RUSSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13032, 24 November 1905, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE AGRARIAN OUTBREAK. DESTRUCTION IN THE VOLGA' DISTRICTS. "BY ORDER OF THE TSAR." By Telegraph.—Press Association Copyright. , (Received November 24, 12.40 a.m.) St. Petersburg, November 23. Advices, received show that the "Volga districts present terrible • pictures of agrarian disorder. Many properties of landowners have been pillaged and then destroyed by fire. Agitators in the disguise of officials . proclaimed throughout the districts that the {Tsar had ordered the peasants to seize the land. St. Petersburg, November 22. The chairman of the Peasants' Congress now meeting at Moscow*, said yesterday that the peasants now recognise that they, possess irresistible strength, and are organising for victory. Nothing, he added, would be able to prevent them getting both land and power into their hands. POST AND TELEGRAPH EMPLOYEES. A THREATENED STRIKE. (Received November 24, 12.40 a.m.) St. Petersburg, November 23. • Despite the Government's prohibition, the post and telegraph employees «meet in Moscow on the 28th inst. to demand a genuine Constitution. If this be not granted, they will strike throughout Russia. THE VLADIVOSTOK MUTINY, . 1600 LIVES LOST. =: THE ■ JAPANESE RESPECTED. London, November 22. A German student who was in Vladivostok during the recent mutiny, and who has escaped, says that 50,000 soldiers took part in the outbreak and murdered 1600 people. No Japanese, he says, -were molested.. EIGHT HOURS' DAY. THE WORKERS TAKING IT. CLOSING OF FACTORIES . THREATENED. St. Petersburg, November 22. The new Admiralty yards on the Neva are closed, the workmen having struck for an eight hours' day. Owing to the workmen quitting the chief i industrial works in St. "Petersburg * v after working eight hours, employers ■» have determined to close a fortnight hence unless the week of sixty hours is resumed. STRIKERS SEIZE A NEWSPAPER. PUBLISH SOCIALIST PROPAGANDA. St. Petersburg, November 22." J The strikers seized the offices of the Novo Vremya on the night of the 18th inst. and brought out a Sunday issue, ; of which';-.. they distributed 35,000 copies. The issue contained much seditious propaganda. They retained possession of the office for twelve hours. DISAFFECTION IN THE ARMY. SYMPATHY WITH THE WORKERS. St. Petersburg, November 22. There are reports of disaffection among the troops at St. Petersburg. An officer of the guards states that the intervention of the workmen on behalf of the naval and military mutineers at Cronstadt has produced a deplorable .effect on the morale of the soldiers and is causing the Com-mander-in-Chief the greatest anxiety. Other, officers fear that the army will join the strikers if the mutineers are sentenced to death. Count de Witte has threatened to dismiss any officials who join the unions.