THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5737, 4 November 1905, Page 5

THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA.

CABLE NEWS.

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CONTINUED DISORDER. GENERAL TREPOFF IN THE ASCENDANCY. COUNT DE AVITTE’S DIFFICULTIES. FURTHER OUTBREAKS OF AIOB VIOLENCE. (Received November 3, 11.22 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, November 3. There has been a recrudescence of repressive measures in St. Petersburg. The universities and academics have again been closed. Demonstrations arc forbidden, and cavalry drive tho people off tho pavements, using their sabres without tho slightest provocation. The violence on the part of tho police and militia is attributed to the Court reactionaries and bureaucrats, who arc seeking to convince the governing authorities that concessions moan excesses all over Russia.

Reports have been received of further sanguinary outbreaks of mob violence, Jews being the principal victims.

The military never prevent attacks, and frequently participate in them. There is a widespread belief that General Trepoff has regained ascendancy over the Czar. General Trepoff is suspected of trying to trip Count do Witte by alternately tolerating and suppressing the disorder's. So far Count do Witte has been unable to complete his Cabinet. GENERAL STRIKE TO CEASE. MOSCOW RAILWAY MEN OUT AGAIN. LONDON, November 3A lato St. Petersburg telegram states that tho Strike Committee has decided that tho general strike shall end at noon today. Reuter’s Agency also reports that the committee has decided to terminate the general strike today. Tho Moscow railway employees, after resuming work, again struck yesterday. PRESS, CENSORSHIP ABOLISHED. AN APPEAL FOR PATIENCE. (Received November 4, 0.12 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, November 3.

Press censorship has been abolished at St. Petersburg. It is intended to amnesty all political prisoners except those guilty of murder or attempts to murder. The Government has appealed to the people to bo patient whilo tho now regime is being prepared. An enormous amount of legislation is ' necessary for administration measures. Meanwhile tho old laws must remain in force, though they will be applied in the spirit of tho Czar’s manifesto. MARTIAL LAW AT ODESSA. MACHINE GUNS IN USE. COSSACKS' KILLED BY STUDENTS. ST. PETERSBURG, November 3. Street-fighting and looting, especially in the Jewish quarter, continued at Odessa through most of Thursday, until martial law was proclaimed. The Governor threatens to use field guns, to destroy any house from which a shot is fired. The troops at Odessa are using numerous machine guns. Riots continue, though in mitigated form. Tho Jews, who exhibited desperate bravery, suffered terribly. Students killed a hundred Cossacks by sniping and by means of bombs. TERRIBLE SCENES AT KAZAN. “WANTON BUTCHERY OP CITIZENS.’’

PEOPLE SHOT DOWN BY COSSACKS. LONDON, November 2. Reuter’s correspondent supplies some revolting particulars of the scenes of plunder and massacre which occurred at Kazan (in Central Russia), apparently on the nights of 28th and 29th October.

Tho Cossacks and police, says tike correspondent, were let loose, and permitted to kill and plunder at -will. They pillaged many shops, and fired indiscriminately wherever they saw a light in windows. Peaceable pedestrians were shot down, and one street was converted into a shambles, pools of blood dyeing the snow opposite ecclesiastical buildings. The population became wild with rage at the wanton butchery of citizens, and the municipality made an emphatic protest to tho Governor, who stated that the Chief of Police had resigned, and that tho Cossacks had since heen confined to the barracks. Ho authorised tho civic militia to preserve order, and released the political prisoners.

The crowd removed the arms from the police headquarters for the use of tho town militia.

MASSACRE AVERTED. A GENERAL’S PRESENCE OP MIND. ■ ST. PETERSBURG, November 2. A crowd at daybreak serenaded the Prefect of Moscow, singing dirges as a reminder of the slaughter of unoffending citizens. The troops suddenly appeared, and were preparing to fir© when General Ludnufr, showing his uniform, threw

himself in front of the rifles, daring them to fire, and thus prevented a massacre. . .

Many collisions have occurred at Aloscow between the revolutionaries and so-called patriots. Uno pro-Govcrnmental partisan, a general, while leading a so-called loyalist procession, organised by the police, was shot dead.

BRUTAL DECEPTION OF A DEPUTATION. ST. PETERSBURG, November 2. The Chief of Police at Poltava summoned a deputation to witness the liberation of political prisoners. Cossacks suddenly attacked tho deputation, killing some, and severely wounding twenty-eight. Fatal encounters have also occurred at Bielostok and Minsk. THE NATIONAL FEELING IN ’ FINLAND. ST. PETERSBURG, November 2. Authority in many of the towns in Finland has been transferred to the citizen guard. Finnish flags and escutcheons have replaced tho Russian emblems on tho public buildings. LONDON, November 2. Reuter's correspondent states that all Finland is in a state of revolt, though tho crowds arc most orderly. Tho Governor-General promises that tho troops shall not interfere with peaceable people. Tho Social Democrats demand tho immediate summoning of a Constituent Assembly based on universal suffrage. PERSECUTION OF JEWS. ST. PETERSBURG, November 2. Anti-Scmitio outbreaks have occurred at Ni]ni-Novgorod, Rostoff, Kherson, and Vitebsk. Many people wore killed. COSSACKS JOIN THE PEOPLE IN JEW-BAITING. MANY KILLED. (Received November 4, 0.20 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, November 3. Cossacks at Rostoff joined with the mob in shooting Jews and pillaging their shops and houses. Many wore killed. A crowd at Khereon, carrying the Czar's portrait and national flags, first pillaged Jewish shops and thou attended service at the Cathedral. THE BLACK SEA FLEET. ST. PETERSBURG, November 3. The Black Sea fleet (which was reported to have mutinied at Samsun and killed Admirals Birileff and Chuknin) has arrived at Sebastopol, Admiral Birileff commanding.