Russia’s Revolution.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 12, 31 January 1905, Page 1

Russia’s Revolution.

0 I THF OZAR’S PROCLAMATION. i * St. Petersburg, January 26. The proclamation ordered by the Czar was issued by General Trepoff and M. Kokovstoff conjointly. It states that the Uzar, of his own free will, recently ordered the Government to deal with the questions of workmen’s insurance, shortening of the hours of labour, and the right of workmen to discuss and declare their need. The railway workshops’ employees at Saratoff agreed with the deputation of editors, who assured them that Prince Mirsky and the Government were mere figureheads. M. Kokovstofl has agreed that delegates representing the manufacturers and workmen will confer with the Government on Friday. January 27. The prefect of police at Odessa has issued a proclamation to the workers stating that the Japanese are their allies, and that Europe is responsible for the Russian strikes which began at the St. Petersburg i factories for supplying ammunition ito the army and fleet. The proclamation urges the men to continue work, as everybody wishes to terminate the war, but not without glory to Russia or before the lost , ground in the Far East is regained. ' The editors’ deputation handed ! to Prince Mirsky a list of 4600 ■ persons who had been killed and i wounded on Sunday. There were numerous arrests of liberals in St Petersburg yesterday. General Trepofi has promised to | protect the workers. Three hundred of the Baltic ports have resumed and others at Obukoff, but the workers generally are indifferent to the Imperial proclamation. The mounted police knouted the demonstrators at Helsingfors, and later on the police with swords attacked 5000 persons. Many demonstrators were wounded. The strike at Moscow is extending. Many barristers in Paris warmly congratulated the St. Petersburg barristers on their attitude. In an encounter between the troops and strikers at Riga thrrij of the latter were killed and wounded. January 28. The Chief of Police in Moscow, in defiance of the Government’s oraers to remove the anti-British placard, informed the Consul that it would remain on the walls of the town for two days, on his own responsibility. It is officially stated at Warsaw that in a collision between strikers and troops two were killed and seven wounded. The strike is spreading and the publication of newspapers is stopped. The Liberal “ Ruskia Viedo- | mosti,” of Moscow, has been suspended for three months. The confectioners demand a ten hours day. The printers’ demand.-. have been conceded. Work is rapidly being resumed in St. Petersburg and Moscow, owing to the privations of ilu strikers. ( January 29. The Moscow Municipal Council adopted a resolution urging that arms be not used against women, ’ children, students or workmen, provided they themselves artpeaceable ; also that workmen be 1 permitted to organise peaceful strikes and to have a right to meet 1 as trade unions. London, January 26. | Opinion in Berlin is that the revolution in St. Petersburg is i prastically suppressed. i Moscow is quiet, though thirty thousand workers have struck. The newspapers are appearing. Le Matin’s St. Petersburg corres- ( pondent asserts that artillery were used on Tuesday to stop a thousand ( strikers in the suburbs. , January 27. j >A placard issued at Moscow j alleges that London financiers raised eighteen million roubles to assist the strikers so as to force ‘ peace in Japan's interests. The Prefect of Moscow informed the British Consul that he issued the placard printed at the prefecture, charging England with financing the strikers, in order to - gain time at a moment of dangerous 1 crisis. He admitted that the [statement was untrue regaiding , England, but suspected .Japan, t He offered the Consul person 1 I satisfaction if he considered he had t been insulted. 1 Sir F. C. Hardinge protested against the calumnious placard in j Moscow, and Count Lamsdorff has , pumised an inquiry and the prevention of a repetition of such action. January 28. St. Petersburg is outwardly quiot ’ and a minority of the workers have I resumed work, from stress of cir cuinstances. The bulk, however, 1 remain out. 'l'he chemists’ assistants have oh tail ed the eight hours day. A Government proclamation that J General Trepoff’s appointment was temporary and its policy unreptes-: 'siv. , restored confidence. Tho ! ■

proclamation states that it is intended to realise reform, with the re-establishment of Order and tranquility, and t.> satisfy the just demands of the population This fact is proved hy General Trepoff’s . co-operation with Kokovteeff. The Times Berlin correspondent says that two regiments of Don . Cossacks have been summoned to St. Petersburg, on the ground that the maintenance of order was a demoralising duty for the Guards regiments. This measure is interpreted in Berlin to mean that the agitation is not quelled to the extent the authorities represent it to be. Thirty-five dynamite out ages occurred in Lodz in one week. There are 60,000 strikers in Riga. Forty-two were killed, and fifty severely wounded on Thursday. Others were drowned in ' crossing the ice. No newspapers are published. Labour leaders of Riga went to Mitau and organised strike processions. The entire Nijni-Novgorod Zemstvo has been imprisoned for pro- ' testing against the St. Petersburg massacre. Three thousand Russians in Whitechapel held an enthusiastic revolutionary meeting. A similar meeting of the Paris 1 Labour Party protested agiinst the massacres. A number of societies in Rome have been forbidden to demonstrate | against the Russian Government’s methods. January 29. General Trepoff is resolved to bridle the Liberal Press and continues his policy of merciless sup- ' pression. Official circles attribute the re- ' volt to Prince Sviatopolk-Miraki’s leniency. The Daily Express St. Petersburg correspondent says that Dake LeuchenttH.buig told the Ozar the truth about Sunday’s trouble. Ihe Czar was surprised, and ordered some of the revolutionaries to be liberated. He also instructed his Ministers to elaborate the reforms already promised. Paris, January 28. The Socialists in the Chamber of Deputes made fiery speeches >< gainst M. Rouvier and M. Delcasse for adhering to the alliance with Russia, amid shonts of ’* Down with the Czar ; ” “ Down with the assassins.” M. Delcasse rebuked the speakers and upheld the alliance. The Chamber, by 410 votes to 7, approved of the Government's general policy.

Sydney, January 27. * The Sydney Socialists passed a resolution of sympathy with the Russian workers.