THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13935, 18 December 1905, Page 7

THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

THE FIGHTING AT RIGA. TROUBLE AT MERY. United Press Association—By Electric. Telegraph—Copyright. ST PETERSBURG, December 15. The Government has decided that workmen’s unions in future can only be dissolved by judicial procedure and not by executive authority. Fighting between the troops and revolutionaries is proceeding at Riga. The Government buildings have beon burned and the railways wrecked, and the only means of communication with St Petersburg is by torpedo-boats. There was a two hours’ fight at Perowo Station, on the Moscow-Kazan line. Fifty armed men, expelled the railway officials and plundered forty waggons. Martial law has beon proclaimed in the Merv district, and all communication with Merv and Aslikabad is interrupted. MUTINY ON A WARSHIP. BRITISH TROOPS INTERVENE. BOMBAY, December 15. While the Russian battleship Czarevitch was at Colombo, a hundred sailors mutinied, complaining of overwork owing to the vessel being undermanned. The Russian admiral applied to the British for assistance, and troops were sent. Fifty of the mutineers were landed and kept in the Sailors’ Home till the Czarevitch sailed.

MASSACRE OF TARTARS AT TIFLIS

PROTEST BY TEE PORTE

(Received December 17, 4.44 p.m.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, December 16. The Porto vigorously protested at St Petersburg against the renewed massacre of Moslems at Tiflis. Tire Russians distributed arms to the Armenians, encouraging attacks on Tartars’ houses. The inmates were slaughtered, including women and children. Numerous Ottoman subjects are among the victims. THE RISING AT RIGA. - PRECAUTIONS AT ST PETERSBURG. ST PETERSBURG, December 16. Tho Government at Riga telegraphed that strong reinforcements were imperative. The warships at Libau have been ordered to Riga. In anticipation of a rising on January 22, the authorities at St Petersburg are adding 1000 police, and intend arming and employing the police as troops. THE CZAR AND THE REACTIONARIES. (Received December 18, 12.37 a.m.) ST PETERSBURG, December 17. The Czar, in giving an audience to a deputation of reactionaries, said that the manifesto was a complete and deliberate expression of his 1 inflexible, unchangeable will. He urged them to cooperate in pacifying tho country and realising the reforms.