STRIKERS TO BRING BACK MANCHURIAN ARMY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 300, 16 December 1905, Page 5

STRIKERS TO BRING BACK MANCHURIAN ARMY.

LDO-VTICH ADMITS THAT HE IS POWERLESS.

RIGA IN THE HANDS OF THE REVOLUTIONISTS.

, ■ ST. PETERSBURG, December 15. The Railway Workers' Union has telegraphed to the Mkhchurian army, back to liberation! even if we have.to declare a general strike," The'army sent an enthusiastic reply.

General Lineviteb.'s Last telegram was marked "urgent," and stated that he was unable to combat the spread of revolutionary propaganda. Already half the army was mutinous, and the reservists were demanding immediate repatria. tion, and were rejecting paper money. The united peasants and the workers have sworn to boycott every Government revenue-bearing undertaking.

The Czar has ordered the officials at Vilna to send immediately to the Baltic provinces every available soldier to crush the Republican movement there

It was reported on the St. Petersburg Bourse yesterday that the red, flag was flying from the Government buildings at Riga. The Government are sending reinforcements. -. , • .

Refng-es landwards, arriving from Riga, report that the whole of the peasants have risen, and are murdering many landowners: The peasants have declared that until the National Duma makes laws they will do as they like, Cossacks have been urgently summoned" from Manchuria to suppress "the agrarian disorders.