THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12774, 26 January 1905, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.

REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT SPREADING. DESPERATE FIGHTING IN POLAND. i THE TSAR IN HIDING. NIHILISTS DEGREE HIS DEATH. MUTINY OF SAILORS AT SEBASTOPOL

By Telegraph Pre" Association Copyright. REVOLT IN POLAND. RESERVISTS JOIN THE PEOPLE. MANY CASUALTIES ON BOTH SIDES. ... A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION. (Received January 20, 0.17 p.m.) St. Petersburg, January 25. When news of the massacres at St. Petersburg reached Radon*, in Poland, the workers paraded the streets shouting " Down with the Tsai V- " Down with the murderers of little children !" The reservists, who had been mobilised, mutinied, and joined the people when the troops were ordered to suppress the rioters. There was then heavy fighting in the streets, and three officers and many soldiers, and 100 workmen, were killed. Several of the buildings in Radom have been blown up with dynamite. The revolutionary movement is spreading throughout Russian Poland. ' FIGHT OVER A FALLEN LEADER. (Received January' 23, 9.47 p.m.) London, January 25. The Daily Express says that .after the reservists had joined the crowd at Radom, several companies of infantry and the police fired to restore order. - The workmen, however, violently resisted all attempts to disperse them. Their leader then fired a revolver and killed the * commander of the first company of infantry, and the commander of the second company fell to another workman's revolver. '■ ,'■**■; The police were then ordered to shoot the ringleader, and , : they fired and wounded him--seriously. The soldiers now advanced to despatch him, and the crowd fought desperately to keep them off. The people were forced back with the bayonet, and the gendarmes hacked the prostrate leader with their swords until "ie was dead. The infuriated mob then ' rushed wildly at the soldiers, and a fierce hand-to-hand fight' took place. Fifty soldiers and 100 workmen and reservists were killed. Later reinforcements arrived and the troops fired volleys whenever they* saw a gathering of people. In these volleys people fell. :■':'.," REGRET OF MINISTERS. BLUNDERS AND CRIMES. (Received January 25, 10,25 p.m.) London, January 25. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says that the President of the Council of Ministers, M. de Witte, and the Minister for the Interior, Prince Mirski, have stated that they deplore the relentlessness of the measures taken to suppress the strikers. They describe the acts of the military as blunders and crimes. THE TSAR'S DEATH DECREED. DECISION BY TERRORIST PARTY. (Received January 26, 12.47 a.m.) St. Petersburg, January 25. The fighting organisation of the Russian Terrorist, or Nihilist party, has decreed the death of the Tsar.

A REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE. PREPARATIONS FOR A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. London, January '24. The London Daily Telegraph says that at the instance of journalists and members of the literary class and other men of standing, a committee has been formed to create a provisional Government. Those who have taken part in this movement say they are aware that failure to set up constitutional government will result in their exile or death. PROTEST BY LAWYERS. (Received Jauuary 25, 8.47 p.m.) St. Petersburg, January 25. Resolutions have been passed at a 1 meeting of 350 barristers and solicii tors expressing their entire solidarity with the strikers and protesting against the Government's action in provoking bloodshed. ARRESTS MADE. M. Nessen, editor of the Medizinsky Journal and a well-known writer, together with others associated with the initiation of a committee to form a provisional Government, has been arrested. SUNDAY'S MASSACRES. London, January 24. It is reported that on Sunday a i party of marines refused to fire on the crowd.

COSSACKS AGAIN VIOLENT. WOUND SEVERAL OF THE PEOPLE. (Received January 25, 8.47 p.m.) St. Petersburg, January 25. When dispersing a crowd ,of workers yesterday a force of Cossacks wounded several of them with their swords. The city is in a high state of tension. The streets' bristle with bayonets and there are numerous detachments in the courtyards of public and private buildings. STORM READY TO BURST. Despite the fact that news from St. Petersburg is censored, though clumsily, there are in it unmistakable signs that the attitude of the crowds in the large centres is' that of sullenness from pent-up rage and that the storm is ready to burst. EFFECT ON THE WAR. INTERFERENCE WITH THE CAMPAIGN. (lieceired January 25, 8.47 p.m.) St. Petersburg, January 25. The forwarding of stores to General K-uropatkin's army is being seriously imperilled by the strikes, and in consequence efforts are being made to terminate them almost at any cost.

• THE- TSAR. - . TO ISSUE A MANIFESTO. London, January 24. It is stated -that the Tsar and his family are at Gatchina, a town 30 miles south-west of St. Petersburg, where there is a strongly-protected Imperial palace. The Tsar, it is understood, will issue a manifesto to-day in which he ill proclaim martial law in, St. Petersburg and. will promise to appoint a commission to investigate labour grievances. (Received January 25, 8.47 p.m.) Paris, January 25. Advices received by French newspapers say that the Tsar is practically hidden away. These advices also say that the persistent silence imposed upon him by his dangerous ' advisers causes uneasiness lest the people should be driven to desperation. Hitherto they have been accustomed to look to the Tsar as their sole spiritual and temporal head, and his present attitude suggests that he is in a position of tutelage. (Received January 25, 8.47 p.m.) London, January 25. The train service between Tsarskoye Selo and St, Petersburg is suspended. (Received January 25, 10.25 p.m.) St. Petersburg, January 25. The Tsar's whereabouts are not known. UNREST IN THE PROVINCES. OUTBREAK IN MOSCOW EXPECTED. London, January 24. Renter's Agency says the attitude of all classes in Moscow is threatening. The householders are arming themselves. There- are persistent reports of great unrest at Odessa, Kharkoff, Sebastopol and Kishineff, in Finland and in Poland. There are 10,000 men on strike in Moscow. No newspapers are being published. DEMONSTRATION AT KOVNO. (Received January 25, 10.15 p.m.) St. Petersburg, January 25. The people at Kovno have held a demonstration to protest- against the St. Petersburg massacres. There was such a large attendance that the police were powerless to prevent the gathering. The crowd damaged several of the public buildings. The men of all the factories and railway workshops at Kovno have stopped work. Kovno is a town 500 miles south-west of St. Petersburg. It has a population of 58,000. ■ ; ; -.' ■ .■; MAYOR OF MOSCOW'S REELECTION. . St. Petersburg, January 25. Prince Ealitzin, Mayor of Moscow, resigned his office recently because the ... Tsar had censured' him for having for warded the municipality's reform resolutions to St. Petersburg. ? He has now been' re-elected Mayor by 113 votes to 10. FATHER (UPON AT MOSCOW (Received January 25, 10.15 p.m.) St. Petersburg, January 25. Father Gapon is now at Moscow, where the men of 20 factories, including four of the largest, have struck.. ,'■.■•••'.', THE KOLPINO MASSACRE, MAINTAINED ALL DAY. TROOPS DEFEATED BY WORKMEN. (Received January 25, 8.47 p.m.) Paris, January 25. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Petit Journal reports that at the village of Kolpino, near St. Petersburg, the troops maintained a massacre that lasted from morning till night. The official estimate of the casualties is 108 killed and 380 wounded. While the massacre was proceeding armed workmen fought the troops repeatedly and worsted them more than once. The whole village is a scene of horrible deeds. GENERAL TREPOFF IN COMMAND. GIVEN FULL POWER. (Received January 25, 8.17 p.m.) St. Petersburg, January 25. General Trepoff, ex-chief of police of Moscow, to assassinate whom attempts were recently made, has been appointed Governor-General of St. Petersburg, with full power to act as he deems fit in the maintenance of order. The office of Prefect of St. Petersburg has been abolished. BRITISH MINISTER ON THE REVOLT. SYMPATHY WITH THE REBELS. (Received January 25, 10.25 p.m.) St. Petersburg, January 25. The Minister for War (Mr. ArnoklForster), speaking last night at Croydon, said :—" The • great people of Russia, of whom ninety millions are peasants, are well deserving of the sympathy of the British. We desire that they should enter into (.lie heritage of freedom we enjoy through the sacrifices of our forefathers. The best message we can send to them is one of sympathy and the hope that their aspirations when realised will bring the same happiness and liberty that we enjoy." , '..;■'■

MAXIME GORKY ARRESTED (EeceiTed' January 25, 10.23 p.m.) London, January 25. Maxime Gorky, the writer, lias been made a prisonerMaxime Gorky ; s the most populai of Russian writers to-day. lie lias sprung from the people, and his 'success has been meteoric. MURDER BY THE MOB. A GENERAL BEATEN TO DEATH. St. Petersburg, January 24. An aged general was killed by the mob on Sunday. As he was proceeding in a sledge towards the troops he was asked by the people, who were in a condition of rage owing to the slaughter that had taken place : " Are you going to order the troops to, fire on us'l" The general told his coachman to proceed. A well-dressed man then struck him on the head. He was thereupon dragged from the sledge and beaten and trampled to death. M. POBYEDONOSTSEFF ILL. London, January 24. j M. Pobyedonostseff, the Procurator of the Holy Synod, is seriously ill. EFFECT ON STOCKS. London, January 24. Since ths events of Sunday Prussian stocks have fallen, several points. On the Berlin Bourse the new loan is quoted at 93§. OPINION IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. FRENCH NEWSPAPERS BITTER London, January 24. The Berlin newspaper Kreuz Zeitung and other advocates of the traditional Russian, policy of repression, defend the conduct of the Grand Duke Vladimir in using the military to crush the demonstration of Sunday. The German Liberal and Radical newspapers scathingly denounce the Russian authorities for the slaughter of the people. The comments of many of the French newspapers upon Sunday's massacre are extremely bitter. They predict the downfall of the autocracy. The Russian residents in the United States are greatly excited over events at St. Petersburg, and their unions have already remitted £100,000 to the trades unions of St. Petersburg. The West Ham Trades and Labour Council has forwarded to- Mr. Balfour a resolution expressing horror at the wanton butchery of many of their comrades in St. Petersburg and urging the British Government to make a protest on then behalf. AN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION. REVOLT ALLOWED TO DEVELOP. London, January 24. An official statement regarding the events of Sunday has been published in St. Petersburg. ■ It sets forth that while the strikers were orderly their movement was not suppressed; but that the Fac-tory-workers' Association had gone beyond its intellectual and religious objects and had fallen under revolutionary influences. Father Gapon and its president had concealed from the majority of the members the real character of the "insolent political demands,'' contained in their petition to the Tsar. It had been represented that the petition merely put forward the labour grievances. The leaders of the workers also had concealed from the majority of the members of the association the real purpose of the gathering to be held in Palace Square on Sunday. , The bloody collisions that had taken place on that day were the results of the refusal of the people to obey the police regulations or of attacks on the military. The Times correspondent at Berlin says that during the past two or three days the censorship has been in abeyance, and that it is clear from the accounts telegraphed that the authorities desired the agitation to come to a head. The officials did not oppose the making of the preliminary arrangements for processions. The police were forbidden to prevent the development of a revolution, and were instructed to allow events to ripen in order to justify action by the military. A TEMPORARY LULL. St. Petersburg, January 24. An official statement has been issued to the effect that there were no collisions with the troops in St. Petersburg on Monday, and no one was either killed or wounded. There was some pillaging and. windowbreaking, but order was restored quickly. The night was quiet. There is no excitement in. St. Petersburg to-day. Thousands of people are idling in the streets and the troops do not interfere with them, except to keep the traffic clear. The temporary lull has reassured nobody. THE CITY IN DARKNESS. (Received January 2J, 10.25 p.m.) St. Petersburg, January 25. The military electricians, of St. Petersburg manned some of the electric lighting works and restored the light yesterday. Later the suspension of work at the Belgian Company's central station, which furnishes most of the city's electric light, plunged the fashionable thoroughfares into darkness.

THE SEVASTOPOL FIRE. CAUSED BY DISCONTENTED ' , \ SAILORS. "•' .i , ASSAULT THEIR OFFICERS ' AND FIRE BUILDINGS. ' MUTINOUS SOLDIERS. St. Petersburg, January 24. The great fire in the Admiralty works at Sebastopol was the work of sailors of the navy, who are infuriated owing to being badly fed and harshly treated. » Recently these men created a riot, in which they maltreated their officers and shouted, "Down with Ad-', miral Tichuchin!" " Stop the wart''' 1 " Down with absolutism!" ;.' Soldiers who were summoned to 1 suppress the disturbance were ordered to shoot the •sailors, but fired their voileys in the air. The regiment was sent to;barracks« The colonel remonstrated -with the men for having failed in their duty. Their reply was that if they , were compelled to shoot, their officers would be their targets. , : !| The fire destroyed the naval depots ! (Received January 25, 10.15 p.m.) . ;,'■ St. Petersburg, January 25.The naval officers at Sebastopol have defrauded the sailors systematically of their pay and their ray tions, and have fed them upon offal and tainted food. \ _ -\ Eight thousand of the men ap tacked the officers' quarters. Theyr! broke an officer's skull and broke thai limbs of others. They also set fire! to the residences of the officers. ' The rioters next threatened to in> vade the quarters of the admiral. and troops were summoned, but the; soldiers refused to fire. The sailors then set fire .to ■ .ttttf ' whole of the factories and workshops. The damage done is incalculable^'; NEW ZEALAND'S SYMPATHY MEETING IN WELLINGTON., . •' [BY TELEGRAM!. — CORRESPONDENT.* Wellington - , Wednesday. Local sympathisers with the Russian! workmen in their revolt met here to-night,) 1 and decided to ask the Mayor to-morrow to> call a meeting of protest against what is) ! going on in St. Petersburg. One of the' speakers related a fact not generally known, 1 that there are 150 families resident in Wellington who own Russia as their birth-place, and that the majority of these people have had actual experience of sufferings such as their fellow country men are now enduring in Russia. - ' THE DECEMBER RIOTS. . .St. i-ETERSBUBG, December 11. The expected popular demonstration, against the Government duly took place about eleven o'clock this morning, when a large number of students of the university and other educational establishments in St. Petersburg, including pupils of the Women's Medical Institute and the Girls' High .School, entered the Nevskiy Pros- . pect by way of the Catherine Canal in a body. ' ,'"..'' " '" " A great crowd speedily gathered round them, the demonstrators waving banners with emblematic devices and distributing peditious proclamations among ; the assembly. Many of the leaders 'read these documents aloud in a high voice, concluding by shouting "Down with autocracy!: Stop the war!" Policemen, mounted and on foot, and mounted gendarmes to the number of several hundreds, suddenly charged the crowd at full gallop, and 'the whole assemblage was driven out of the roadway and on to the pavement amid headlong l confusion -and screams of terror. __, • The mounted men continued tie pursuifi on the pavement, and a sharp encounters took place between the police and gen-* darmes on one side, and the demonstrators and the mob on the other, which was sup-* plemented by a conflict between ihe sup* powers of the demonstration .among"thai crowd and a section which opposed it. The pavements on both fides of the/ spacious Nevskiy Prospect and Greati Moscow-street were thronged with strugH--gling masses of people from end to end.j while tramway and sleigh traffic was every-! where at, a standstill, thus allowing the 1 ) mounted men a clear field over the snowcovered roads. The windows overlooking the scone of ths riot were filled with eager?spectators. , , . --*- A great number of arrests were zuade 4 and it is said that some 50 persons sustained wounds and' "bruises, more or lesw serious. _.-<.., '"** '-. '< -'.