THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13936, 19 December 1905, Page 9

THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

MUTINY AT MOSCOW.

THE RISING AT RIGA.

THE WORKERS’ MANIFESTO.

' VIOLENT INDICTMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT. 5? STREET FIGHTING IN BATOUM United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ST PETERSBURG, December 17. The Rostoff Grenadier Regiment at Moscow mutinied, and freed the prison- . ©rs. The mutineers seized the arsenal, armsi and ammunition, and drew a machine gun in front of the barracks. The , colonel of the .regiment has resigned, and a committee of twenty is how commanding it. • The .Cossacks and police at Moscow repelled the railwaymen’s attack upon the domiciles of members of the u Black Hundred.’* STREET FIGHTING AT BATOUM. TURRET REMOVING OTTOMAN REFUGEES. ' (Received December 18, 10.1 p.m. ST PETERSBURG, December 18. The streets of Batoum are ’ barricad-ed,-and there is fierce fighting between the troops and the revolutionaries. The military are employing artillery. Many persons have been killed, including Ottoman subjects. The Port© is sending vessels to remove refugees. There is a similar situation at Poti and Kutais. AN INDICTMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT. MANIFESTO OF THE WORKMEN AND PEASANTS. WHOLESALE ARRESTS. ; \ / NEWSPAPERS SUSPENDED. LONDON, December 18. - - The' council of the workmen’s delegates .and the committees of the Peasants’ Congress, Democratic Workmen’s Party-and social revolutionaries at St - Petersburg have issued a violent indictment of the autocracy and chaotic and dishonest finance. Russia,, they say, is on the verge of ' bankrutoy. The troops are hungry and revolting. The Government must be overthrown and deprived of taxes, and a constituent as- . sembly summoned. The declaration addsjthat the workers have decided not to allow payment of debts contracted ■ by the Government since the date of its openly waging war against the whole-nation. The chief newspapers, excepting the “Novo© Vremya,” published the indiefmont. All were confiscated and publication .temporarily suspended. Meanwhile copies were sold at a shilling under the ©yes of the police. The editors were arrested, also the whole of the 250 members of the council of Workmen’s delegates. v IMPENDING STRIKES. END OF THE MOSCOW MUTINY. • LONDON, December 18. The Telegraph’s ” St Petersburg correspondent says That a postal and railway strike will be proclaimed today. i.

The Grenadiers Moscow have submitted. Ten, including the leader, Schabareff, have been arrested. Minor demands, 'including privacy of letters, increase of rations and regular payment have been granted. The telegraph officers, and most of the post offices at. Moscow are open, some telegraphists replacing sorters and jwstmen. THE WORKERS’ INDICTMENT. THE GOVERNMENT’S REPLY. FURTHER RISINGS. LONDON, December 18. Another communique, due to the indictment, has been made, in which the Government' says that it considers it to be its duty to execute reforms on the basis of the Czar’s ‘manifesto. It believes the best method of fighting the revolutionaries is to rely on laws, regulations and ordinances. Should these fail the necessity for altogether exceptional measures will become evident. The “ Times” says that the whole of Livonia and Kovno are under arms. The Letts routed regiments of Dragoons and .infantry, and wrecked a military train. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE WORKERS. PROMISED CONCESSIONS. ST PETERSBURG, December 18. In its communique the Government considers that the railway men’s complaints and demands are largely justified. The Council of State includes sixteen million roubles in the Estimates for 1906 for the improvement of the conditions of the service. It is also announced that the minimum salary of post or telegraph officials has been fixed at 468 instead of 300 roubles. A quinquennial rise of salary is being arranged in the case of officials whose conduct, is good. Half a million roubles will be distributed among the post and tele-, graph officials who worked overtime during the railway strike. ,

The Czar has sanctioned a law imposing imprisonment on persons inciting or beginning or participating in a strike in railway and telegraph stations. Membership of associations whose aim is the production of strikes entails fortress imprisonment from sixteen to forty-oiglit months. Employees injured in health or incapaciated by strikers’ acts will receive compensation'or pension, and if killed their families will be provided for.

THE RIGA RISING.

RECOGNITION OF A REPUBLIC DEMANDED.

SERIOUS FIGHTING AND INCENDIARISM.

(Received December 19, -1.2 a.m.) ST PETERSBURG, December 18.

The municipality of Riga, after notifying the Nobles, entered into negotiations with the rebels. The latter demand in return for the surrender of seventeen host ages the recognition of the Lithuanian Republic by the Nobles, and the abolition of martial law.

There was serious fighting and incendiarism at Mitan. The castle of Lemberg was saturated with petroleum and set on fire. Out of 120 Dragoons in the Mitau district, 34 are missing.

The troops and people in the Suwalki district have revolted. The inhabitants refused to pay taxes and burnt the Government offices. .