TURMOIL IN RUSSIA.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 15, 18 July 1905, Page 5

TURMOIL IN RUSSIA.

t INFLAMMATORY PROCLAMATIONS ISSUED. A TOWN SEIZED BY RIOTEES. DISTURBANCES AT LODZ. - [PBESS ASSOCIATION.') (Received July 18, 8.47 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 17th July. Forty thousand cartridges and two tons of gunpowder for tixe revolutionary party in the Caucasus have been discovered 1 at Erivan. "Twenty loaded bombs were also discovered in the centre of St. Petersburg. A thousand proclamations have been circulated summoning workers to meet on the 22nd mst. (next Saturday) to commemorate Vladimir Day by casting bombs beneath the soldiers' feet. - After a- five weeks' strike at JvanoyoVozne&ensk (86 miles by rail norf;h of Vladimir, and one of the chief centres of the Russian cotton industry), the workmen have commenced to pillage the shops. The whole town is in the rioters' hands. Fresh demonstrations occurred at Lodz on Saturday. The Cossacks fired a volley, killing three and wounding sis people. A portion of the Ekaterinburg regiment mutinied, and killed one of the officers. AGRARIAN TROUBLES. SEVERE REPRESSIVE MEASURES. ST. PETERSBURG, 17th July. Extensive agrarian disorders are anticipated in Southern Russia and the Baltic provinces v after harvesting. Landowners are demanding protection. The Government has adopted measures of such terrible severity that the peasants are momentarily repressed. Owing to an outbreak at Kherson eleven hundred persons were arrested. THE NEW CONSTITUTION. ST. PETERSBURG, 17th July. Owing to the assassination of Count Schouvaloff, Prefect of Moscow, the Tsar is not likely to proclaim the new constitution at the Kremlin, but will probably promulgate it through the Council of the Empire ov the Ruling Senate. THE OUTBREAK IN RUSSIAN ' POLAND. NEWS BY MAIL. A WEEK'S CASUALTY LIST. (Per s.». Ventura at Auckland.) ST. PETERSBURG, 26th June. The three big Socialistic parties in Russian Poland dre well organised. They , hnve some arms, but the authorities claim that they have no chance of tuccess sing.e-handed. Neither the Jewish Socialists called the Bund nor the Social Domocrats are Separatists, but they are all bitterly opposed to the existing Government. The affair at Lodz seemingly has accirentally precipitated a crisis, but the authorities dec.are there is no machinery for a general insurrection behind it. The main danger lies in its spread to the socialistic organisations in other parts of Russia, with which those in Russian Poland are closely allied. In the meantime the Caucasus is aflame with an insurrection on a big scale. The Mussulmans are actually besieging the Armenians in some of the towns. Peasant uprisings have aho recurred in several provinces, notably at Kharkog, where ' the estates of half a dozen nobles havo been burned. • Warsaw has the appearance of a military encampment. The infantry and Cossacks are bivouacked iri the streets, and patrols are circulating everywhere. Most of the shops are closed, but the cabs and street cars are still running. Barricades have been erected at the corners, and occasionally the crack of a rifle is heard aa the strikers shoot at men going to work. Tho Jewish districts are no-w in full revolt. The shops and stores are closed, aJid traffic has ceased. The street cars have been overturned to form the nucleus of barricades. Great crowds are assembling in the streets. The ugly temper of both the populace and the troops threatens to break out in bloodshed at ' any moment. Thirty -four battalions of infantry arc stationed in the town. The j Governor-General has proclaimed a state of siege at Lodz. i It is said that the number of victims ' of last week's ' outbreak total over 1200. Thus far the bodies of 343 Jews and 218 Christians have been buried. The wounded number over 700.