THE UNREST IN RUSSIA

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13889, 25 October 1905, Page 7

THE UNREST IN RUSSIA

r ._ . THE RAILWAY STRIKE. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ST PETERSBURG, October 23. It is believed that the railway strike is a prelude to a general strike at the end of the year, intended to cause a lack of food in Moscow and St Petersburg. THE STRIKES SPREADING. RAILWAY COMMUNICATION S STOPPED. (Received October 25, 12.2 a.in.) , ST PETERSBURG, October 24. Work at Saratoff and Ekaterinoslav has stopped. Three thousand railway men at Saratoff demanded a representative assembly, the suffrage and the points mentioned in Count do Witte’s speech. Railway communication between St Petersburg and Moscow lias ' stopped. The railway strike is spreading in many directions. Nearly all the mills and factories at Kharkoff and Balashoff have struck.