INTERNAL RUSSIA.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1716, 18 January 1905, Page 19

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, January 9. M. Pobiedonosteff, the ProcuratorGeneral of the Holy Synod, has warned the Czar that if he breaks his oath to preserve the autocracy everyone will violate their oaths, and cause ruin to the Church and State. M. Ivantzky, a nobleman, on the pretext of presenting a petition, tried to assassinate a Chief of Police in his office at ESkaterinoslav. The shot missed. Ivantzky has been arrested. The work of mobilisation at Odessa has proved a fiasco. A few score of reservists have been collected by force out of two thousand. Only one hundred and eighty have , been enrolled voluntarily. LONDON, January 10. Extraordinary rumours are current at iLodz (Poland) about rioting at St. Petersburg. Hundreds of people are supposed to have been killed in the streets. A concert in aid of the Lodz Red Cross branch was abandoned, as no audience put in an appearance, owing to the general uneasiness. ST. PETERSBURG, January 10. Delegates of all the zemstvos adhering to the common organisation of zemstvos are to meet at Moscow in February. Speeches at a dinner of the Literary and Artistic Club at Moscow emphasised Russia’s perilous position. The speakers expressed the hope that the sun of freedom and sociaL equality would soon rise. Seven thousand St. Petersburg labour unionists demand the reinstatement of men who were dismissed from the Put aloft works, on the ground that they belonged to a union. If the men are not reinstated the union declines to remain responsible for order among St. Petersburg workmen.

ST. PETERSBURG, January 11. Serious riots have occurred at Baku, on the Caspian Sea, where a number of oil-workers have been on strike.

Twenty of the rioters were killed. In the course of the disturbance a hundred oil towers were burned.