RUSSIA

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13049, 14 December 1905, Page 5

RUSSIA

MUTINY IN SEVERAL PLACES.

GARRISON TROOPS' GRIEVANCES. •

GENERAL STRIKE POSTPONED. .

DOMESTIC SERVANTS GO OUT.

THE PEASANTS' OUTBREAK.

A FIND OF MONEY.

NUMEROUS ARRESTS MADE;

THE MILITARY REVOLT.

THE HARBIN DISORDERS. SOME DESPERATE FIGHTING. -UOIJBIOOSST'SBBJ,!—qdEjSsiax £z ' St. Petersburg, December 12. General Macdowjloff, commander of cavalry, on arriving at Harbin recently to suppress the mutiny, ordered his men to burn several barracks and expel the mutineers. The latter mingled with the terror-stricken inhabitants. The cavalry slaughtered 300 persons,, most of them being mutineers. The mutineers were shortly afterwards reinforced, and, using machine guns, killed many of the cavalry. The trouble had recommenced when the refugees who brought the details left Harbin.

London, December 12. Two sotnias of Cossacks at Moscow have demanded permission to return to their homes. The troops at Warsaw have again refused to fire on a revolutionary procession. '■ Two hundred soldiers at Kushka, in Transcaucasia, have attended a railway men's strike meeting, which decided to remove the military authorities from the fortress, and replace them with revolutionaries. Three of the ringleaders of these soldiers have been arrested.

December 13, 11.30 p.m.) St. Petersburg, December 13. The officers and men of all arms at) Moscow, including the .Cossacks, have decided to prepare a general list of the grievances of the troops in garrison.

(Received December 13, 11.20 p.m.) St. Petersburg, December 13. Count tie Witte's bold repressive measures have compelled the labour chiefs to delay the proposed general strike to a more convenient moment; meanwhile they will prepare for an armed rising. Twenty thousand messages await despatch at St. Petersburg telegraph office. The banks still employ messengers to the frontier.

(Received December 13, 9.21 p.m.) St. Petersburg, December 13. All the domestic servants, the coachmen, and the cabmen of Warsaw have gone on strike.

ACTS OF BRIGANDAGE.St. Petersburg, December 12. A body of peasants in Livonia have attacked a detachment of troops, < seized their arms, and then sacked the homes of the landowners. They then captured a train, and escaped with the booty they had collected.

ENGLISH COINS HIDDEN. London, December 12. Money amounting to £1000 in English gold and silver has been unearthed at a building in Cronstadt, in Russia, which during the war was was used as a hospital. The money has not been claimed.