ANARCHY AND REFORM.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5735, 2 November 1905, Page 5

ANARCHY AND REFORM.

CABLE KEWS.

UNITED Pr.CSS ASSOCIATION. —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT.

THE POSITION IN RUSSIA. RIOTS. STRIKES, AND PROMISES OF LIBERTY. PROCESSION IN THE CAPITAL. A GREAT DEMONSTRATION. TRIUMPH OF THE PROLETARIAT PROCLAIMED. (Received November 1, 9.51 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG. November 1. An immense procession of workmen, students, and school boys, carrying red flags made a demonstration on the Nevski Prospect, singing the “Marseillaise” and revolutionary songs. They compelled the police to remove their cape, and made tho troops salute the red flags. Tho procession stopped at the point where the massacre took place on “Red Sunday” (January 22nd), where they uncovered their heads. They sang .a hymn for the dead, with impressive effect, outside the offices of the General Staff, and again sang a dirge outside tho University, which was decorated with red flags.

The orators proclaimed tho triumph of the proletariat and the downfall of the autocracy. They demanded the withdrawal of tho troops from the capital, the release of all political prisoners, and tho retirement of General Trepoff. The police and troops did not interfere, even when the Emperor was contemptuously advised to abdicate and retire to London, or when the crowd destroyed the Russian flag carried by patriotic demonstrators. A bomb thrown at the troops guarding the Technological Institute at St. Petersburg killed eeveral Cossacks and wounded others. All factories, theatres and schools are closed at Reval. Tho Cossacks and notice resent the manifesto.

They have provoked disorders at Odessa, Poltava, and Kishineff, killing many without provocation. INCENDIARISM RAMPANT AT MOSCOW. A REIGN OF TERROR. ST. PETERSBURG, October, 31. Incendiarism is rampant m Moscow. Soldiers have encamped in the precincts of tho Kremlin, being afraid to occupy the barracks lost the buildings should be burned. Bands of roughs are plundering deserted private flats. Only large detachments of troops dare to venture into tho streets.

POLANB EXCITED. DEMANDS OF THE STRIKERS. ACTIVITY OF THE REVOLUTIONARIES. BRUTAL CONDUCT OF COSSACKS. MANY PERSONS KILLED. ST. PETERSBURG. November 1. The people of Poland continue to bo wildly excited. The employees on the Warsaw-Vienna railway intend to remain on strike until the Government grants self-govern-ment to Poland,, and an amnesty to political prisoners, and permits the use of tho Polish language. Cossacks and Lancers attacked and dispersed a great revoluntionary demonstration in the streets of Warsaw. Citizens are forbidden to leave their homes after 8 p.m. under pain of arrest. , The minors in the Sosnowia district and at Warsaw struck work. They compelled compositors to stop setting up the Czar’s manifesto, and mad© them set revolutionary songs, which the strikers then sang in the .streets. Much fighting has taken, place at Lodz, wdiere tho Polish and Jewish Socialists have resolved to continue the strike. A company of infantry refused to fire on a students’ procession. The soldiers were arrested. Many persons were killed and wounded at Lodz owing to the-Governor ordering tho troops to mercilessly suppress revolutionary meetings. FIERCE FIGHTING AT ODESSA. WOMEN AND CHILDREN BADLY TREATED. ' ST. PETERSBURG, November 1. 'After a demonstration at Odessa over the publication of tho Czar’s manifesto .fifty workmen—who, it is supposed, wore disguised as policemen—assisted roughs to plunder the Jewish shops. When the crowd tried to assist the shopkepers, Cossacks .charged, killing and wounding many. Nino hundred students then secured arms. Fierce fighting continues. The Cossacks continue to brutally illtreat peaceful residents and pillage their homes. They heat some of the residents to death, and dragged women and children to prison, subjecting them to shocking treatment. The Cossacks also frequently fired upon the funeral processions of their own victims, and upon Red Cross detachments. Sixty-three youths and girls are missing at Odessa. THE SITUATION IN FINLAND. TROOPS WILL NOT FIRE ON THE PEOPLE. ST. PETERSBURG, November 1. The troops at Helsingfors (capital of Finland) refused to firo on the people. At a great meeting of citizens reso-

lutions were passed demanding the cessation of Russian oppression, and the convocation of the Diet to prepare a scheme for a freely-elected National Assembly ; also freedom for the press. Tho Governor-General assured the citizens that he had just received a telegram abrogating all dictatorship, and a decree summoning the Diet. THE REPORTED BLACK SEA MUTINY. OFFICIALS PROFESS IGNORANCE. ST. PETERSBURG, November 1. The St. Petersburg officials profess to bo unaware of any mutiny of the Black Sea fleet or the murder of Admirals Birilcff and Chuknin, reported yesterday to have taken place at Sameim, on tho southern shores of tho Black Sea. PARTIAL TERMINATION OF RAILWAY STRIKE. AN OFFER BY THE KAISER. ST. PETERSBURG, October 31. Tho strike on tho Moscow-St. Petersburg, Moscow-Kazan, and MoscowArchangel railway lines has -terminated. In order to maintain communication between the Courts at ■ Potsdam and Petcrhof, the Czar accepted the Kaiser 6 offer of tho services of the third and fifth Gorman torpedo boat divisions to convoy despatches during the strike between Memel (a seaport in tho province of East Prussia) and Petcrhof. SOUNT DE WITTE HOPEFUL. THE NEW CABINET. RESIGNATION OF M. POBIEDONOSTEFF. (Received November 1. 10.40 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, November 1. Count do Witte appears confident tliat he will be able to guide the nation tranquilly along the paths of constitutionalism. The Cabinet tentatively consists of the foil caving;— Prince Alexis Obolensky—Minister of t!ie Interior. M. Romanoff— Minister of Finance. M. Koni (an able jurist and Senator) —Minister of Justice. Count Lamsdorff of Foreign Affairs. General Roedger—Minister of War. Admiral Avelan —Minister of Marine. M. Krosovsky—President. Count do Witte holds no portfolio. M. Pobiedonosteff, Procurator of the Holy Synod, has resigned. THE CZAR’S MANIFESTO. ITS RECEPTION AT VARIOUS CENTRES. FRANTIC DELIGHT AT ODESSA. i CHEERING AT ST. PETERSBURG. ST. PETERSBURG, November 1. Tile people of Odessa are frantically delighted at tho Czar’s manifesto instructing his Ministers to immediately initiate political reforms of an important and comprehensive nature. Twenty thousand citizens demanded a speech from tho Governor, who diplomatically called for cheers'for tho Constitution, promising to liberate all pel-sons who had been arrested by the Cossacks. The manifesto was received with shouts of joy in St.-Petersburg, Warsaw. and hut the workmen are irritated at the absence of amnesty. Demonstrations were made in St. Petersburg throughout tho night. Processions ’"ere formed, and, with red flags flying, marched through* the streets, cheering the manifesto. Count de Witte, in his recommendations to the Czar, emphasised the need of equalisation of all Russians before tho law, irrespective of religions and nationalities.

Tho employees of tho Imperial Bank struck, but resumed work when they heard that the Czar had signed a Constitution. LONDON, October 31. The St. Petersburg correspondent of “The Times” states that only a few thousand people are aware of the manifesto. It is doubtful, the correspondent adds, whether tho revolutionary, leaders who demand universal suffrage and a constituent assembly will be satisfied with tho Czar’s concessions. Reuter’s St. Petersburg correspondent reports that the Czar has charged Count do Witte to arrange for the unification of the work of tho various Ministers of State as a preliminary to sanctioning a draft law creating a Council of Ministers. TOO LATE. AN AVOWAL OP WEAKNESS. LONDON, November 1. The St. Petersburg correspondent of “ The Times ” says the constitution has come too late, and has fallen flat. It has satisfied nobody except the very moderate section of tho community. The bulk of the people of St. Petersburg regard the manifesto as an avowal of weakness, and an incitement to further agitation. COUNT DE WITTE’S ADVICE. ST. PETERSBURG, November L, That portion of the Char’s manifesto directing the Government to abstain from any interference in the elections to the Duma, and setting forth the principles which should bo embodied in the exercise of executive power, were recommendations made by Count de Witte to the Czar, who approved them for the guidance of the Government. EFFECT ON THE FINANCES. LONDON, October 31. Russian and other securities have improved on the Stock Exchange as the result of tho manifesto. ST. PETERSBURG, October 31. Foreign financiers return hero in a fortnight to resume the loan negotiations.