PEOPLE BECOMING PANICSTRICKEN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8911, 27 October 1905, Page 5

PEOPLE BECOMING PANICSTRICKEN.

STRIKERS BEGIN PLUNDERING. MOB RULE FEARED. (Received October 27, 0.7 a.m.) LONDON, October 26. The Times' St. Petersburg correspondent states that the inhabitants are becoming panic-stricken, fearing the downfall of the Government, ajid the proclamation, of mob rule. A later message states that plundering has comm&need in St. Petersburg, and the police' are hurriedly directing houseporters to close the doors Three thousand passengers are strikebound at the Moscow terminus and the authorities are feeding and lodging them since they are unable to return to the hotels. Three uncontrolled locomotives were started at full steam along the rails, a*nd mu'h damage was done before they were wrecked. Traffic to Germany ie (stopped. The tradesmen at St. Petersburg are trying to induce the carters, porters, and butchers to attack the strikers. A mutiny was attempted aboard the battleship Kathrine, also in the fortress at Sebastopol. Five hundred arrests were made.