THE STRIKES IN RUSSIA

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8957, 5 December 1905, Page 2

THE STRIKES IN RUSSIA

[Br Electric Telegraph.— CorTKioHT.] (Per Press Association.) Received December 4, at 9.49 p.m. St. Petersburg, December 4. The workmen at Kief? attacked the hooligans. Simultaneously the sappers mutinied and attacked the Cossacks. Scores were killed and wounded. Martial law. lias been proclaimed. The Eighth Regiment of Dragoons at Wilkowiszk threatened to kill their officers unless paid more. The Fourteenth Dragoons at Ostrolenka also mutinied.

The post and telegraph strikers at. War saw are pouring oil and vitriol on the letter boxes.

At Kharkoff and Nicolaieff the railway men have struck, and declare that the Government has squandered the railway men's pension funds.

A general Tailway strike is expected today. The Jews at Odessa implore the Powers to remonstrate with St, Petersburg and to prevent renewed and more terrible massacres.

Proclamations have been circulated to most of the regiments at Odessa, calling on the soldiers to exterminate the Jews and destroy the newspaper offices on the ground that both accuse tho military of massacring. Received December 4, at 11.56 p.m. St. Petersburg, December 4. General Kaulbars, according to the Jews informed tho Press that the troops were incensed at the attitude of the Jews and newspapers. The officers were burning with revenge and intended to purge Odessa of the Jews. He therefore was unable to guarantee that a disturbance would not recur.

The Finnish telegraphists have struck, out of sympathy with their Russian confreres.

the business men of Russia realise that a supreme crisis has arrived. All commercial and financial affairs are paralysed. The Socialist parties, at a joint meeting, decided that an armed rising was the only resource. ,

Berne, December 4. By an explosion in a room occupied by Russians in Geneva several were injured. I lie police discovered some bombs, forced passports, and a secret printing press ° Received December 5, at 7.27 a.m. St. Petersburg, December 4. J.lie revolutionaries Jiave gained over all the naval battalions in St. Petersburg ihese are disarmed, but are almost out of control.

At a meeting of officers at Tsarskoe Selo it was resolved not to firo on Hie crowd if ordered. Quickfirers are now trained on tlio Horso Guards barracks. There is a precipitate exodus from Russia of all able to leave. Several embassies luive been informed of a military outbreak m the Baltic provinces. The reservists at Reval are in open mutmy - i m J. lie bankers at St. Petersburg are' husbanding their resources and a money famine is threatened.

The Union of Unions and the workmen's organisations are discussing a generai strike. Additional troops have been brought to St. Petersburg. Received December 5, at 9.35 a.m.

London, December S. Reuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg telegraphing on Saturday says : "Govern" ment authority is almost paralysed, and if exercised will be certain to precipitate civil strife. Owing to hooligans and drunken soldiers it is unsafe to walk the. streets unless armed. No letters have been received since Thursday, and financial losses are enormous."

Received December 5, at 9.28 a.m. St. Petersburg, December 4. The post and telegraph strike has spread to the railways, and Odessa is isolated. The city is full of time-expired reservists, and there are many thousands of unemployed.

The Fifth Pontoon Battalion revolted at Ivieff, and joined the riotous strikers. The troops fired, and 70 of the rioters were killed, 300 wounded, and 200 arrested.

The Russ calls upon the people to organise a Government of their own siaco Ministry had brought about anarchy. Twenty-five men of the Probrashinskt Regiment of Guards have been arrested, 15 being imprisoned in the fortress of St. Peter and Paul.

Encouraged by the Sevastopol incident, the reactionaries are urging the Czar to rely on force. It is generally expected that Count de Witte will resign and that a Dictator will be appointed. M. Durnovo urges the arrest of 3000 Intellectuals and the expulsion of the work, men's leaders.