DISTURBED RUSSIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5729, 26 October 1905, Page 5

DISTURBED RUSSIA.

CABLE NEWS.

UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. —BY ELECTP.IO TELEGRAPH. —COPTRIOIIT.

AGITATION INCREASING. DISLOCATION OF RAILWAYS. WORKERS UNDER ARMS. (Received October 25, 10.56 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, October 25. Tbo stoppage of the Nikolai railway deprives St. Petersburg of seventy train-loads of provisions daily. Seven thousand strikers at Moscow damaged tho railway to St. Petersburg, and also aqueducts supplying a portion of Moscow with water. While a massed body of armed workmen was demonstrating at Ivharkoif it was charged by a troop of cavalry and dispersed. Disturbances, accompanied by looting, have occurred at Ekatenncslav. Frosh reform strikes have, thrown idle thirty-six thousand workers at Lodz and Pabianizo, in Poland.

A deputation of railway men waited on the Government, and in a threatening manner demanded universal suffrage.

REFORMS PROMISED. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. THE GOVERNMENT TEMPORISING. (Received October 25, 10.3 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, October 25. Tho Government intends to grant liberty of the press, the right of association in public meeting, and to endow peasants with State lands. Apparently, it is not intended to voluntarily grant a constitution before the meeting of tho Duma. It is hoped that the concessions made will allay tho agitation for a constitution without tho extension of tho suffrage or endorsement of tho legislative character of tho Duma. The indications are, however, the other way. The St. Petersburg correspondent of tho “Daily Telegraph” states that the Czar has resolved on what is virtually a constitutional regime, with Count Wltto as president with large powers.