Riots and Murders Continue.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 114, 9 December 1905, Page 3

Riots and Murders Continue.

Sakharofrs Harder. Wholesale Massacres of Jews. Banks Threaten to Close. Telegraph Press Association Copyright St. Petersburg, Dec 8. Owing to peasant terrorism at Livonia, many have fled, abandoning their homes and property. Peasants at Astrakhan have decided to subdivide the land, each taking four acres. They have also endeavored to seize the State forests. Troops have been sent to Astrakhan., Similar newß is to hand from Kazan,Loyal troops are in possession of the central and commercial quarter of Kieff. Insurgents are in possession 6f the Pechersky quarter and fortress. A thousand sappers and others have joined the strikers. Barricades are erected in the streets. Insurrectionary troops are masters of Novorossysk, which has been subdivided into a military distnot, and perfect order is maintained. The mutineers seized Ekaterinoda's arsenal and 18,000 rifles. A portion were distributed locally and the remainder were sent to arm the proletariats at Novorossiyk. Father Gapon has fled to Paris. A revolt has occurred at Elizabethol. . u There was a great slump in the Bourse on Wednesday. Four per cents were at 74. Many banks were in the most precarious condition, 600,000 roubles daily being withdrawn. Count Witte's lack of inventive resource, and failure to devise the heroic measures demanded on all sides, produced despair among the staunohest supporters and resentment among other?. There is a growing fear that the troops in Moscow will rise. Bussian opinion tacitly approves of General Sakharoffs murder owing to the wholesale knoutings of villagers and the nameless outrages perpetrated by drunken Cossacks upon women under the eyes of the Czar's pacific peasants. The Bielostok, Kieff and Kharkoff• Eketarionoslav railway men have struck in sympathy with the telegraphists. Hooligans at Kieff, maddened with vodka, massacred 1500 Jews, students and reformers on Monday and Tuesday nights. The bankers at Warsaw warn Count Witte that unless the telegraphists' strike is soon ended they intend dosing. The Government loss by the railway stnke totalled four million! sterling in the passenger traffic The Government loss from the telegraph and postal strike was £40,000 daily.