THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5732, 30 October 1905, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.

CABLE NEWS.

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CRITICAL POSITION. EXTENSION OF THE RAILWAY STRIKE. ■ AUTHORITIES POWERLESS. THE CZAR PREPARED TO ESCAPE. (Received October 29, 4.35 p.m.) LONDON, October 28. The St. Petersburg correspondent of ‘Tho Times” is informed that tho revolutionaries intend to resort to arms to-day. ST. PETERSBURG, October 28. Tho wave of revolt is still sweeping through Russia. It is estimated that 750,000 railway men arc out on strike. Traffic on all tho principal railway linos, except Finland, is paralysed. Tho Siberian lines nro also affected. Tho authorities arc dismayed, owing to threats, and refrained from interference at meetings held at tho University last night. All the machine guns protecting tho Czarskoo Solo Palace have been brought into St. Petersburg. Tho Czar will start for Denmark if necessary. Steam is now being kept' up on tho Imperial yacht, and on warships which will attend her on tho voyage. General Trcpoff, the Governor-Gene-ral, has issued a proclamation to tho troops and police to act most vigorously, always using hall cartridge. Vast revolutionary meetings were held in St. Petersburg. The sentiment, “We must meet force by force,” was enthusiastically applauded.

STERN ORDERS. PROCLAMATIONS BY GOVERNORS. AGITATORS TO BE SHOT. ST. PETERSBURG, October 28. Tho Governor of Warsaw has issued a manifesto, stating that every agitator caught carrying arms will bo instantly shot. The Governor of Lodz has ordered all officers, in tho event of disturbances, to act without mercy. A predamation by the Governor of Moscow announces that troops have been posted in all parts of tho city for the protection of the peaceable portion of the community. Tho troopg" will fire ball cartridge in -the event of tho slightest sign of criminal intent.

THE STRIKE EXTENDING. GREAT CITIES IN DARKNESS. NEWSPAPERS SUSPEND PUBLICATION. ST. PETERSBURG, October 28. Traffic on the Russian section of tho Finnish railway is suspended. Tho employees on the Central Asian railway have struck work. Tho tramway services between St. Petersburg and Moscow have stopped. Moscow and parts of St. Petersburg aro without gas and electricity. No newspapers are published in St. Petersburg. Earnestness and orderliness have characterised public meetings held at the universities. General Trepoff prohibits meetings in St. Petersburg, except at a few appointed places, and then under strict Government supervision. Any infringement of this rule render's the 'president of tho meeting liable to heavy penalties, and those attending are liable to a month’s imprisonment and heavy fine.

Tho people of St. Petersburg openly deride General Trepoff’s to tho troops to fire ball cartridge. Twenty representatives of tho Revolutionary Committee have been arrested for summoning tho St. Petersburg banks to close.

A BULLION STRIKERS. OFFICIALS ABANDON THEIR POSTS. POLICE WANT MORE PAY. LONDON, October 27. Tho St. Petersburg correspondent of “Tho Times” telegraphs that there are one million striker's in Russia. Officials of tho Ministry of Ways and Communication have abandoned their posts. Tho police demand increased pay. General Trepoff told the colonels that they were empowered to fire on any gathering of upwards of Six people. Thera are sixty thousand troops in the St. Petersburg city, divided into four sections, with a division of infantry, with horses and gun.

SERIOUS RIOTS AT KHARKOFF. STUDENTS CREATE DISORDER. THE RED FLAG HOISTED. ST. PETERSBURG, October 27. Matters assumed a serious turn at Kharkoff. Three thousand students, after pillaging tho armourers’ business places, took possession of tho Cathedral, University, and Courts of Justice. They barricaded tho windows and doors, burnt tho archives, and then hoisted red flags on the buildings.

. Troops wore called out and surrounded tho place. Martial law was thereupon proclaimed. and a Committee of Public Safety enrolled, consisting of civilians and militia, to guard the town. Eventually the harricaders were induced to surrender their arms,, and evacuate on condition that they were not arrested or prosecuted. THE KNIAZ POTEMKIN. BLOWN UP BY HER CREW. (Received October 29, 4.29 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, October 28. It is reported that Admiral Birilcft Blurted with the Black Sea squadron

for Anatolia (presumably in connection with the dispute between the Porte ami tho Powers regarding Macedonia) without the Kniaz Potemkin — tho battleship on which there was mutiny last Juno. The crew thereupon blow tho vessel ul’. MANY WOUNDED. ST. PETERSBURG, October 28. Many persons were wounded at the dispersal of a meeting which was bbing held at Poltava. BRITISH STEAMERS LEAVE. ST. PETERSBURG, October 28. At Novocherkask and Odessa, where the expert trade is stopped, twelve British steamers which were waiting to 'bo loaded have left port empty.