders of the post and telegraphs strike at WarßawvJinrcr%t>)r arrested. Paper money is being refused on tho " Warsaw market, and gold is rapidly disappearing. General Irepoff is at Moscow, supervising measures of repression. A sensation was caused at St. Petersburg through Ajex(ii(der Stakhovitcli, * /Semstvojst, in a twp column lotter accusing Count Durnovo of using am official position in order to extor money from Army contractors.

MARTIAL LAW IN BALTIC PROVINCES. ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN" CARRYING MO3S T EY. St. Petebobph&, Deeomber 19. There aro indications that the condition in the- Baltic provinces is far worse than the semi-official Russian, news implies. , An unsuccessful attempt was on Saturday to wreck a train outside St. Petersburg, which was conveying twelve million sterling for payment o£ interest abroad. >

Eight thousand troops and twenty machine guns surround the fortress at Saints Peter and Paul, St. Petersburg, fearing an attompt to roloaso two hundred prominent revolutionary prisoners.

Martial law has been proclaimed in most of the Baltic provinces. A man loitering with a.bomb in his possession near Jtho house of Count. Durnovo, Minister for tho Interior, arrested.

; Armenians at Tiflis set fire to threw ' hundred Tartar houses to prevent residents from leaving. Fifty-seven perisbed.