Russian Upheaval.

Opunake Times, Volume XXII, Issue 819, 15 December 1905, Page 4

Russian Upheaval.

OHUECHES DESECRATED. LANDOWNERS MURDERED. St. Petersburg, December 12. ’ Many of the Russian telegraphists have resumed work. Peasant raids are increasing in audacity. Churches in the Baltic provinces have been desecrated, and many landowners murdered. t ‘ London, November 12. Count de Witte has informed the Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg correspondent that unless the elements of society offered a moral resistance to the advance of anarchy, and cooperated with the Government in - executing the Czar’s manifesto, the situation would become truly disquietening and serious. Personally,, he still entertained some hope, but the community was liable to be hypnotised by the revolutionists, who were resolute, united and persevering. If, said Count de Witte, anarchy continued, the nation might demand a forcible suppression of the revolution, and then the manifesto might be 1 repealed or suspended. lu that event he would retire. St. Petersburg, December 12. The peasants at Livonia attacked a detachment of troops, seized the arms, attacked their protectors’ estates, and then capturing a train, escaped with their booty. A thousand pounds in English gold and silver was unearthed at Kronstadt, which was used as a hospital during the war. The money has not been claimed.

December, 13. General Macdowiloff, upon arriving at Harbin, sent men to burn several barracks and expel the mutineers. Tho latter mingled with the terrorstricken inhabitants and the cavalry slaughtered 800, mostly mutineers. The latter were reinforced and used machine guns, killing many of the •avalry. / The trouble had resumed when the refugees (who brought details) left Harbin. Two sotnias of Cossacks at Moscow demanded permission to return to their homes. Troops at Warsaw have again refused to fire at a revolutionary procession. , 0 Two hundred soldiers at Kusbka, Trans-Oaspia, attended the railway men’s strike meeting, which decided to remove the military authorities fortress and replace it by revolutionaries. Three of the ringleaders have been arrested and wholesale arrests have been made at Moscow s including the members’ cotnmitte of the Postal and Telegraphic Union.