RUSSIAN INTERNAL AFFAIRS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8933, 27 June 1905, Page 2

RUSSIAN INTERNAL AFFAIRS.

POLISH INSURRECTION 'SPREADING.

RIOTS AT WARSAW AND LODZ.

Ipress association.! (Received June 26, 9.21 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, June 26. Th& military at Warsaw, sent reinforce; uwnts to Lodz.

The Social Democrats at Warsaw have issued the r ollo'ving"proclania>tion :n: n -jrJer to 6how the solidarity of the brothers at Lod/i.* "We protest against the new and incessant crimes of the- Czar's Government in Warsaw. Wo must 6top work ; not a single factory will open on^Monday ; till offices, bnnks shops, and restaurants must close, and ail traffic must cease. The red Hag will float in the streets." Some rioting and encounters have already begun between tho authorities and Warsaw workmen. The cornfields in the Czestoctiowa district are afire. " -* Eight- companies of infantry and a squadron of dragoons were sent from Warsaw and tho soldiers without wailing for onU civs fired volleys, killing 18 and wounding 42.

Tho insurrection in Poland is rapidly spreading. =

CRIMINAL COSSACKS TO BE PUNISHED.

TROUBLE WITH THE JEWS,

(Received Juno 26,-9.50 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Juno 26,

General Sluustoff, commanding the military at Lodz, promised to punish Coseacks guilty of murder. - ~~ Cossacks yesterday shot. five. Jews who we.?© in a «ib on the- w.-iy to tho station. Twelve thousand inhabitants fled the city by train yesterday. ' - Thirty-fiw Government alcohol stores were burnt.

A STRIKING DEMONSTRATION

ST. PETERSBURG, Juno 26.

In Ihe presence of 2000 people priests preyed for victory in tho Grand Square at the Kremlin. There was an imposing display <>f ikons and relics. The~crowd mocked, shouting, "Wo want no victories. Give 11s reforms." Martial law has been proclaimed in Lodz.