CIVIL WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8011, 23 December 1905, Page 2

CIVIL WAR.

FALL IN RUSSIAN STOCK. TROOPS SYMPATHISE WITH DEBELS. Received 22, 9.48 p.m. St. Pktebsbubg, December 22. Tho Czar decliuod an audience with Count Gouehkoff, who, as Mayor of Moscow, has been summoned to St. Petersburg to participate in the eleotoral conference. He has returned to Moscow, Fours early yesterday fell at St. Petersburg to 75. Tkore are crowds at the market! buying storos and provisions. Martial law has been proclaimed at) Moscow, where soihe of tlie troops are in sympathy with the strikers. Part of the .garrison .at XharkofE joined the rebels' procession,' and the rest refused to firo.

PEASANT RISING IN BALTIC PROVINCES. St. Petbbsbcbo, December 21. There is a wholesale peasant rising in tho Baltic provinces under Maying a wonderful orator, who is blindly obeyed, Towns, villages, and chateau* were ; seized and placed under a revolutionary executive. The rebels arrested six German nobles who were organising militia for their own protection, Cossacks fired the Tomsk barracks, burning many mutinous soldiers. They also massacred 120 mutineers at Vladi. vostock. Russia has notified Germany that she regards with displeasure the despatch of German warships to Russian waters, though there are fourteen thousand German subjects in the Riga,, district alone.

THE MASSACRES IN THE CAUCASUS. St. PETEHsnußa' December 21, ' Count dy Witto threatens to hang any revolutionary in St. Petersburg circulating an appeal to the army. Waterworks' employees and. provision dealers' servants are from the operations of the Moscow strike. Loxpon, I'eccmbor 21. The Times' .Constantinople corfc?poudent states ijicre is a, growing feeling that the. Sull-aii should send a corps to the Caucasus to stop the massacres which Russia is unable or unwilling to provent,