CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.]

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 136, 6 December 1905, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.]

CHAOS IN RUSSIA. * SITUATION EXTREMELY CRITICAL SERIOUS MILITARY OUTBREAK THREATENED. PRISONERS IN REVOLT. INTIMIDATING THE LANDLORDS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received December 6, 7.22 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, sth Dec. The Twenty-third Artillery Brigade at Kishineff is ripe for mutiny. It is reported that there are indications of a. serious military outbreak. It is reported ab Kronstadt that the presence of the German squadron in the Baltic Sea is considered to portend the flight of the Tsar. - Telegrams sent from St. Petersburg to the frontier for transmission indicate that the situation is extremely critical. Peasants' risings have occurred in all parts. Prisoners set fire to the prison of the Disciplinary Battalion near Voronezh. A row of shops was burned. The prisoners, together with mutineers belonging to the battalion, numbering altogether one thousand, vainly attempted to release the inmates of the civil prison. A sharp encounter with regulars ensued, a number of mutineers being wounded or captured, and the rest escaped. FATHER GAPON'S VIEWS. "A GRAVE TACTICAL MISTAKE." ST. PETERSBURG, sth Dec. Father Gapon declared, in the course of an interview, that the extremists were making a grave tactical mistake in expecting democratic institutions immediately. The nerves of the workers, says Father Gapon, are stretched to Ireaking point by the feverish propaganda of the extreme fanatics, and unless the revolutionists are more- cautious — unless the leaders of the workers refrain from rushing into action and then withdrawing when, tens of thousands have been cast into the streets, cold and hungry — the revolutionary spirit of the people will weaken, and the masses, losing sclf-re-specfr, will join the " black hundred " and the dregs of society. LANDLORDS INTIMIDATED. (Received December 6, 8.36 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 6th Dec. The peasants in several provinces killed all the cattlo lhoy required for food, and then slaughtered tlio rest. In order to 1 intimidate the landlords, the peasants also burnt largo stores of corn and agricultural implements. HOUSE-PORTERS ON STRIKE. RECENT MASSACRES. A COMMANDER'S BRUTALITY. ' ST. PETERSBURG, sth Dec. The house-porters afc Moscow have struck work, objecting to being considered servants of the police. Official investigation shows that massacres have occurred in a hundred! and thirty localities. The recent outbreak at Kieff was due to the brutality of the commander towards his officers and soldiers. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.* {Received December 6, 8.35 a.m.) PARIS, sth December. The Figaro's St. Petersburg correspondent states that Count Witte, tho Premier, has submitted to the Ministers a scheme for universal suffrage. ' RUSSIAN SECURITIES. (Received December 6, 7.22 (U».) LONDON, sth December. An enormous quantity of Russian securities have been thrown on the Berlin Bourse, and have caused a serious fall there ; nfeo in Paris and London. A slight recover occuned later. THE MASSAC3RE OF JEWS. DEMONSTRATION IN NEW YORK. (Received December 6, 8.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, sth December. As a demonstration of mourning for their brethren massacred in Russia, one hundred thousand Jews marched in procession, attired in crape and carrying black banners, on the east side of the ctrcets in New York. Bands played, and tho synagogue choirs played dirges. One hundred and fourteen labour, socialistic, and Russian revolutionary organisations represented the Sevastopol mutineers, who are to be tried by courtmartial. DEBATE IN THE FRENCH CHAMBER. (Received December 6, 8.35 a.m.) j PARIS, sth December. M. Rouvier, the Premier, replying to the Socialist Deputies' declaration that France was making common cause with tho Russian revolutionaries, said-, the gieat majority of the nation would repudiate such words. "The Government," he added, "intends to remain faithful to .a friendly allied, nation at all times and in all circumstances of its national life. (Cheers.) Wo are not called upon to interfere with Russia in her homo policy, and I am sure the Chamber will sanction this statement." The Chamber, by a. show of hands, thereupon resumed the debate on the Budget. TROUBLE AT KHARBIN. (Received December 6, 8.45 a.m.) SHANGHAI, sth December. Pekin reports • that the soldiers at Klnulin, in Manchuria, are forcibly seizing food. They have murdered several regimental commanders.