THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.
INDUSTRY PARALYZED, FIVE RAILWAYS INACTIVE. J RESIGNATION OF PHDTCE XiOUXS. I (By Cable.—Pres» Association.—Copyright.) (Received 3.48 a.m.) I ST. PETERSBURG, October~227~ I The Moscow strike is of a most forI nudable description. Industry fs practi--1 eally at a standstill, and traffic has been I suspended on no less than five railways, i converging on the city. I Prince Louis Napoleon, the Governor jof the Caucasus, who gave orders to the j Russian troops to "shoot to kill," and an- ■ nounced that he "must teach these wild I beasts that they must live like human I beings," has resigned his office, owing to | his disapproval of the new National Dumas. GREAT STRIKE IK MOSCOW. A BRUTAL POLICE ORDER. ST. PETERSBURG, October 21. A general strike has begun at Moscow. Cossacks dispersed a meeting of the j revolutionary party, who were discussing the Duma elections in Minsk; 120 ' were injured. In view of threatened demonstrations at Odessa the police have been ordered to shoot the crowd at the first command without firing a volley in the air, as a warning.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 253, 23 October 1905, Page 5
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