RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7930, 2 January 1906, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

A NEW REPUBLIC. THE RED FLAG AT ZLATONST. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 30 The revolutionaries at Zlatoust ■hate declared a republic. The red flag is flying on the Government •arms factory. The authorities in a neighbouring village threatened to send Cossacks, but were prevented by the threat of the revolutionaries to kill all the officials at the factory. The latter and the *ohief factory inspector for the distriot have been arrested as hostages. A SINGER'S CASTLE BURNED. ST. PETERSBURG, Deo. 30. Insurgents at Livonia burned the 'Oastle belonging to a well-known singer named Alice Barbi, otherwise Baroness Woffstmersee, who escaped. AFFAIRS AT WARSAW. ST. PETERSBURG, Deo. 30. Strikers at Warsaw, by nampering methods, have caused the abandonment of traffic on the Vienna rail- j way. Sappers maintain traffio on the Vistula railway. Infantry destroyed barricades -created iu three streets at Warsaw. A BIG HAUL. ST PETERSBURG, Dec. 30. Rebels raided the Treasury in Wysokil Mayowie?ke, in the government of Lomza (Russian Poland), -dynamited a safe, capturing three hundred thousand paper roubles, twenty thousand roubles in gold, and ' one hundred and sixty thousand in silver. The raiders escaped with their booty. IN THE BALTIC PROVINCES. ST. PETERSBURG, Deo. 29. The crisis in the Baltic provinces led to a sharp exchange of notes between Germany and Russia. ' Severe fighting is prooeediag at Rostoff and Vilna. A fourth of the insurgents at Seval have been captured. General Stackelberg has been sent •to operate against them. -DESTITUTE REFUGEES. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 29. There are two hundred thousand 'Russian refugees, many of whom are destitute, iu Germany, and sixty thousand Russian Jews, including thousand children, iu Austria. THE MOSCOW RISING. PRAOTICALLF STAMPED OUT. AN ARMISTICE ANNOUNCED. ST. PETERSBURG, Deo. 29. Better reports have been received ■from Moscow regarding the position 'of affairs in that city. Owiag largely to the camber of 'arrests' and fatalities amongst the 'revolutionary leaders the revolutionists an lounce a day's armistice. A thousand corpses which cannot be identiHed have been collected in ■the Lutohkoff quarter of the city. The insurgents in the Fryesoa 'quarter offer to surrender if they are not punished. The troops have received an unstinted supply of vodka. The Governor has ordered them to fire on ail knots of pedestrians, volunteers ■and Red Cross detachments. A number of sappers helped the insurgents in building barricades. The blowing up of a bridge and other damage stopped reinforcements from St. Petesburg reaching Moscow. Received December 31, 4.45 p.m. A fierce cannonade preceded the armistice at Moscow. The resistance of the rebels was equally vigorous. The revolution is now ended owing to deficiency of arms. Two hundred housee are badly damaged. The public were forbidden on Thursday to assist wounded insurgents. The Governor warned a landlord who wished to transform his hotel into a hospital that the hotel would be bombarded if he persisted. The Semeaoffsky Regiment and a brigade of artillery arrived at Moscow before the railway was damaged. THE LAST STAND. ARMED RISING IN THE CAPITAL PROJECTED. Received January 1, 9.35 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 31. Ten thousand rebels made their last stand in the Pryesna quarter, where they barricaded the streets, finally taking refuge in theProkoaoff factory, which!'the infantry and cavalry surrounded and bombarded. Two hundred rebels and seven soldiers were killed. The Couuoil of Workmen at St. Petersburg have decided to close the striKe on Monday and organise an , armed insurrection. THE CZAR. Receiived January 1, 1.59 p.m. LONDON, January 1. The Times* St. Petersburg correspondent says that it is rumoured that the Czar has a reourrenoe of epileptic strokes.

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