PILLAGE AND STREET FIGHTING.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12639, 28 October 1905, Page 5

PILLAGE AND STREET FIGHTING.

PARALYSIS OF TRADE

Received October 27, 8.25 a.m

ST. PETERSBURG, October 27.. Fifteen were killed and 26 injured in a conflict witlh the troops during a demonstration at Ekaterinoslav.

Strikers seized a train running in the direction of Syzran and travelled from station to station, plundering and destroying buildings.

During a strikers' affray at JJfikolai Station with the eingine drivers wishing to resume work, several were killed and wounded.

Warsaw is isolated, and a-" meat and coal famine is threatened.,

Trade at th© seaports ds gradually becoming paralysed. '

At Odessa all trains have stopped running except to Kieff.

Immense meetings of students and workmen are being held at St. Petersburg. Many revolutionary speeches hare been made, urging an armed rising-

The editors of the newspapers published in St. Petersburg; are discussing the advisability of publishing all mews, and entirely ignoring and defying' the censor.

M. Witte, in receiving a deputation from the Working Men's Congress, stipulated that he did so unofficially, as he was not empowered to accept addresses. He went on to say that some of their demands were v in any country, and a constituent assembly was at present quite impossible. In the present condition of Russia • Universal suffrage gave prercminence to the wealthly classes, eaiablinp, them to influence votes. There Was-not a cultivated man in the whole world in favour of universal suffrage He added that freedom of the press and meetings would shortly be granted, martial law on railways abolished. He advised .the cessation of the strike and the elaboration of pacific conditions. .