CIVIL WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8010, 22 December 1905, Page 2

CIVIL WAR.

THE CLIMAX APPROACHING. r APPEAL TO i WORKMEN AND TBOOPS. A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC " ; wanted. - ' ' ' GENERAL RAILWAY BTRIKH, ' WATER FAMINE IMMINENT. i I' '■ ■ *' -"T'f'.l - 'V'i HOW THE RAILWAYS' ABE TO - BE UTILISED. WORKERS SEIZE FACTORIES, CHAOS AND PLUNDER.

Received SI, 10.2 p,a, BT. pRTgESBtrBG. A eonfereneeattended by the Council of wrkea'i delegates, railway men, J ijind various revolutionary partial hat issued an appeal to the workmen and ' troops to rise and establish * Demo, cratic Republic. ' • , The employees an trenfcy-two #«1. J ways notify thai theririir'tirtioipat. $ in the strike. - ' ? f ;)

| All newspaper*, tales* controlled by workmen, are to be luspendfedl , A general strike at Moscow, inefod. ing all railways radiating from thence, : has began. A Water, famine is imminent. The Railway Union at Mobcow hal resolved to run trains for repatriating ' | the Manchuriaft Army, others convey, f ing grain to the famine-stricken dis. tricts.. The strikers soiasd the famous Settafi Company's printing and publishing, works, and begun to print a proletariat i; organ. , | A body of 600 armed | Yaroalay seized the Koriskin factory, "< declaring it to bo public property, There are renewsd disturbances at 1 i Sevastopol, , Cossacks and other troops at Batoiua are plundering Mussulman hbuses.

SUPPRESSING POLISH NEWS« 4 PAPERS. ! I TWO REGIMENTS MUTINY. J? A BLOODY CONFLICT. \ STRIKE OP FIREMEN. RAILWAY STRIKE BEGUjf. >f *| 1 4 Received 21, 10.40 p.m. . : JSP St. Pbtbksbuio. DocWbef The authorities at VTkmj h»w4' : i elosed the Polish Socialists* neWsp»pe| 4= office and arrested the editors. j - , V Two Infantry Regiments at 'j i laiev nmtiaied, and a bloody oonfliet' ' ensued, < '' j, \ The firemen at Warsajr struck fof.f.'n !increased pay and better quarters, Jf 'fires oeeur they will not allow thert to 'Jpi |be extinguished, ' . U I The Polish National party iat< . I ordered the shopkeepers to femora 1 '1 their signs in Russian in. order to gir# ' 1 the city an exclusively Polish aspect. Cavalry patrol the streets., .

The Railway Men's Union, at Sf. ' Petersburg ..wited to Warsaw lhat thp strike began early tliis porning oil all,'--railways terminating' at St Petersburg./'.: Troops strongly gaard the St. burg railway Nations. The authorities assert there are snf. if fleient militaty engine drivers available > ' to prevent a total suspension of trafflo, There are strong indications: that thd - J telegraph operator# will attain ty«>, object. ' ' :V '(L A hundred thousand of Lett rerolo.. tionaries, the majority being well armed, are in possession of the Sohores ioU'M tresses. A.., \ .'JR

BETWEEN TWO FIRES. I 'V THEY SEEK MILITARY < JROTECTION. A MISTAKEN FOR REBELS. Jj A TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER, . ■ ;■ . „ ' ' -.v Received 22, 0.50 a.m. '| St. Pbtkbsbceo, December SI. t After the Tukkum scone oa cabled, the .rebels began ptanderidg* | and massacring. ' ■ ■■■■.isS Meanwhile, military reinforcement* ! J bombarded the town. The poacofol M inhabitants, who were between two fires, fled in ' the darkness to see&ij military protection', but were mistaken '"I for rebels. Six hundred were alanghtj i ered, including women and ohHdfeflf/J and eight hundred wounded. -,'£ l

RAILWAY STRIKE. St, Pitbiisburs, December Stf. In consequence of the defrost of t&d President of the WaMaw" Railway *; Union, a. strike cornmotieea on FridAy j all the Vistula r»ihr&ya£ ' I Forty of. the richest landed in tie Crimea hare bftrtl devastated. <!| The authorities.are striving to igola&|| the firo centres of the port office strife^S