CIVIL WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8026, 12 January 1906, Page 2

CIVIL WAR.

GOVERNMENT AND LABOR CHIEFS. BEPREBSIVE MEASURES. ■; CONSTITUTION OP THE COUNCIL OP THE EMPIRE. THE DOUMA TO ASSEMBLE SOON. Received 11, 11.11 ~.m > London, January 11. " Times' " St. Petersburg correspon. dent reports that the Government privately informed the labor chiefs that if the 22nd inst. passed quietly, the repressive measures would be ins. pended the following day. Count de Witte informed a depute tion that the Douma would probably assemble on April 24th. Ho stated that the Council of the Empire would be composed of 176 members. Half would bo elective; 34 would bo elected by the Zemstvos; 18 appointed by nobles ; 12 each by the manufao. turers and merchants; sir each by Caucasus and Poland. He was personally opposed to re* prossion, but was compollcd to reso't thereto as a result of trusting Us countrymen. revolutionaries executed. PEOPLE PLY TO MO KG Oil A. CREW OP A BATTLESHIP MUTINY. St. Pmbhsburo, Jan. 10. Eighteen revolutionaries were executed at Moscow, including Schmidt, s German, and owner of a large furniture ' factory, A conflict between Cossacks and ' soldiers occurred at Irkutsk. Hun. 1 dreds were killed and thrown into • lake. Stores at Tsitsihar were looted, and 1 people fled to Mongolia. ' Troops besieged, the Ostroivice iron- ' worl « Rudom and killed and , wounded many revolutionaries. The . rest fled. The crew of the battleship TTni.« Gort'liakoG, undergoing repairs at Elsinore, mutinied. TARTARS ON THE WARPATH St. Petkhhbi'bg, Jan. 10, Tartars burnt half Elizabetpol. Teu thousand Tartars, bent on massacre and pillage, attacked Tiflig. Tho defenders Armenians, assisted, by Georgians and Russians, all welt ! armed—fought vigorously, by meang of barricades and bombs, repelling the I assailants.