Russia’s Revolution.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 11, 28 January 1905, Page 1

Russia’s Revolution.

■ Paris, January 25. “ Petit Journal’s St. Petersburg correspondent advices that armed workmen worsted the soldiery at Kolpino more than once during the massacre, which lasted from . - morning till night. The correspondent adds—“ It is . officially estimated that 108 were killed, and 688 wounded. The whole village was a scene of horrible deeds.” Other French advices state that the Czar has practically sequestrated, The persistent silence imposed on him by dangerous advisers causes uneasiness, lest the people are driven to desperation. Hitherto they had been accustomed to look upon the Ozar as their sole spiritual and temporal head. Hispresent attitude suggests a position of tutelage.

Despite the obviously clumsily Censored news there are unmistakeable signs that the attitude of the Russian crowds in the large centres is sullen, from pent up rage, and that the storm is ready to burst St. Petersburg, Jan. 25. When the news of tbe St. Petersburg massacre reached Radom, tbe workers paraded, shouting—“ Down with the Czar. Down with the murderers of little children.” The reservists broke out and joined in the fighting against the troopti. Three officers and many soldiers, and 100 workmen were killed. Several buildings were dynamited. I’lie upheaval is spreading through iout Russian Poland.

The police at Koono were powerless to prevent an overwhelming demonstration in denunciation ot the St. Petersburg slaughter. The public buildings were damaged. The officers had systematically defrauded the sailors of Sevastopol sf their pay and victualling them with foul and tainted food. Eight thousand attacked the officers’ quarters ; one officer had his skull broken, other officers had broken limbs. Their residences were fired. The rioters threatened to invade the Admiral’s quarters. The troops were then summoned. The sailors fired the whole of the factories and workshops, and the damage is incalculable.

Father Gapon is at Moscow where twenty factories including, four of the largest have struct

All the factories and railway workshops at Koono have stopped. The Boyebaya, or fighting organisation of the terrorist party,, has decreed the Czar’s death. January 26. The ukase vesting General Tregoff with the most absolute power*.

declares that the events of the last few days have shown the necessity of extraordinary measures being taken for the preservation of civil order and public security. The Czir thanked General Trepoff for bis distinguished and zealous services at Moscow. A notice, which has been issued, allows the St. Petersburg strikers 24 hours in which to resume work; those refusing will be deported to villages. By General Trepoff’s orders the victims were buried at 5 o’clock in the morning, their relatives, in most cases, not being permitted to see the bodies. The latter were identified by their clothing. Thousands of workmen at Helsingfors rioted, and fifty arrests were made. The London “ Daily Telegraph ” says that Father Gapon’s revolutionary manifesto to the soldiers, and his letters to the workers, were so violent that they were burned when they were read at the secret meetings. He' denounces the “ miscreant Ozar, accursed by the people." By the Ozat’s orders M. Kokookeff, Secretary of Empire, has issued a proclamation warning the workers against disturbers whose agitation is alien to the workers’ interests. The workers are invited to co-oper-ate with the Government in paofying labour and are reminded of the Cza’rs reforms decree. The Government are ready to listen to the workers’ just desires, and to satisfy them whenever possible. Paul Cernikofi, a nihilist leader in London for whom £50,000 is offered for capture, dead or alive, says that he is returning to his ' motherland carrying his life in his hands to help in the hour of distness. The Hon. H. White, formerly American Ambassador in St. • Petersburg, says that the Czar is * hopelessly unfit to grapple with the crisis. Important changes are . coming. Thirty thousand persons at Mos- . cow have struck. i A delayed message declares that the Cossacks fired on 3000 demonstrators on Tuesday and that many were wounded. , The authorities have placarded i Moscow with copies of a telegram 1 purporting to have emanated at ' Paris stating that according to a London correspondent the disturb- , ances at the Admirality works at St. Petersburg, Libam, and Sevastopol, and at the colleries at West- ' phalia, were due to Anglo-Japanese , agents, in order to prevent the Baltic and Black Sea squadrons proceeding to the Far East. The telegram adds that the English have forwarded enormous sums to Russia to organise workmen’s revolt. The Czar is at Karkoe. Desperate fighting has taken place between the revolutionaries and police at Lodz. Many deaths are reported. Bombs killed several of the police. The prison and other buildings were wrecked. London, January 25. The “ Daily Express’’ states that after the reservists had joined the crowd at Radom, several companies of infantry aided the gendarmes and police to restore order. The workman violently resisted them. Their leader fired his revolver and killed the commander of the first company. The seaond commander fell to another workman’s revolver. The gendarmes wore then ordered to shoot the ringleader, and the latter was badly wounded. The soldiors advanced to despatch him, and then there was a desperate struggle to protect him. The mob were bayoneted back, and the gendarmes hacked the prostrate leader dead with their swords. The infuriated mob rushed wildly upon the soldiers, and a hand to hand fight followed. Fifty soldiers and 100 workmen and reservists were killed. Later the military fired bullets among the assemblages, and many victims fell. The Daily Telegraph’s St. Petersburg correspondent says that M. De Witte and Prince Mirsky deplore the latest relentless measures, blunders and crimes. Mr Arnold Forster, speaking at Croydon, said the great people of Russia, ninety millions of whom were peasants, were well deserving of Britain’s sympathy. Britons desired that they should enter the heritage of freedom that Britons enjoyed through their forefathers’ sacrifice. The best message that Britons could send was one of sympathy and hope that their aspirations would bring the same happiness and liberty that Britons enjoyed. Military reports state that a mob numbering twenty-five thousand at Kolpino, carrying a petition, met a regiment of infantry and half a field battery from Tsarkoe. The soldiers fired, and the fight was continued until the workers retreated, the soldiers pursuing them. Order was restored during the afternoon. The “ Daily Mail” states that the , massacre of the unarmed Kolpino f petitioners was preceded by a * battle, in which the workmen were armed. An officer who was an eye witness described the battle and > terrible repression as a bath of blood. The inhabitants of St. Petersburg are incensed at the installation of General Trepoff at the Winter Palace as dictator of the capital. The consensus of opinion is that General Trepoff is a tyrant, and that the reactionaries momentarily have the upper hand in the Ozar’s counsels.