INTERNAL RUSSIA.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 17, 20 January 1905, Page 5

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

STRIKES AND REBELLION.

POWTJtCAL DEMANDS MADE.

A THREATENING SITUATION.

(By Cable. —Press Association. — CopyrlgUt.)

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan, 19.

The strikers in St. Petersburg now number sixty thousand. They are under the leadership of a priest named Garpon-

They claim an eight hoars' day, and also demand political reforms iv α-lvance even of those asked for by the Zsnistvoa.

In view of the threatening ont* look troops are being concentrated in the city.

THE MOVEMENT GROWING

(Received 8.42 a.m.;

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 19. Ten thousand additional workers have joined the striker* at St. Petersburg, including seven thousand men employed as ropemakere. Special precautions are being taken aronnd the palaces. The Fntiloff works, where many men ere on strike, is chiefs Iγ im the manufacture of gnn* And railway carriages. A strike has also occurred in the Obrikhoff metal works, which, be. ing Government property, is im> other example of the determination of the strikers. The movement is gaining ground in Poland, and at Warsaw, the capital, the railway employees are joining in the strike of the steelworkers. TBEPOFF IV ST. PETERSBURG. (Received 8.28 a.m.) LONDON, January 19. M. Trepoff, ex-Commissioner of Police of Moscow, upon whose life three attempts were made, has now arrived ijj St. Petersburg.