OMINOUS SIGNS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12640, 30 October 1905, Page 5

OMINOUS SIGNS.

OFFICERS ORDERED TO ACT WITH-

WITHOUT MERCY

MOSCOW AND ST. PETERSBURG

WITHOUT GAS

RESTRICTING THE RIGHT OF

SPEECH

THE CENTRAL ASIAN RAILWAYS

THE EMPLOYEES STRIKE

United Press Association —Copyright Received October 29, 4.29 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, October 28. The Governor of Lodz has ordered all officers, in tho event of disturbances, to act without meaxiy.

The Governor of Moscow's proclamation announces that troops have been posted in all parts of the city for the protection of peaceable people. They will fire ball cartridge in the.event of the smallest gathering or the slightest sign of criminal intent.

Many were woiinded at the dispersal of a meeting feeing held at Poltava.

At Odessa, where export trade has been stopped, twelve British steamers were waiting loading. They left port

empty

Traffic on the Russian section of the Finnish Railway has been suspended.

Received October 29, 4.40 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, October 28

Tho tramway services between St Petersburg and Moscow have stopped

Moscow and parts of St. Petersburg are without gas and electricity.

No newspapers are being published in St. Petersburg.

Earnestness and orderliness characterised the public meetings held at the Universities.

General Trepoff prohibits meetings in St. Petersburg except in a few appointed places and then under strict Government supervision. Any infringement of the rule renders the president of tihe meeting liable, to heavy penalties and those attending liable to a month's imprisonment or a iheavy. fine. St. Petersburg openly derides Trel>off's ball cartridge injunction.

Twenty (representatives of the revolutionary committee have been arrested for summoning tihe. St. Petersburg banks

to close,

The employes of the Central Asian Railway have struck.