RUSSIA'S UNREST

Evening Star, Issue 12396, 9 January 1905, Page 6

RUSSIA'S UNREST

Press* Association—£y Telegraph—Copyright. A SHAMEFUL* OUTRAGE. YOUNG WOMEN CRUELLY BEATEN. LONDON, January 8. (Received January 9, at 8.49 a.m.) A manifesto signed by 117 literary,' political, and scientific Russians, published in Stuttgart and Zurich, narrates the cruel knouting of female students and other giria not connected with the demonstration oa the 7th. - , MOSCOW'S PROTEST AGAINST MILITARY EXCESSES. THE HOLY SYNOD'S PRONOUNCEMENT. ST, PETERSBURG, January 7. Owing to tiie brutal- violence in quelling a studente' demonstration, the Moscow municipality ha* suppressed the vote for the maintenance of the gendarmerie until the perpetrators are suitably punished. , The Holy Synod has addressed to the Czar a protest against the insensate machinations of certain.nobles in attempting to induce the Czar to abrogate some of bis power. The Procureur recognised that the Czar possesses all rights save the violation of his oath to preserve autocracy and orthodoxy.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

THE COMING REVOLUTION.

LONDON, January 8. (Received January 9, at 8.49 a.m.)

The Nihilists in Switzerland are preparing, one million copies of pamphlets advising the Russians not to proceed to the Ear East.

Nine prominent leaders declare that a general revolt will begin in'a few ■weeks' time in Moscow, then in- Warsaw, Keiff, and St. Petersburg.