DISTURBANCES IN RUSSIA.
CABLE NEYS.
ITEITKD rUESS ASSOCIATION. —BT ELECTHIC rr.ESS ASSOCIATION.
ANARCHY AT RIGA. THE STRIKE MOVEMENT. FIGHTING WITH COSSACKS. ST. PETERSBURG, October 25. Anarchy prevails at Riga—the capital of the government of Livonia, and one of the chief cities of the Empire. Many bloody collisions have taken place. A railway cashier was murdered in the rtroots and robbed of twenty-four thousand roubles. Tho Government spirit-shops in Riga wore sacked. Further disturbances in different provinces are reported. At Ekatorinoslav. in South Russia, tho strikers eroded barricades to protect themselves. The Cossacks fired on them, killing and wounding many. Tho Polish railwayman have joined in the strike, and railway communication between St. Petersburg and Warsaw has been stopped.
THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR. ST. PETERSBURG, October 25.
OwingNto the dislocation of traffic, caused by tho railway strike, Sir Charles Hardingc, British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, who is about to start on leave of absence, was unable to leave St. Petersburg by train. Ho is now awaiting the arrival of a steamer.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5730, 27 October 1905, Page 5
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